misheard lyrics

I had a friend who thought the Cold Chisel song "cheap wine" went like this - cheap wine and a female goat.

** Sarah **

My sisters & I used to get the lyrics to songs mixed up all the time.
The GoGo's song "Our lips are sealed" we thought was "Alex the seal".
Billy Oceans song "When the goin gets tough" we thought was "Well go and get stuffed".(have a listen to it. It may be right!!!!)
The Australian anthem "Our home is girt by sea" we thought was "our home is dirt fly sea".

Bec :o)

our school song had a verse in Latin that said..
Lux Caet Lux Vestra... something like that anyway.... I always thought it said *Lets look at Sandra* She was my friend's sister so I always looked at her. :-)

wombat

'til very recently i thought the lyrics to the song 'everyday i write the book' were actually 'everyday i rock the boat', and that the part in madonnas like a prayer that says 'let the choir sing' was 'laugh out quietly'. doesnt make much sense but many songs dont!

bek x

My friend thought that the lyrics to an Elvis song was:And more she goes,instead of:I`m all shook up.

Akasha

I used to think the Tom Jones song "A Boy from Nowhere" was called...."A Boy From Norway"! I felt flattered - being Norwegian....

Steinar (OGAE)

A friend of mine was to write down an old Don Gibson song for me that says Everybody's going out and having fun, I,m just a fool for staying home and having none, and he wrote: I'm just a fool for staying home and have a nun. Much better if you ask me.

magne

Prince had the hit " Little Red Corvette " I sung the smash..." Pay the Rent Collect " These kids today

WILL 2 B

I used to believe the lyrics to "Lay Down Sally" by Eric Clapton were "Way Down South"

Kat

Kenny Rogers "Lucille". "Four hungry children and a crop in the field" became "four hundred children had a crap in the field".

Doug

I used to think that the lyrics to Crystal Gayle's Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue were don't you make my brothers blue.

It made sense to me, and stayed with me for years.

Q

My cousin (he´s 10), still thinks that the title of "I´m like a bird" (that song of Nelly Furtado),is something like "I mac a be...". I really don´t understand what he means with it.

Diana

believed the song from Garth..Im Shameless ..was really saying...Im shavin...

Kristin

For some time, I thought Eric Clapton was singing "Captain Midnight" (in the song "After Midnight.)

Anon

I always believed that Kenny Rogers' 'Lucille' went

"you picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a box of oatmeal..."

I hated oatmeal and could understand why the children were hungry!

Anon

An older neighbor got me into the Violent Femmes. Until I was in college I thought, "I fall down dead, she never sees the tears I cry" was actually "I fall down STAIRS, she'll never see the tears I cry."

You know, how tragic? I fell down the stairs and she didn't even care!

Anon

For ages I thought the lyrics to "I shot the sherif was: "Hey, chocolate cherry" I never could understand what the deputy had to do it...

Tone

a case study of a child with an active imagination and waxy ears.
My little sister has gradually disabused me of these notions, between peals of derisory hysterical laughter.
I believe in mackerel ... where ya from, you sexy thing
(Hot Chocolate)
Sue Lawley...Sue Lawley...Sue Lawley
(The Police)
Beelzebub has a table for a sideboard
(Queen)
Poppadom Bridge, I'm in trouble deep
(Madonna)
In the western sky, the kilted chauffeur
(Sisters of Mercy)

oh yes, and she almost wet herself when i pronounce Jamiroquai as 'jammyrokey'. That doesn't really count as a childhood belief, though, because it was, erm, very recent.

abigail

When we were little, my brother sang "Volare," at top volume with the lyric "Oh-Lah-Tay." He sang it all summer and nearly drove the family nuts.

I spent much of my childhood wondering what a "donserly light" was in the Star Spangled Banner.

BJ

The refrain of "Flashdance" is "Take your passion and make it happen." I used to sing "Take your pants off and make it happen." I guess I had a dirty mind as a kid.

Andrea