songs

I always thought when I was little that in the song Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer when kids add the other lyrics, i.e. Rudolph the red nosed reindeer reindder had a very shiny nose like a lightbulb, I thought I was the one who thought up Like George Washington at the end.

cool cat

When I used to ride in the car, i turned the radio up really loud and mouthed out the words, thinking that the surrounding cars would think i was an awesome singer!

Suset

Are used to think the song white lines was about salt

Anon

One sad and disillusioning day, many many years after my childhood, I discovered that "The Alphabet Song", "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "Baa Baa Black Sheep" all have exactly the same tune.

rAchel

I used to think the sound at the beginning of Wings' 'Silly Love Songs' was made by Paul McCartney swinging a squeaky door back and forth and dropping heavy chains on the floor.

queeneve

When I was in grede 3 or 4, my friend scott told me the words to "the 12 days of christmas" went "on the 1st day of christmas Osama gave to me... a blowtorch in a pear tree" This was meant as a joke but I really, truly believed those were the lyrics...Until i got in trouble for singing them at a holiday sing-a-long...

Dixie Chicks Fan

I used to believe when I was about 5 or 6 that the song "Downtown" was all about Halifax where I live

Anon

When I was young I thought that piano notes stood for words. Now I think about how could you play piano with them?

Sam

Growing up I used to believe that the national anthem was a song for the Atlanta Braves. After all, the last line is "And the home of the Brave" and in Atlanta, they say "Braves". I didn't realize this until I went to a game in St. Louis and they were singing the song too. HOW DARE THEY!!!

Ryan

I used to believe that when people on the radio sang "I love my baby" or "me and my baby" or "hey baby" they were talking about infants. I was very confused by "my baby left me." I believed this until I was 11 or 12.

Helen

I used to believe the song "Smooth Operator" by Sade was about a surgeon who liked doing operations, and the song "Do you really want to hurt me" by Culture Club was about someone wanting to hit Boy george.

Holly

Well, this isn't really miheard, ju8st misunderstood i suppose. There is a piece of classical music on guitar called air on the G-string, meaning guitar, but i wasn't too clued up on instruments at the time, so i thought it was like describing a blow-job or something.

No air on my G-string

When I was a kid, only having started learning to read a couple of years or so earlier, there was a popular song called "Patches" by Dickey Lee. The title character is a girl, of whom the singer laments that his parents forbid him to be in love with her because she's from the poor side of town. I remember for quite some time mistaking the name of the title character (and hence of the song as well) as "Hatches". I remember my sister getting a good laugh at me for thinking the song and character were named "Hatches". She acted as if it were crazy to think anyone would be named that. But why not? People ARE given unexpected names from time to time. Anyhow, I don't remember whether it was before or after the time that my sister got such a laugh at my expense in correcting my idea of tha name of "Patches", but I was in a record store and almost bought a record that I thought at first had the title "Hatches" on it. If it was after my sister corrected me, then I guess I thought I'd prove to her that "Hatches" was correct after all. It was the kind of single records of that era, known as 45s. Anyhow my hesitation to buy it started when I noticed the title wasn't exactly "Hatches", but had an "R" in it, making it apparently "Heratches" to the best of my ability to read at the time. It did seem that my sister had likely already told me that the real name was "Patches", as I vaguely remember already having some doubt about the name being "Hatches", a doubt all the more strengthened with doubt that "Heratches" could be the correect name. So I didn't buy the record. Thinking back on it through the years, and never learning that "Heratches" is a real word, I puzzled repeatedly over what could be the name of the song on that record I saw. Eventually as a grownup, I learned that there is a song called "Heartaches", and decided that that is in all likelihood the title that I mistook for "Heratches".

Constance

I used to think that if I sang in the car to songs, the people passing by in other cars would actually think I was the real singer!

maj

I always thought the line in the Carly Simon song about Warren Baity (not sure if the surname is spelt right - sorry Warren!) was about the 'wife of a postman' not a close friend.

close to forty

Ya know the song Im Blue by Eiffel 65? well before i seen the real name of the song.. i always thought they "da ba dee daba di" part was "im blue...i was beat i will die.." and i still think it sounds like it.. listen closely.. it does

Naz

i used to believe that if i thought of a song i would get it sucked out of my head and some pop star would make it

i also believed that if i would amke up a good line the media would come and interrigate you into telling them it

pop star man i will have conquest ofd pop

My wife still believes to this day, that the song that says, "down in the boondocks", is actually "down by the moon rocks". It is an ongoing disagreement of which I am right!

Ronnie

When I was wee, in the 60s, my parents took the family to sing-alongs many times. One favorite was Darlin' Clementine. I thought it was a sad song--I didn't get sarcasm at the time. But the worst was I thought the line in the chorus "Dreadful sorry" meant someone named Dredful was sorry for doing something wrong. Since She was "lost and gone forever" I thought the horrible thing he did was lose her (a little baby, I supposed). Maybe there are versions that are truly serious but the lines about kissing and hugging are pretty sarcastic. Maybe those lines aren't original, but thy're the ones I've always heard: In my dreams she still doth haunt me, Robed in garments soaked in brine. Though in life I used to hug her, Now she's dead, I'll draw the line. Repeat chorus How I missed her, how I missed her How I missed my Clementine. So I kissed her little sister, And forgot my Clementine.

joel

When I heard Zombie by The Cranberries for the first time I thought it was a russian band or something like that. I didn't know English really well back then (I'm Dutch and I was about 13 when I heard it for the first time), and to me she was singing something like eeeeeejawaaaaa. I thought 'cool, I didn't know they made such great music in Russia'. I really believed this for some months.

Annemie