misheard lyrics

There was a country song that my sister and I heard on the radio that went like this:

It's gonna take a lot of river
to keep this broken heart afloat

We thought it was "to keep this broken artichoke" and we sang it that way until our mom heard us and gave us the correct lyrics.

.-~*FAE*~-.

At university, we over heard a friend of mine singing along to Boy George's "Karma Chameleon" - except she was singing "Come-a, come-a, come-a, come-a, come-a to me, Leon". Which, when you consider that that phrase is the title of the song, is pretty bad. Earlier that term she had cut herself with a spoon. Enough said.

Anon

I used to think the national anthem went "our land is bound with nature strips" instead of natures' gifts. I believed this until i was 14 and our school assembly program contained the real words.

Anon

There's a famous hoe-down song with the words "Where did you come from, Where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eyed Joe..." which I'd heard dozens of times throughout my childhood. Until I was 17 years old, I thought the words were "Where did you come from, 'Gotta Find Joe!"

I still like my version better...who's ever heard of a guy with "cotton eyes" anyway? :)

Jackie F

Util very recently I thought that in the Greese song, the girl sang 'Can you feel my erection' and i used to find it rather odd, her being a girl and all! It actually goes.. 'Can you feel my affection'

Chloé

I believed that the words to 'White Flag' by Dido were "I will go down with this shit, I won't poke my eyes out and surrender. There will be no1 left but my duck" When the actual words were: "I will go down with this ship, I won't poke my hands up and surrender, there will be no white flag above my door". How embarrassing!

Anneliese

Savage Garden had a song. I cannot remember the name. But this what I thought the lyrics were.
Ooh I want you I don't know if I need you Ooh I I'm dying to find Hell.
Real Lyrics.
Oh I want you I don't know if I need you ooh I'm dying to find out

Valerie

when i was little i heard the charlie daniel's song "devil went down to georgia". then i heard it on the radio and i believed the song had been changed because on the cd version he says " i told you once you son of a bitch" and on the radio "he says you son of a gun". this was before i knew about censoring things...

beth

When Macy Gray was big, my sister thought the line in the chorus of her first song 'my world crumbles when you are not near' was 'i blow bubbles when you are not near'

shauna

i used to listen to the song 'man in the moon' and when the line went 'if you believe there is a man in the moon...' i thought it was 'if you believe there is a man in you room'

Kaylee

When I was a child and we drove around Chicago, I first heard the Hall & Oates' song "Maneater" on the car. I thought that Daryl Hall & John Oates said "Oh Michigan!" because I was thinking about Lake Michigan and so.

Anon

I used to believe that the lyrics in Men at Work's "Who Can it be Now" were: "I like it here with my choclate friends" because Dylan said so.

Michael Jensen

I always got the song "I'm a God by Vertical Horizon confused.

their verison:
I'm a God and your a God.
My verison:
Cause your a guy and I'm a guy.

I was like "What that song dont make no sense"!

brenda t.

The line, "Every time you go away, you take a piece of me, with you." My friends and I used to think that it said, "you take a piece of meat with you." Thats romantic. Meat. We were 7, we didnt have a clue. It coulda been meat.

Christa

I used to think the song "Secret Agent Man" was "Secret Asian Man".

Anon

I used to believe that the lyrics "The funk phenomenon" were "My poop is coming on"

Curly

"Bingo Chair and a Rhino" instead of "Big Old Jet Airliner."

"Blinded by the light...Revved up like a douche I got a boner in the night" instead of...what the heck are they saying?

"Super Salad Bar" instead of "Suicide Blonde"

"Secret Asian Man" instead of "Secret Agent Man"

Anon

My friend Connie thought that the Will Smith song "Gettin Jiggie With It" said "Kick a Chicken With It".

Chelsey

Just last year me and a couple of my friends were sitting in the car when the country song 'She's My Kind of Rain' by Tim McGraw came on. I began to sing "She's my Cadillac!" instead of "She's my kind of rain". My friends let me sing the whole song like that before pointing out that i was singing it ALL wrong.
I could actually picture a cadillac on a showroom floor with confetti falling down on it! :p

Kinkeroo

In the Lion King, I used to think that Simba was saying "We don't eat some rice or little corn filled core of star" instead of "We don't need advice from little hornbills for a start", and I always thought that stars had corn inside them until I looked up the lyrics

Ninde