music: misheard lyrics

i remember watching TOP OF THE POPS in the 80's and my mum said that music just wasnt what it used to be as it just doesnt make any sense these days
She was puzzling over a song by Depeche Mode 'Catch the butterflies'
it was in fact 'Get the balance right'!!

when i heard "strawberry fields forever" for the first time, i mistook it as "strawberry fields for trevor" whenever i heard the song i would say (rather loudly i might add)"WHO'S TREVOR? AND WHY DOES HE GET STRAWBERRY FIELDS" once i did this is a sore at the mall, wih a radio playing. It gets worse. We (my parents and i, i was about 5) were at an electronics store, and just then a salemen came around and said "Do you have any questions?" "yes," i reaplied "Who's trevor?"
Unfortunatly for me, nobody understood (What a nice imagination our daughter has) or set me straight about the song lyrics. Several years later, when i was 9 i was still hanging on the my "Trevor" belief when i went to a Pick-Ur-Own strawberry farm type thing with a sign that said "Strawberry Fields" this set off a little bell in my head, would i soon find out who trevor was? when some guy came to tell us where to go and to give us a container for the strawberries i just had to say : "Excuse me, but are you trevor?"

I am sure the majority of us have heard Madonna's song "Secret" from her Bedtime Stories album. Well, when I was young, I always thought she said "having his lice in your own hands" rather than the real, and much less confusing lyrics, "happiness lies in your hands". I finally realized what she was saying when a few years later I bought the cd and read the lyrics from the cd booklet.

When I was a young kid, me and my brother always thought that adam ant was singing the line in prince charming as 'stop reading Dandy' put on your big ganzie' instead of 'stop being dandy show them you are handsome'
by the way a ganzie is a liverpudlian term for jumper or cardigan.

i used to believe the song went like this: "mairzydoats and dozydoats and little lamsedivy a kiddle eat divy too wouldn't you?" couln't figure out what those mairzydoats and dozydoats were or what a 'kiddle' was. It wasn't until I was over 20 years old that I heard the real words: "mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy, a kid'll eat ivy too wouldn't you?" Silly how we hear things as children - frightening too when you think about it!

when my brother was little he heard that song by Tom Jones..that goes "Pussy cat Pussy cat I love you"
but for some reason he misunderstood the song and song it
"PUSSY PUSSY I LOVE YOU AND YOUR PUSSY".
Still today he gets picked on about it.

Until a bit ago, my 15-year-old friend thought that the lyrics to big yellow taxi were "paved paradise and put up a f***ing light" She would always talking loudly at that part in the song when she was in the car with her little brothers because she didn't want them to hear it.

My dad misunderstood the lyrics for "This Land." He used to think it was:

"From the Redwood Forest to the Ghostly Waters"

Rather than:

"From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream Waters"

He sang about the Ghostly Waters until he was 40. As a kid, he even spent hours looking on maps for the Ghostly Waters.

When I used to sing "rock-a-bye baby" i thought the words were "and down will come gravy, cradle and all". And I thought my mum was being an idiot when she tried to correct me.

Tee hee! This is a great website! Toto's song "Africa" seems to prove a popular one for completely misunderstanding the lyrics...and heres another to add to the collection. I thought " I bless the rains down in Africa" was in fact - "I left my brains down in Africa!" The fact that I thought anyone was fortunate enough to have more than one is beyond me! My sister was and still is, the bright spark of the family (you could say "brain/brains" of the outfit)and thought it hilariously amusing to make me sing it in front of my family and only letting on afterwards, that the lyrics were in fact totally incorrect! Bye allx

There is a song by the girl group All Saints called "I Feel You" with a line that goes "blessed with love and happiness" - for ages (and much to my sisters amusement) i thought it was "blessed with love and a penis"...

I always assumed that the first line of you're the one that I want from Grease was "I've got shoes, they're multiplying..."

There was a song that was popular about three years ago by Dog's Eye View called "It falls apart." There's a line in the song that says "...and the devil is in my hands..." My mom and I thought it was just hilarious because we thought it said, "... and the devil is in my pants..." Finally we read the lyrics and were very disappointed.

Another eighties hit that goes "I got my mind set on you..."
On the bus from kindergarten until third grade, whenever the song would come on the whole bus would sing ...SIT ON YOU" But it wasn't until I was 16 that I realized it wasn't really how it went...damn kids...

My mate Wainers' wife Nikki, thought that the Red Dwarf theme said 'It's cold outside, there's no snow in Africa' as opposed to conventional wisdom which suggest it is 'It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere'

When we were 11 and 12 my sister, a big Billy Idol fan, thought "Eyes without a face" was "How's about a date?". Wishful thinking!