music: misheard lyrics

When I was younger I use to love the song "Rock you like a hurricane."
I thought they sang: Rock you like a Burger King!

I use to sing it all of the time and my dad's like, Ash, that's not the way it goes!

Last month I heard the song "Living on a Prayer" (I'm 15), and I thought it was "Living on a Brayer," as in a donkey ('cause they bray). I was convinced it was about a guy riding cross-country on a donkey: "We're halfway there," meant they were near Oklahoma.

I used to think in that one song "he's a jolly good fellow" then it said "he's a johnny good fellow". I always wondered who johnny was and why they sang about him when the song was in honer of someone else.

in the green day song 'holiday' then at one point it says something like "critisize your governments" but i used to think it said "critisize your girlfriend's mints"
lol.

When I was a teenager my friend's brothers-ages 8-9- thought that Eric Clapton's "Lay down Sally" was "Make a salad".it didn't matter that the next words were "and rest you in my arms" Still today when I hear the song I will sometimes hum to myself ".. make a salad" to see if I can * hear* what they heard.

From time to time I find myself humming or singing a tune from the Roches I heard thirty years ago. I've searched high and low for this song only remembering the lyrics "If I take you to heaven, will you ever come down". I have searched the Roches discography, I've plugged lyric searches into search engines, I even asked various forums over years. But I've never found the song. I'd resigned myself to thinking the song was on some one-off collection I'd never find.

So today I popped in a Roches greatest hits collection I just purchased to hear a song I do know, and out comes THE tune I've been losing brain cells over for all these years. Except they're singing "If you go down to Hammond, will you ever come back".

I think the Roches are laughing at me right now.

Whenever I heard the song 'You gotta be' by Des'Ree, I thought she sang 'You've got a big bag, you've got a big boat, you've got a big Visa, you've got a big heart, you've a big tuft..' instead of 'You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser, you got a be hard you gotta be tough' I had always thought it was the song to the Visa credit card commercial!

The TV show The Jeffersons was popular when I was about 4. Here are the lyrics my little mind thought were being sung:
Well we're movin' on up,
To Pizza Hut,
To a pizza apartment in the sky,
Movin on up,
To Pizza Hut,
We finally got a piece of the pie.
Beans don't burn in the kitchen,
Beans don't burn on the grill,
Took a whole lot of her and him,
Just to get up that hill.
Zowie up in the big league,
Guess my turn is next,
Along with sweet lips,
It's you and me, baby,
Ain't nuthin' wrong with us.
Hey, we're movin' on up,
To Pizza Hut.........

When I was younger I used to think that the song line "Mind the music and the step and with the girls be handy" in Yankee Doodle Dandy was "Someday when you're walking by the girls may come in handy."

I thought Robert Palmer was singing, "She's a man, there's no other way to go!" in Simply Irrisistable.

The correct lyric is "She's all mine, there's no other way to go".

I used to believe the song lyrics from Eiffel 65's song Blue went :

I'm blue da-ba-dee-da-ba-di
If I was green I would die da-ba-dee-da-ba-di
Aberdeen are so shite da-ba-de-dee-da-ba-di
If I was green I would die da-ba-dee-da-ba-di

Yeah, the first line was right. I think the lyrics can be attributed to the fact that my family are Rangers Football Club supporters, and I heard my uncle singing the song, so when I heard it on the radio, I naturally assumed my uncle's lyrics were the correct ones. How wrong I was.

I also got into trouble singing it at my school disco. It was at Primary school, and there were Celtic supporters (i.e the green half of Glasgow).

Massive footballing rivalries such as Rangers v Celtic always cause a lot of fighting, thank God my singing didn't cause some.

In Daniel Powter's song Bad day I could've sworn he said "Sit your butt down ". but really he said 'take a walk down " or something like that. But I thought Daniel Powter was rude for someone who had a bad day to "sit their butt down "

My friend and I went to see the play "South Pacific" and there's a song talking about racism and how it's not natural, that people are "carefully taught" to be so.

Well, my friend thought they were singing "You must be careful, E. Tawt" as if it was a warning to a certain Mr. E. Tawt.

After clarifying what the song was really saying, I asked her who she thought E. Tawt was... she answered..."I didn't know! That's why I was sooo confused!"

Everyone know the Macy Grey song that was a hit long time ago ["I try"], well I thought it said
"SI try to say goodbye to Machoke"
Pokémon being really popular at the time too, made me think that she was saying goodbye to Machoke.

my dad told me that when he was a kid a song came out that went ' Denise , Denise', Denise , Denise.
He used to think it was ' beneath the knees , beneath the knees ' . He used to wonder how you could just love a woman beneath the knees.

Thanks in part to that Simpsons episode, I used to believe that the lyrics to the B*rry M*nilow song went: "Oh Mandy, you came and you gave me cold turkey".