When I first heard American Pie, I misheard the chorus as "buy, buy me some 'Merican pie". I didn't know why Don McLean couldn't just buy the pie himself.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I swear I heard a Disney Channel/Radio Disney song where the chorus was a repeated “Damn it”— SpengBab
- When I first heard Stawberry Fields Forever, I misheard the lyrics as Strawberry Fields For Trevor.— Matt
- Living near Canada's border without cable, I didn't know I was American. — Romania
- I used to think that the chorus of "mountain song" by jane's addiction was in a different language— nothing'sshocking
- A common misheard lyric in BMTH’s ‘Shadow Moses’ is “THIS IS SANDPIT TURTLE!”— Oli
- i thought in elton john's "tiny dancer'' the chorus was "hold me closer tony danza"— d.a.