music: misheard lyrics

There's a folk song called "Bay of Fundy " by a singer called Gordon Bok.It's a sea song about how dreary and dangerous this bay in Canada is.There's a line about how thr singer would like to " spend his days on the Labrador" and never see old Fundys shore, as in the area of that name in Canada.I heard the song for the first time when I was about seven, and I was baffled.Tohe only "Labrador " I knew of was the dog ( Labrador ).So in honor of the song I drew a picture of a large black dog with a tiny person on its back and presented it to my mother.She looked really confused and asked me to explain.Annoyed, I said "you know, like the song". To clarify things for idiots, I added a balloon above the tiny person saying "I'm on the Labrador".Mom finally got it and started laughing like crazy.It took several years, and an Atlas, before I finally got the cause of the hilarity.Then I just felt embarrassed.

I thought that "toony" was a slang term for a part of your body of which you had two, as in the song "Ballin' the Jack" (First you put your toonies close up tight). (OUCH!)

I had a toy called Learn Through Music which had cartridges with pictures that would go into a toy with a touchscreen and buttons. The cartridges would be based on popular children's tv shows. My younger siblings would play with it for years. Now here's the belief!

The demo cartridge had samples of the Spongebob cartridge, one slide had him singing about what over, under, and through mean. Part of the lyrics (to the tune of Johnny Comes Marching Home) were:
"Under means go below below, below. Over means go above above, above."

I thought he was singing "underneath" and "overneath"! I knew that overneath wasn't a real word, I thought it was just part of Spongebob's usual silliness. I only realized my mistake in recent years!

I used to sang wrong in the song "Filhote do Filhote" by Rubinho do Vale, in the stretch "I live in a beautiful blue ball that floats through space", until last week I sang "I live in a beautiful blue house that floats through space".

There's a line in Donna Lewis's "I love you always forever" that says "You've got the most unbelievable blue eyes I've ever seen". Up until recently, I thought she was saying "the most stumbling blue eyes I've ever seen". I figured Stumbling meant something similar to "stunning" in this context

I thought the line in Papa Roach- Last Resort that says "Would it be wrong would it be right, if I took my life tonight? Chances are that I might" actually said "Chances are dynamite". I figured it meant he was going to blow himself up with dynamite.

I had no idea what a “pufferbelly” was for an embarrassingly long time. The closest thing I had as an idea for what it meant was that a “pufferbelly” was some kind of humanoid, due to the Wiggles performing the song. It was only until I was in my mid teens that I had to be told they were steam engines!

when i listened to christopher cross 'ride like the wind' i thought he was saying, take me to the corner of mexico. i just found out 2 years ago, at 27, that he was saying border, not coner!

A friend of mine thought the lyric in Ziggy Stardust went 'Making love with his eagle' instead of 'ego'. When I laughed and told him the real lyric, he claimed it made as much sense as any other Bowie lyric.

I was in a band in high school. Our drummer was famous for getting lyrics wrong. One time he suggested we do "Tapico's Own". We were all scratching our heads until he explained, "You know, that Sonny & Cher song Tapico's Own." He was talking about "The Beat Goes On". We never let him forget it.

When I first heard the song "What A Wonderful World" in the film "Good Morning Vetnam" (and even later, on the radio), I didn't understand the meaning of the lyrics that went "the bright, blessed day, the dogs say good night," or why talking dogs were part of a wonderful world. It was several years before I finally realized that the correct lyric was actually "the bright, blessed day, the dark, sacred night."

For years, untill the other day actually when i heard Gareth Gates' rendition of spirit in the sky, I thought the lyrics "when i die and they lay me to rest" were "when i die in the name of Terese" I thought maybe she was some kind of godess?!!! Never was good at religious studies!!!!!!!!

My mother whose name is June used to like the Beatles' song "Hey Jude" until she found out that it wasn't "Hey June".

I used to think that Elton John's "Sad Songs Say So Much" was the theme for the Gremlin's movie, only because of the lyric "they reach into your room".

I used to believe that the song "Janie's Got A Gun" by Aerosmith went like this "Janie's got a gun, hot spring pepper tongue" ("Janie's got a gun, her world's come undown")

I used to (and sometimes still do) hear the line from the Green Day song "Time of your Life" as:

"Tounge grabs you by the waist..." (Time grabs you by the wrist...")

and

"..Hang it on the shelf in good old-fingered time" (Still haven't figured out what he's saying here).