music: misheard lyrics

My mom used to think that the Crystal Gayle song went "Just call me Angel in the morning baby, just brush my teeth before you leave me... darling!" However, it is "just touch my cheek before you leave me..."

I was in the car with my parents when I first heard Elton John's "Candle in the Wind" Maybe the speakers weren't up to par, but I swore he was saying, "Tungla, the bungle whale"

One day, many weeks after that I mentioned it to my mother and asked about that whale named Tungla. It has been a family joke for years.

Whenever I the movie Titanic first came out, I pretty much fell in love with the song "My Heart Will Go On"...but instead of "Far across the distance, and spaces between us" I thought it said "Far across the distance and spaceships between us." It for some reason made sense at the time.

When I was about 4, "Lucille" by Kenny Rogers was popular. Instead of "four hungry children, crops in the field", I sang it as "four hundred children crapping in the field".

I used to think that in Macy Gray's song it was i try to say goodbye and i choke, try to walk away and Istambul, though i try to hide it is clear i wore googles when you r not there! Rather than my world crumbles!
I have no clue what the Istambul bit was about either!

My son was singing along with Kenny Rogers and sang, "You left me with 400 kids and a crop in the ground." The real lyrics are, "4 hungry kids and a crop in the ground". He is now 40 and we still laugh about it.

You know the The Who song "Magic Bus?" after every line of the verses, the song goes, "Too much, Magic Bus!" Well, I used to think they were saying "Tubas! Magic Bus!"

It's already kind of a weird song. It never bothered me.

Until a few years ago, I thought Eric Clapton was saying "hey love" instead of Layla. I love this oldie and was singing it loud. My friend had a look of annoyance on her face when she said it's LAYLA!

When I was a boy there was a popular song by Val Dooligan called 'Walk Tall'. The lyric goes: She said, 'Son be a proud man and hold your head up high' . I heard it as: She said,'Son be a frogman and hold your head up high' ...I still do

my sister used to think the lyrics to the Hall & Oates song, "Private Eyes... there watching you, they see your every move." was actually, "Crocodiles...they're watching you, they see your every move

Being in the final year at school, we get a common room in school, where we can play our own music and stuff, although most of the other people in my year are into R&B and rap, and I'm, well... not. They keep on playing Christina Milian's 'AM to PM', and until today I was totally convinced that the part that goes:

'All the chicks and the fellas in the bars...'

actually went:

'All the chicks kick the fellas in the balls...'

Last time I try and sing along :P

One day I overheard my brother (about 17yrs old at the time) ask my dad for a copy of "that Elton John song...you know...uhhh...hold me closer I'm tired of dancin'."

I still laugh out loud at that one. I mean come on, it makes sense right? Yep.

In the song "Jet Airliner" by the Steve Miller Band, there's a line that goes "Don't take me too far away". When I was little I thought it was "Don't take me to my wake". I assumed that he was talking about how he didn't want to die in a plane crash, which made sense. I remember thinking, "But how could you ever attend your OWN WAKE?"

In the song 'Just Like Jesse James" by Cher, when she says "Think your so bad driving women folk wild"...I thought it was "Think you're so bad driving women f***ing wild"...and thought how can they play this on the radio and not edit it!

The lyrics are "She was looking kinda dumb with her finger an her thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead." and I thought they were "She was looking kinda numb with her finger in her thumb in the shape of an elf" Lol.

i used to think that the song "Jeanny" by Falco was called "Chile". I even posted an ad in the newspaper that I was looking for the CD "Chile" by Falco.