music: misheard lyrics

I misheard 'she just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich' in 'Down Under' by Men at Work. Not having heard of Vegemite then I thought it was a 'bitumen sandwich'. I still annoy my husband by deliberately singing this version whenever it comes on the radio.

In Good Charlotte's The Anthem I thought that they were saying "This is the end, so blow all your heads up!" instead of "This is the Anthem, throw all your hands up!"

When i first saw the film Grease, i actually thought that in the song 'you're the one that i want' they were singing 'you're the wizard of oz, ooh ooh ooh' well let's face it olivia newton john comes from australia and she did record a song called 'Magic'so it fits. Lol

There is this bit in Up Where we belong by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warner which goes "standing here together". My friend Heather was singing it in front of a group of people and sang "Stanley's gone forever". When they all stopped and looked at her she said " I know, who the hell is Stanley!"

I used to think "I'll never be your beast of burden" said "I'll never leave your pizza burnin'"

I know, I'm a retard

I used to believe that the UK's national anthem included the line "Send her Victoria's" instead of "Send her victorious"
I was ever so curious as to what they were sending the Queen that belonged to Victoria!
"Mummmmmyyy,send her Victoria's WHAT???"

I once heard the song "Secret" by Madonna and thought that the line "Happiness lies in your own hands" was "A penis lies in your own hands". Let's face it, it was Madonna!

My friend told me that for a long time she thought that the Rolling Stones song "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" was really "I Can't Get No Bitch in Action". Her version of it is actually better than the real one, it sounds more rock and roll.

My sister in law once said to me that she thought that the Barry Manilow song 'Copacabana' was about a dog, because she misheard the lyrics 'and when she'd finished he called her rover' which are actually 'And when she finished, he called her over' well it does sound the same if you say it fast I suppose.

I remember that I believed that, in the Annie song "Hard-Knock Life" from the musical, it was "hard (not) life" which means that they enjoyed the whole orphan labour thing.

I wonder if I ever sang it in public?

I listened to the Beatles all the time when I was younger, and before I learned any English. I have a lot of misunderstandings that I have realized later.... It's quite interesting to listen to the lyrics again, now that I understand what they're talking about.

One "mishearing" however I hadn't realized until recently. The song is "I'm a loser" and he sings: "What have I done to deserve such a fate" but I always thought that he said: "What have I done to deserve such a face"
- I was picturing a very ugly man singing and I felt so sorry for him....haha

When my sister was little she used to think BTO's song, Takin' Care of Business, was called Takin Care of Pidgeons. We had them play it at her wedding and everytime they came to the chorus the DJ turned down the sound and we all shouted at her "Takin Care of Pidgeons"

Although the lyrics to B*witched's C'e Lai Ve (or whatever it is) are "Say you will, say you won't, say you'll do anything, C'e Lai Ve!" I still am obsessed with the words being "Say you will, say you won't, say you'll do anyhting, celery!". Well, mine are better :) lol

When i was in elementary school we always had to sing O Canada in the beginning of the day.the last line is 'we stand on guard for thee'. for some strange reason i thought it was 'we stand on one foot eeeee' so at the end i would always stand on on foot.

When I first got The Beatles' Abbey Road album, I heard the line "Sleeps in a hole in the road" in Mean Mr. Mustard as "Sheeps in a Hollywood toad"

I was convinced for years that the ohio express record 'yummee' went 'yummee yummee yummee, i've got bugs in my tummy'. It wasn't until I was about 35 that I realised my error.