I always thought the Kenny Roger's "You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille" song said "four hundred children and a crop in the field" (instead of four hungry children). I thought it was a little bit over the top to have a story with quite so many children!
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I don't know quite where I got it, but, in the song "All For You" by Sister Hazel, I hear, "Toucan Sam, it's all for you." Follow your nose, kids, follow your nose.
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You know that song "We Built This City on Rock and Roll"? Well, I always thought the line, "Marconi plays the mamba," was "My pony plays the mamba." I like it better my way.
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My boyfriend always thought the song in the film Greece said "I got shoes, thet're multiplying" He imagined a wardrobe with hundreds of shoes spilling out!
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white room, eric clapton.
i swear he said 'that's one dickhead.'
never occured to me about a platform ticket til i just read someone else misheard it...
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I always thought song went "I Believe In Malcolm" instead of "I Believe in Miracles"
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My friend's little brother, Drew, thought the song "You're the One that I Want" from Grease was "You're the one in the boat".
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In the Brittany Spear's song my daughter thought she said, "My onlyness is healing me, I must confess I silly leave, when your not with me I use my mind this is a sign, don't hit me baby one more time." She was five at the time!
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I used to believe that Spinal Tap was a real band. I was 19 and gutted when I found out.
i used to believe that when they played songs on the radio that the pop stars would come into the studio and play all the songs live.
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When my sister and I were little, my father used to drive us around, listening to cheesey 80's rock. Our favorite song to sing along to was "Egg nog, egg nog...don't dream it's over" which we would BELT, at the top of our lungs, every time the song came on. Not until I was in high school did I realize that Egg Nog was, in fact, "Hey now, hey now...don't dream it's over," by Crowded House.
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When I was younger I would listen to the radio a lot. One station often broadcasted live from different clubs where they were playing remixes of songs. I always thought that singers had to go perform live at these clubs and sing the songs differently to the different beats. When I got a little older I told my Dad what i used to think, and told him I now knew what they did... I now knew they just hired other singers to sounds like the famous people to sing those songs live. I was thirteen or fourteen before i realized the truth!
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Actually this was my daughter's belief as a 10 year old. We moved to Saudi Arabia while the Iran-Iraq war was going on. We listened to oldies quite a bit. She thought when the Beach Boys sang "Ba-ba-ba, ba-Barbara Ann" they were singing "Bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb Iran". I think she believed it up until a few years ago.
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When i was about 13 i heard this song by Earth Wind & Fire, called "Let's Groove tonight"
I thouroughly enjoyed it and kept remembering the part: Mister Scrooge! get you to move.
I found out 4 years later (17 years old now and desperately searching for that really cool song) that the actual words were: Let this groove! get you to move
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When I was wee, in the 60s, my parents took the family to sing-alongs many times. One favorite was Darlin' Clementine. I thought it was a sad song--I didn't get sarcasm at the time. But the worst was I thought the line in the chorus "Dreadful sorry" meant someone named Dredful was sorry for doing something wrong. Since She was "lost and gone forever" I thought the horrible thing he did was lose her (a little baby, I supposed). Maybe there are versions that are truly serious but the lines about kissing and hugging are pretty sarcastic. Maybe those lines aren't original, but thy're the ones I've always heard: In my dreams she still doth haunt me, Robed in garments soaked in brine. Though in life I used to hug her, Now she's dead, I'll draw the line. Repeat chorus How I missed her, how I missed her How I missed my Clementine. So I kissed her little sister, And forgot my Clementine.
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my brother would sing "Because I'm Shaving!!!!!" when the song was "Because I'm Shameless!"
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As I child I never could figure out who this 'Jose' was that people always sang about: "Jose can you see, by the dawnsearly light..."
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when i was young, around 10 and i heard queen's Another one bite's the dust, I thought i was hearing, Another one basta dasta.
Def Lepard's song Pour some sugar on me, was awsome surgar plum day!
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Actually this wasn't such a long time ago, but in that song that says "shake it like a polaroid picture" my friend gen thought it said shake it like a paraplegic. omg. so funny
i used to sing "the book panorama, the book panorama, the book..." it is actually "the funk phenomena"