music: misheard lyrics

I used to believe…

the song party crowd by david lee murphy i used to think it said "and tonight im looking or a car to drive" (instead of Party crowd) and in one part he wakes up and is looking for his truck made sense to me ..


and the same singer david lee murphy has the song "dust on the bottle" i thought it was dust on the bible......he must pronoune his words funny to have two songs misherard lol

When I was small I used to watch The Land Before Time a lot. The theme song is 'If We Hold on Together'. Some of the lyrics are:

If we hold on together
I know our dreams will never die
Dreams see us through to forever
Where clouds roll by
For you and I

I somehow heard those lyrics (with a mangled tune to match) as:

Blazing motels
One thousand is the total
Waltzing at once
And we'll do it again

I believed this for a very long time. I knew it never made sense but accepted it as fact anyway.

When I heard the lyrics "four hungry children and a crop in the field," I heard instead "400 children and a crop in the field." My best friend, Kathy, had to correct me!

Men At Work - Land Down Under

"he just smiled and gave me a bit of my sandwich"

I knew this didn't sound right unless the man from Brussels and full of muscles was a bit vacant.
But I had no idea what else it could be. I looked it up and found out it really says

"he just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich"

Whatever that is..

Here are some lyrics and words that I have heard wrong:

Forever in Blue Jeans was The Reverend Blue Jeans

Night Fever by the Bee Gees: Sweet City Woman was Two Headed Woman; I sort of knew that one was wrong

Sara Lee Commercial: I thought it was Nobody Does It Like Sara Lee, not so, it is Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee. Horrible grammer.

Midnight Oil / Beds are burning. I didn't listen to this song for a long time, and I forgot artist, title, everything. I trie to look it up from the lyrisc I thoutght I remembered - well it took quite a while, because instead of "How do we sleep while our beds are burning" I typed "How do we dance while our pants are burning" At least, i got the burnig part right...

When I first heard Beastie boys 'Intergalactic', I thought the part with vocoder that says 'another dimension' said
' I have an erection'. I can still hear it now even though I know what it says!

In the 80's or late 90's their was a song sung by a pop/techno group that had a phrase that said "we're having big fun" my husband use to think it said "we're having meatballs"

You know that corny Winne the Pooh song that came out with the animated series in the late 80's? I think everyone has.

There's a line in there that goes...

"Wherever we go. Oh, won't you take me please...Pooh Bear, I gotta be there... it's me and it's you, a silly old Winnie the Pooh..."

Little me heard: "Wherever we go, no oh you tapey please... Pooh Bear I got a bee there... it's me and a shoe, a silly old Winnie the Pooh..."

All through the series, I had yet to see a happy, talking shoe and was confused why they mentioned him if they were never going to show him.

There's also a line in there that goes
"He's round and he's fuzzy, I love him because he's just... Pooh Bear...(ect.)

I heard: He's brown and he's fuzzy, I love em' because he's just..."

I got mad when I heard that line because Pooh Bear looked 100% orange to me. I thought the adults were just trying to test our color skills. I was seriously thinking about writing a letter to stop lying to us about Pooh Bear's color. When that didn't work, I just figured it was something wrong with my TV.

Ah... good times... good times...

I used to think that in Britney Spears' ''Hit Me Baby'' song where she sang ' I'm in too deep ' that it was ' Im ment to de (sounds like be) '

I could never understand why none of her producers or anyone corrected the word de to be. Strange.

A family member thought -and probably still thinks -
"Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap" (from Dirty Deeds by AC/DC) was "dirty deeds and the thunder chief."

i was driving with my sister (she was 17, i was 14) while listening to a christmas music station on the radio, and the song "little saint nick" came on. i started singing to the first verse, and so did she, but we sang different words. she was convinced that she was right, but i knew i was, as i had sung the song in choir. we looked up the lyrics online, and i had a good laugh as she told me what she thought everything was.

"there's a tale about christmas that you've all been told" in her mind was "there's a half a dozen reindeer living out in the cold." i explained to her that half a dozen reindeer was six, and santa had eight reindeer, plus rudoplh.

"christmas comes this time each year" was thought to be "christmas comes this tiny cheer." isn't christmas supposed to be a BIG cheer?

and finally, "run run reindeer" was "one red reindeer". i asked her which reindeer was red, and she said they were talking about rudoplh, with his red nose.

can you believe she was 17 at the time?

In Hilary Duff's song, "With Love", I heard in the chorus: "You can even be tough, say you'll have a Zima." It's actually, "say enough is enough". But in my opinion having a boyfriend who drinks Zima is way worse than one who will tell you if you look fat in that.

I similarly thought that "Proud Mary" included the lyrics "pumped a lot of tanks down in New Orleans."

All of my family and friends have always sung to the song 'I Try' by Macy Gray "I wear goggles when you are not here" when it actually says "My world crumbles when you are not near". We had no idea why she was wearing goggles but we say it anyway

Take That: Want you back.Want you back for good.

Instead someone told my Mum that these were the words.

Wash your back.
Wash your back for good.

I then picked up on them and was always going around singing it, and one day at school someone in my class corrected me. I was so embarrassed.