misheard lyrics

An ex-boyfriend tried to convince me that the song "Who are you", by The Who was actually about New Orleans, so the refrain was "New Orleans, new-new, new-new" I, for once, actually knew the correct lyrics and he looked like the dope.

Amy

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..."

Julie

When our daughters were little and were singing Jingle Bells when they got to the part of the "one horse open sleigh. one had put in with "a horse with a broken leg" and the other had" a horse with soap on his leg."

Tinkle-Wink

My nephew 'piggy' thought he knew all the words to Meatloafs 'Bat out of Hell', when it came to the words "then like a sinner, before the gates of heaven" came out as "like a swimmer, before the gates of devon" .bless.

bres

Sting's song "Message in a Bottle" somehow got garbled into "Message in a Bottomless Pit". I guess I never really actually listened to it--it sounded far more intriguing that way anyway.

Natalya

I always thought the line which goes "Its been three years since I wrote my note" In "Message in a bottle" - The Police, was "Its been three years since I broke my nose". I think it sounds better like that any way.

Styg o' the Dump

A woman I knew many years ago thought that the name of the song "Vaya Con Dios" was "Bye Bye Cornelius."

C.C.

My wife, despite being told a number of times sings 'Heaven is a half PINT' to the lyrics of OPM's 'Heaven is a half PIPE'

...oh and to ABBA's 'Super Trouper', 9 times out of 10 you will hear from here 'Super-douper'

Matthew

Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays. I thought the line DSillicone chips inside her head was: silly old chips and cider head!

Anon

I remember asking my mother why Madonna was singing about being like a line down the side of a page... Virginity was not the easiest concept for my mum to explain to a 5 year old.

Even so, it still didn't rival my favourite song 'Get that hornet'.

Jody

i used to belive in a song by M2M where it goes "...grass is greener on the other side.." i thought it was wrap his wiener on the other side...:D

Anon

"every time you go... away,
you take a piece of MEAT with you"

xvaleriex

Dirty deeds and their done dirt cheap...
wasn't it really Dirty deeds and a bumblebee?

kiwis can fly

When I first heard Perpetual Widow by Tori Amos- I thought " It's gotta be big" was really "Saggy tits" and "scabby pig"

flic

Reading through the misheard lyrics page, I just found out the correct lyrics for something I've misheard for years!

Every time I heard the Pearl Jam song "Glorified Version of a Pellet Gun," I swear I heard "Hot, Fly Virgins and a Belly Gun."

It drove me nuts when that song came on because I could not understand what the hell Eddie was talking about! I was sure it was Pelicans or Femme-bots

embarrased

I used to think that Metallica's "exit night, enter light" was "Amstel Light, Amstel Light, walk in never never land" I thought it was a song about getting tanked and having good times!

Anon

i used to think that the lyrics for lady marmalade were: coochy coochy ya ya, moca cocca ya ya. free your lady mama now. moolan voodo say what at my house.
i dint realize i had it wrong till on the bus i was singing with my headphones on and my friend BUSTED out laughing

imh

Similarly to another post here, I thought the lyrics to Madonna's 'Erotic' were 'hey Ronnie, hey Ronnie, put your hands all over my body'. I didn't realise until a couple of years ago what they actually were (I'm 17 now).

Holl

There was a song in the 90's. I don't remember the band but in the chorus, it said "I'm standing by you". I was pretty young then and I loved to watch ice-skating. I used to think the singer said, "Oksana Baiul". I always wondered why he was singing about a skater.

Ram420

my brother used to think that Manfred man sung "ha ha Santa Claus" instead of "ha ha said the clown"
quite rude to laugh at Santa, I thought he would find nothing in his stocking ...

Rixxx