Misheard Song Lyrics

[GoldenTouch]

Cheap wine by Cold Chisel

Lyrics are:
Cheap wine and a three-day growth


I thought:
Cheap wine & a female goat

 

[VRBeauty]

For some reason Sweetie and I were watching The Band singing “Up on Cripple Creek” on The Ed Sullivan Show on YouTube tonight - a version that scrolls the lyrics.

Lyrics:

Now if there’s one thing in the whole wide world, I sure would like to see
That’s when that little love of mine, dips her doughnut in my tea..

Sweetie:

OH! I always thought that was “grips my g*nads in her teeth!

 

[missy]

From my DH...1970s. Creedence Clearwater.

"There's a bad moon on the rise"

He heard:
There's a bathroom on the right.





Voices Carry by Til Tuesday

"Voices carry"

He heard:
Mrs. Carrie


I just listened to both and you know what? I can see what he means.
ETA I meant to write, I can “hear” what he means.

 

[MamaBee]

Madonna “La Isla Bonita”. I hear..
“Last night I dreamt of some bagels”. I have no idea what it’s supposed to be!
Edited..I just looked it up..It’s..
”Last night I dreamt of San Pedro”
I wasn’t too far off..hahaha

 

[YadaYadaYada]

Madonna “La Isla Bonita”. I hear..
“Last night I dreamt of some bagels”. I have no idea what it’s supposed to be!

Ahhhh that is so funny….bagels!

It’s supposed to be “last night I dreamt of San Pedro”

I like your line better though!

 

[Kya]

There’s a Taylor Swift song (Blank Space) that has a line “got a long list of Ex lovers” and I always thought it was “got a lot of Starbucks lovers”

I still hear ‘got lonely starbucks lovers’ every time I listen even though I had clarified the lyrics ages ago

 

[Wink]

And the Witches are landing all on the line...

(Wichita lineman by Glen Campbell)

 

[Kim N]

DH was named after a misheard song lyric.

 

[Dandi]

One of our local radio stations has a mondegreens segment. A caller recently rang in about the song by Pat Benatar,

"Hit me with your best shot".

Which she swears is,

"Hit me with your pet shark".

Now I can't unhear it!

 

[YadaYadaYada]

I just read all these to DH @Dandi he was cracking up over pet shark lol!

 

[Dandi]

I just read all these to DH @Dandi he was cracking up over pet shark lol!

I get the giggle snorts every time I hear it now. Poor Pat

 

[AdaBeta27]

Someone made an entire video of misheard Gangnam Style lyrics.

 

[doberman]

My daughter said when she heard U2 sing Sunday Bloody Sunday, she thought the words were Someday buddy, someday.

 

[Garnetgirl]

Many years ago, when I was a kid -
How much is that doggie in the window, the one with the wagon in the tail.

 

[AGBF]

When I was a child we sang, "We Gather Together" in music class for Thanksgiving. (This was in the days when public schools did not worry much about separating Church and State for holidays.)

The words were:

" We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing;
He chastens and hastens his will to make known;
The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing.
Sing praises to his name; he forgets not his own."

I heard all the words correctly, but didn't understand them. I kept thinking they meant that the Lord didn't forget His own name.

 

[Mreader]

My daughter said when she heard U2 sing Sunday Bloody Sunday, she thought the words were Someday buddy, someday.

THAT IS HILARIOUS!!

 

[YadaYadaYada]

The Cowsills have a song called The Rain, The Park And Other Things. The actual song lyric is “I love the flower girl” but I always heard “I love to fly with her”.

Always thought it was a song about being on LSD

 

[Piper70]

We are the Champions by Queen.
“I’ve taken my bows. And my curtain calls”
Or as my sister sang it, “I’ve taken my bows, my Capricorn.”
What??

 

[Beagles]

Elton John's "Rocket Man" -- the correct lyric is "I'm not the man they think I am at home..."

What I thought forever: "I'm not a man who can fly a man home..."

Which struck me as odd since he was a rocket man, right?
The "Cold Heart" version with Elton and Dua Lipa is a total earworm!

 

[meely]

Great thread. I don’t know if Sit Down by James would be a song that many of you know? But it keeps repeating the lyric Oh Sit Down, Oh Sit Down, Sit Down next to me. Anyway this song got a lot of air play in the early nineties and I somehow convinced myself that it was Saddam rather than Sit Down and substituted accordingly. Sure I probably went around singing it as well, goodness knows what people thought. For my part I guess I heard the name so often that it seemed natural that someone would write a jovial song about the guy.

 

[DAF]

DH was named after a misheard song lyric.

While I was working in a bank in the 1990s (college years), the Fleetwood Mac song "Rhiannon" was playing and one of the tellers told me that she loved the song and named her daughter after the title. I chimed in that my sister named her Siamese "Rhiannon" as well. She said "Rhiannon? It's Brianna." When I said to her that the title was indeed "Rhiannon", she stood there with mouth open. At that time, her daughter was about 16. What was going through my head was "Are you gonna rename your kid?".

 

[DAF]

This next thought is a slight spin on the topic. While scrolling through TikTok, I get to hear sexually graphic song lyrics. People choose the music for their videos, but don't they understand the lyrics to them?

 

[LemonMoonLex]

"Secret Asian man, secret Asian man....giving me your number, taking away your handddd"

 

[ringbling17]

The alphabet song. I always say “L M N O P” as Elemenopee. My kids do it too. I never bothered to correct them either. I figured they would eventually realize it’s not one word.

 

[Jambalaya]

I misheard tons of song lyrics in the Eighties, but I can't remember them now. I remember looking at the lyrics on the album sleeves after being puzzled, and being amazed what some of them actually were. The singers shouldn't mangle their words so much!

Hit me with your pet shark! Oh man, that is PRICELESS!

I remember being really annoyed with Kylie Minogue's pronunciation of pourquoi in her song Je ne sais pas pourquoi. She said it poo-kwa instead of pour (silent r) kwa. I was like, It's not pronounced POO! That's something else altogether! Not quite the same thing, but related in terms of singers mangling words.

I mean, what's the use of having lyrics if listeners can't understand them??

Pet shark!!!

 

[DAF]

I misheard tons of song lyrics in the Eighties, but I can't remember them now. I remember looking at the lyrics on the album sleeves after being puzzled, and being amazed what some of them actually were. The singers shouldn't mangle their words so much!

Hit me with your pet shark! Oh man, that is PRICELESS!

I remember being really annoyed with Kylie Minogue's pronunciation of pourquoi in her song Je ne sais pas pourquoi. She said it poo-kwa instead of pour (silent r) kwa. I was like, It's not pronounced POO! That's something else altogether! Not quite the same thing, but related in terms of singers mangling words.

I mean, what's the use of having lyrics if listeners can't understand them??

Pet shark!!!

Ok, now I'm going to have the mangled version of "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" in my head all day. I heard the lyrics correctly all this time, but LOVE the pet shark change. Did weird Al Yankovic happen to do a parody of that song?!?! haha

 

[DAF]

A different kind of parody...

 

[Lookinagain]

For a long time I thought the song "Chuck E's in Love" by Rickie Lee Jones was "Junkies in love". I think it was at least a year or two before I learned the actual words.

 

[PinkAndBlueBling]

I thought Our Lips are Sealed was I Love Cecile. Couldn't figure out who the hell she was!

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18 Most Commonly Misheard Lyrics

In light of the recent Bruce Springsteen "Thunder Road" lyric debate, we've compiled 18 of the most commonly misheard song lyrics.

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I could do this all day. SO funny!

 

[VRBeauty]

Driving in the car the other day, listening to the end of “White Rabbit.”

Me: Oh my goodness, all these years I thought that last line was “keep your head.”

Hubby: Of course not, it’s “feed your hare!”

Either of which makes sense in the context or “Alice in Wonderland.”

The actual line is “feed your head,” which makes perfect sense in terms of Jefferson Airplane in Wonderland.