music: misheard lyrics

When I was a kid, my teen-aged sister and her girlfriend would sing the chorus of "Woman, Woman" by Gary Puckett & the Union Gap as "woman, have you got Gene on your mind?" (Her friend was going out with this one guy but also liked a guy named Gene.) It was at least 20 years later that I finally realized the line was "woman, have you got cheating on your mind?" And even though it's been 20 years since that realization, I still sing it with "Gene" in the verse.

When I used to listen to The Ballad of John and Yoko I thought there was a friend of the band who was of African descent and resembled Paul McCartney named Brown Paul who was mentioned in the lyrics “Brown Paul say you can make it okay. You can can get married in Gibraltar or Spain”. The actual lyrics were “Peter Brown called to say you can make it okay”

In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'.

I thought "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits was a fictional advertisement for a store like Best Buy, and that they were trying to get you to buy something more expensive than just a CD with music on it by insulting the artist.

my friends mom used to sing "you talk sense" instead of utah saints.

i used to think that the manfred mann/bruce springsteen song 'Blinded By the Light' went:

Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a douche
In the middle of the night...

after awhile, i realized that this COULDNT be what was intended. but it wasnt until today that i found out the correct lyrics:

Blinded by the light
revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night...

In the song, "We're coming to your town, we're gonna PARTY DOWN"....my brother sings it this way (he is 40 by the way)"We're coming to your town, we're gonna BURN IT DOWN"

my mom heard Tori Amos,s "professional widow" and where Tori says "honey bring it close to my...." my mom thought she was saying "we havin' toast tonight"!!! ,in another line Tori says "its gotta be big" my mom thought it was "scabie git"!!!!!!!!!!!!

I only recently found out that the Cliff Richard & Young Ones song, "Living Doll" is NOT "Living Dog". "i've got a roving eye and that is why she satisfies my soul" So that makes sense now.

I used to think that "My bonnie lies over the ocean," went, "My body lies over the ocean," and I was sad, because I thought it was about a floating dead person!

In the song "Greased Lightning" from the musical "Grease", there is a line "You know that ain't no shit, we'll be getting lots of tit". I was eight and had just got the record and played this line for my dad, who corrected me, saying it was "You know that when you shift, you'll be getting lots of tift". When I asked him what a 'tift' was, he said that it meant 'a rough time'. So for years I would regularly use 'tift' in sentences, such as "Wow, you'll really be in a big tift if the teacher sees you!" Only when I was in my teens did I realize that my dad simply didn't want me repeating the words 'shit' and 'tit' in public.

Ya know the song "Stop in the Name of Love", well when I was little I thought the part where they say "Think it o over.. think it o over!"
I thought it was "Stop in the name of love before you break my heart, like a boldozer.. like a boldozer!

I used to believe…

That Madonna song 'Get Erotic' kinda came funny to my ears. To me, it sounded like 'Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body'

when Rush, Rush by Paula Abdul came out, my aunt had just had her baby. So in the chorus, when Paula says, "Rush, rush" My aunt thinks she is saying, "push, push". To this day, she refuses to believe otherwise.

i used to think the hyena's line in the lion king song "Be Prepared" was 'make love to the king' (as oppose to long live to king) My mum tried to subtly suggest that this wasn't entirely correct, but i was utterly convinced and went on singing it at the top of my voice regardless - completely unaware of the implications!!

I can't remember the name of the song or the artist, though I know it was a woman
However the chorus had the words 'The Girl can't help it'
I was sure she was singing 'The Brylcreme muppet'