music

when my daughter was about 6 years old and was losing her teeth, she thought the song, Little Deuce Coop by the Beach Boys, was Little Loose Tooth.

As a Native Canadian it made me quite happy that our National Anthem stated "our home ON Native land." It wasn't until my last year at University that I finally learned the true verse. "Our home AND Native land." I never much cared for the National Athem afterwards.

I used to believe…

prince had a red cherry parade, jesus was the lord of the dance setee at some happy
clappy christian house party and pearl jam had a glorified virgin on a pelican. nice.

My mom loved Fleetwood Mac when I was little, and I could never understand why she would like a group who sang a song about "parents only love you when they're playing". It was only when I was about 15 that I realized they were saying "Players only love you when they're playing". I used to ask her all the time if she REALLY loved me.

I used to think Sid Vicious was a comic book caracter.I saw him on posters and t-shirts everywhere.But only in low quality black-and-white.I also used to think that he was really scary and really cute.

my older brother was a metalhead and taught me to sing along to "battery" by metallica. one line goes "hungry violence seeker, feeding off the weaker...", but i always thought it was "hunting bob seger". it made sense that the guys in metallica would think bob seger was a wussy.

I always thought that, in that song in Flashdance that goes "Take your passion and make it happen, the lryics went "Take your pants down and make it happen." I got this from my uncle, who used to sing it jokingly, though I didn't know that at the time, when I was very little. I thought this until I was around 13.

Came home to see my brother watching that old Midnight Music show. I asked him who was hosting and he said "Alice Cooper but I haven't seen her yet." I look at the TV and there's Alice and I said that is Alice Cooper. Freaked him out big-time.

Since I never knew the words to the National Anthem, I thought the words were: "Hose can you See..." That's what it sounded like until I asked my mother who Hose was. She laughed and said it's "Oh Say can you see..."

My grandmother used to sing me the Bushel and a Peck song and I thought she made it up for me....I had entirely forgotten that until I read Lucy's post here saying the same thing. Thanks Lucy!

For a long time, I thought the lyric
"Blowing thru the jasmine in my mind" from _Summer Breeze_ by Seals and Crofts was "Blowing through the <strong>jazz mounds</strong> in my mind." I always would wonder what the heck a "jazz mound" was.

More misheard lyrics....

I thought the line in "Doe, a Deer.." went "La, a note to follow song." As in, you use the word la to sing la la la.
I still think it's better that "la, a note to follow so."

i used to think that in the song "ebony and ivory" he was singing "emily, amme-marie, sitting side by side on my piano keyboard". i thought for some reason he'd sat his two little girls on his piano...

My husband has never been very good at getting the lyrics of songs correct, or even products names right (Simmeroff for the vodka and nonfast colour eds for non fast coloureds on the washing machine) but anyhow, one story he told me was on the song Liberator by Spear of Destiny. He would always sing for the chorus at the top of his voice 'I'm a little bit high, a little bit high, a little bit, a little bit' and could not work out why it was called Liberator until some friends corrected him.

Around 1955, at the age of 10, I figured out how phonograph records worked. You dropped that needle, and the star in Hollywood jumped up to the microphone and started singing. As much as I loved Gene Autry, I used to torment him by jumping around on "Here Comes Santa Claus". Sorry, Gene.

When I was younger, I used to think that when the radio played a song, that the performer was in the studio. I wondered how all of those people fit in there.