misheard lyrics

There was a girl that used to come over and play with me and my sister and we would listen to Blackstreet "No Diggity" all the time. She picked up on some of the lyrics and would sing "I like the way you work here, no diggity, I like the way you bag it up" Instead of "I like the way you work it, no diggity, I like the way you back it up"
It was the cutest thing.

Becky

My friend Helz has a lot of these, but my favourite was when she thought the line from Summer Nights from grease "he just turned 18" was " and he has white teeth"
It really tickled me

big Ging uk

Back in highschool I remember a lot of students singing along to the song "Blue" By Eiffel 65. They always sang it "I'm blue if I'm green I will die" Rather than "I'm blue da ba dee da ba die"

Amanda

In the new rap hit "Soul Survivor" by Akon and Young Jeezy, when Akon sings, "'Cause I'm ryda, yeah." I thought he was saying, "Bustin' my pride-ah, yeeah." And I recently caught my brother singing, "'Cause I'm a prava, yeahh..."
:-P

But yes, I do love 60's rock music.

i used to think that linsay lohan's song "i wanna come first" was "i wanna converse" i nver knew what it meant.

molly

Actual lyrics to Edward McCaine's "Ill Be": I'll be your crying shoulder, I'll be love's suicide."
I heard "I'll be love's silver sigh." I like my lyrics better.

Debi

When I was about 14 or so, me and my mum were watching Annie and she started singing along with the song "It's A Hard Knock Life" complete with what she thought were the correct lyrics: "it's a hard knock life for us, we're from the or-phan-age!"

7 years on and I still remind her about it whenever the song comes on, or whenever anyone mentions anything to do with Annie in general.

My mum turned 50 last year.

Jay

I Used To Believe that in the nursery rhyme "One man went to mow, went to mow a meadow" the man was actually travelling to a place called 'Mowameddo.'

Charley McKenzie

the first time i listened to The Killers' "Mr. Brightside" , i though they said "open up my biggest eye" instead of "open up my eager eyes" O_o i thought they talk about a transexual or something!!!

memole

my mom has this superchic{k} cd that she really likes if shes in the rite mood and she and my sister would sing along to this song together (it was called super trooper) and for a really really long time i thought that the lyrics were

"you were meant to live like Kiman Tay,
charge,
lets go light the world up,
lets not wait until the end,
to be the things we wish we'd been"

wheras the real lyrics are

"You were meant to live large,
come on take charge,
lets go light the world up,
lets not wait until the end,
to be the things we wish we'd been"
i seriously thought that Kiman Tay was some really famous person that i'd never heard of before but u should want to be like them. i was 14 too. oops.

Anon

I used to think that the words to The Wombles theme tune went:

"Wombles of Wimbledon,
Common are we"

As in "We are common."

Frances

When the rap song, Bubba Sparks, Miss New Booty, annoying as it is, came out, I didn't know what to think of it. At first I thought music had totally gotten flushed down the commode. Then I thought the producers must've been high at Sea World.
When the lyrics are really :BOOTY, BOOTY, BOOTY, BOOTY ROCKIN' EVERYWHERE....!!!! (3)I thought those morons were saying...

BOOTY, BOOTY, BOOTY,BOOTY ROCK IT LIKE A WHALE!!!!!! ROCK IT LIKE A WHALE!!! ROCK IT LIkE A WHALE!!!! (Trust me, pay real close attention to the last three lines of the chorus. I could barely beileve my ears, but quickly learned to accept it because rap is loosing it's touch anyways.)

I swear, for months all I could picture was Shamu in his aqaurium doing the booty call, brushing up against the tank's sides with his mouth wide open in self-gradification; and I could only "imagine" what the music video looked like.
And lets just say my dad fell in a heap of eternal laughter when I sung it at the top of my screeching lungs for karokie night at the sushi bar.

......I still hear it........

Save the Whales!!!!!!!!!

O.K... I had the perspective of the Star Spangled Banner all wrong as a kid. When they said, "Oh say can you see?" I though they were just saying "Say the word "can you see." because I simply thought the "Oh" was a singing filler-in. I never understood why they said say "can you see", but there wasn't a line where we could actually say it.
It doesn't stop there. After they told us to say "can you see", they expected us to say it by the "dawn's early light." What? That was WAY too early in the morning to be singing some song on the horizon.

Anon

Know that song that goes, "Stop in the name of love, before you break my heart" by Diana Ross & the Supremes? Well, I used to think she was singing, "Safe in the laundry room..." and everytime I heard it I would run to the laundry room and lock the door. Too bad my mom would always blast it on the stereo and she wouldn't know where I would go. Haha! :)

jennyyy

I've started to sing in English well before I actually learned to understand it, so here go some of the things I found out a few years too late:

- In Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "Hey You" it's
"You should have tried now, oooh"
and not
"You shouldn't drive now, oooh"

- In Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" it's
"So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain" and not "paint" =)

and
"Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?", not "vein"

- Whitesnake's "Full For the Night" was only ever "Fool For Your Love"

- From Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah":
"The baffled king composing Hallelujah", well, I never did believe "the baffled kiss" made sense anyway.

Naíma

I asked myself if the passage of the song "American Pie" really was ment to sound like " I was a Lonely-Teenage-Drunken-Butt"

Slim Tom

I thought that Neil Young's song "Let's Impeach the President" said the words "Let's impeach the president for smiling" instead of "Let's impeach the president for spying".

Anon

In the Sisters of Mercy song "Vision Thing" a part goes:

25 whores in the room next door,
25 whores and I neet more

which sounded like:

25 floors in the room next door
25 floors and ninteen more.

Big room indeed.

Slim Tom

Believe it or not, the first version of the song "'Winter Wonderland" I ever heard was the parody version that goes, "Walkin' round in women's underwear." I believed for the longest time that the "Women's Underwear" version was the correct version and everyone who sang "Winter Wonderland" had just misheard the lyrics.

Sofia

When I was little, I used to think the song "Damn, I wish i was your lover.." were actually the words "Damn, I wish I was your mother!!!" . I just figured the person singing it wanted to be a mum.

Hayles83