music: misheard lyrics

When I was a child, I thought that Jimmy Buffett blew out his flip-flop stepping on a PopTart; and that he was vainly searching for his "lost Digger the Dog" (a popular toy when I was small).

I used to believe, that when you had to sing a song, it didn't matter if you screwed up the lyrics with something you THINK souned like the words, because if YOU thought it sounded like it, everyone else wouldn't notice 'cause it souned similar.

Oh how wrong i was. I found out that is not true after i sang science i walked away from school,
when it should have been SINCE i walked away from YOU.

How embarrasing (sp?)

My mom used to hate the band Queen, so she never bothered to find out the words to Bohemian Rhapsody, but I listened to it all the time, and one day when we were in the car and it was playing on the radio, she asked me why he kept saying "poor boy so often.
Well, since he actually does say that in the song (I'm just a poor boy, etc.)
I tried to tell her to just listen to the rest of the line until I figured out that she was mistaking "Mama" for "poor boy". Then several weeks later, we were listening to it again, and she asks me what they're saying (during the "Bismillah" part). I actually SAY "Bismillah", to which she replies, "Who's Miss Miller?".
Then I wrote the lyrics out for one of my friends and for some reason she thought that I wrote "Door boy" instead of "poor boy" (I don't think my handwriting is that bad!).
Also in their song March of the Black Queen, For some reason I thought the line "Forget your singalongs and your lullabies" was actually "Forget your seminars and your lullabies" and I sang it that way for several months (it made sense to me, but now I don't know why). I also wrote down another part of the song for a different friend, just to annoy her (because she likes country music) and I wrote the "I reign with my left hand, I rule with my right" part, and she thought it said "I resign with my left hand".
I finally thought it was all over with, but that seems to be impossible. My grandmother at first thought that Tie Your Mother Down was called Tie Your Brother Down. I corrected her and forgot about it until recently, when my mom asked me, "Is he saying 'I got my ass all tight'?" (it's actually 'act'), when my grandmother asked me what song it was, saying, "Oh, is that Hold Your Mama Down?" She also thought that Wild Cherry's Play That Funky Music was Play That F---ing Music and yelled at me for singing along with it (with the correct words!)

My friend used to sing the end of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit as "Bloody nylons" instead of "a denial".

I'm from Germany, and, listening to
Enya's latin "cursum perficio", I
always heard (and if I want to still
hear) "Katz und Maus" for "cur-su-m".
Translated, the song then goes:

cat and mouse - perficio
cat and mouse - perficio

I used to thinkg this was so incredibly
stupid.

I'm almost 17 and have been a chili peppers fan since i was a kid. but you can't imagine how cool i felt when my older sis and i were jammin' to Under Th Bridge and she corrected me when i said "under the bridge up top." It's actually "under the bridge downtown." Also for the longest time i thought that Michael Jackson said "she was sitting at the table, you could see she was a negro." instead of "he could see she was unable."

i used to think that that song wheres your head at sed wheres georgina and when i told my mum evrytime she heard that song shed shout out shes here

Ever since I've been able to catch lyrics, basically my adult life, there were many songs...probably at least 50, that I thought I heard my name in the lyrics.

Since U Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson

Since U Been Gone
I can breathe for the first time
Since U Been Gone
Yeah Yeah
Sexy You
Now I get what I want
Since U Been Gone

My brother thought that Gypsies Tramps and Thieves was acutally Beans Beans Corn and Wings

When I was little my dad often played a tape in his car with the song "More than a Woman". I always thought it was "four legged woman" and sung along that way.

Around 1994 (I think), my friends and I were sitting around listening to oldies. The song "Little Deuce Coupe" came on, and one girl, Teresa, actually sang out loud "Little Best Cook". We all just looked at her in total shock. I mean, at this time our average age group was about 21, but come on, it doesn't sound like that to me. Thanks to Teresa for one of the funniest things I have ever heard!

in the Red Hot Chili Peppers' song 'Breaking the Girl', he sings, 'she meant you no harm'. I thought he said, 'she can't chew no more'. Poor girl.

Ok, I feel really stupid now, because, until I read this site, I couldn't figure out what the real words for "Blinded By the Light" were!!! It sounded like "revved up like a duche, another rumor in the night" but I really didn't see how that could POSSIBLY make sense in that song! Oy, I feel like an idiot!

this is really recent. I heard the fatman scoop song 'be faithful' and thought it was saying 'fatman scoop, rock the clam.' the real words, in fact, are 'fatman scoop, crooklyn clan'

These Days by Bon Jovi: I got a couple of things wrong..and I sang it that way until I looked up the lyrics (I'm 20)

"These days the stars hang out of reach instead, These days there ain't a light up on the streets" instead of
"These days the stars seem out of reach, These days there ain't a ladder on these streets"

"his momma said he was crazy, he said: Momma I've got a child"..the right lyrics are
"momma I've got to try"