music: misheard lyrics

My best friend used to sing the line in Garth Brooks' "Much too young to feel this damn old" where he says "lonely women and bad booze" as "lonely women and baboons". She did that until we were 17 and I heard her and started cracking up!

This isn't really my belief, but my mom's. Anyway, I was listening to "Okay I Believe You But My Tommy Gun Don't" by Brand New, and my mom thought the opening line "I am heaven sent, don't you dare forget" was "I am having sex, don't you dare forget".

She was concerned...

When I was little, I heard the last song that's played in Grease and thought John Travolta was saying "I got juice in the blender" instead of "I got chills, they're multiplyin." I have no idea how I thought that.

I'd always thought that the line in Jethro Tull's lick your fingers clean "And place your final burden on your hard pressed next of kin" was and place your hard pressed burden on your armrest Mexcian

When I was 5-7 I thought "let the bodies hit the floor" was "let the parties at the flow" I knew about that song because I watched youtube back then (this was like 2008-2010) so there was many videos with that song in the background. I didn't know much english but knew a few words. After I found out the name of the band was "drowning pool" I thought they lived in an inflatable empty swimming pool that was stranded at the middle of the ocean.

When I was about 7 and my sister was 4, she used to drive me up the wall by singing: "when you're in love with a beautiful womble" instead of "... ... beautiful woman". I can see how she made the error. Whenever I hear the song now, I always insert "womble" - it makes me chuckle...

The first time I heard the song "Candida" as a young teen (a long time ago) I heard the chorus as "Candida, wake up naked together" I was shocked (truly). My sister later told me the words were "Candida, We could make it together"

I used to think that song by Nirvanna, were they sing "her denial" over and over was "bloody nylon"! O.K. I know it is sick. I REALLY thought that was what it was for like 2 years!

For years I thought the line in Bennie and the Jets was "she's got electric boobs and her ma has too". Actually it's "she's got electric boots and a mohair suit". I still sing my version however!

I always thought Jimmy Buffett was "wasted away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost CIRCULAR SAW". My husband laughed until he cried when he caught me singing it.

we used to sing as kids
(thinking we were right)
mais e dotes an dos e dotes
and litte lamsitivy
a tiddly tivie to
wouldnt you
(real words)
mares eat oats
and lambs eat oats
and little lambs eat ivy
id like to eat ivy too wouldnt you

People still erroneously believe that the Beatles have a song about a 'paperback writer', when clearly it's about a paper bag writer as I have known since the age of four.

my little sister's best friend thought that the Starship song said, "Milk Dud City, Milk Dud City on Rock and Roll!"

she thought that for years.

For many years I really belived the first line of the Meatloaf song Bat out of Hell was..... Like a battery Hen I'll be gone when the morning comes......

in the song 'Push It' by Salt & Peppa, when they sang "p push it real good"i used to think it went "poor pussy realgood", and so i hated it, cos i thought it was about someone being horrible to a cat named Realgood. i still sing it my way though.

i was viciously mocked throughout my childhood by my brother and sisters when they found out that i was convinced that 'Unchained Melody' contained the lyrics "I fumble for your torch" instead of "i hunger for your touch". I perhaps shouldnt have argued but IT MADE SENSE.