Mis heard lyrics..- Page 2

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 8:47pm

My Uncle's favorite was Maggie Mae by Rod Stewart. The line "all you do is wreck my bed"..he thought was "All you do is WET my bed".

[POLisPOL]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 8:55pm

This site is perfect for this thread!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.journey-on.com/lyrics/

my favs:
From: "Tell Me On A Sunday"
Real Lyric: Take me to a park that's covered with trees
Heard as: Take me to a park that's covered with cheese

From: "Easy as Life"
Real Lyric: It's easy as life...
Heard as: It's easy as pie...

[Amneris]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 9:45pm

"I was in jail just before we met" - Mamma Mia
Real Line: "I wasn't jealous before we met"

"neverson babies die" - Out Tonight
Real Line: "Nevers and Maybes Die"- Out Tonight

[mominator]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 9:06am

OK here is one from Gavin Edwards "Deck the halls with Buddy Holly.. and other misheard Christmas Lyrics"

Misheard lyric: "Children go warm and sandy"
song "Children Go Where I Send Thee"
Actual lyric: "Children go where I send thee!"

[emonkeygirl]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 9:35am

My own personal one when I was 7-ish & was at the roller rink for a birthday party & I heard the song "Working My Way Back to You" by The Spinners. The correct lyric is "I keep working my way back to you babe, with a burning love inside". I, in my odd child brain heard, "I keep working my way back to you babe, with an Orrrrr-eo".
To this day, I have no idea why.
Maybe because we never had Oreos in my house (back in the day they were made with lard...blech).

Updated On: 8/3/04 at 09:35 AM

[Taryn]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 3:02pm

For years, I thought Simon and Garfunkel were singing "And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson. She's a slut more than you will know." (As opposed to "Jesus loves you...")

[FinnFanatic]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 3:07pm

This isn't really a misheard lyric so much as a question about one...

In Aretha Franklin's "RESPECT", I can follow it up through "R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me, R-E-S-P-E-C-T..." then I lose it.....but I jump back in with the "sock it to me sock it to me...etc.". What does she say in the middle there? Anyone know? I usually just make something up. To me, it sounds like "Take care of the T C P" but that makes no sense....anyone care to enlighten me? Updated On: 8/3/04 at 03:07 PM

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 8/3/04 at 4:17pm

I believe it's just "Take care, TCP."
As for misheard lyrics, I have a few.

Mambo No. 5-Lou Bega
I heard: "A little bit of Mardi Gras in my life"
The real lyrics: "A little bit of Monica in my life"

America - West Side Story
I heard: "Everything free in America/Pour us coffee in America"
Real: "Everything free in America/For a small fee in America"

[DAME]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 4:13am

bump

[paradox_error]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 4:59am

Oh, Flowery.

I always thought it was "like canonballs", not "highway canonballs"...

[cturtle]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 5:38am

walking in a winter wonderland

"in the meadow we can build a snowman
and pretend that he is sparse and brown"

"later on, we'll perspire
as we dream by the fire"

[KelRel]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 8:31am

cturtle I heard that one too.
"later on, we'll perspire
as we dream by the fire"

It would make sense, sort of...

[xxnewgirlxx]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:27am

From the Beatles "Get Back"

JoJo was a man who thought he was a woman.

Is that wrong?

[Elphaba]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:31am

I cannot believe no one posted this already...can't remember the song, or artist....but I always thought they were singing:

I'm your penis, I'm your penis and your desire....

when in reality they were singing I'm your Venus......

I was in my 30's before I was informed it was Venus

[thetheatrekook]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:36am

one of my favorites from FORUM...(came to be kind of a cast joke.)

instead of "Love is a test he's too young to pass."
it always sounded like "Love is a testes..."

and since we were all in high school/college, we were WAY mature about it. :P

[camerangel]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:48am

A friend of mine thought they were saying

"pink pajamas, penguins on the bottom" in Lion King. I dont know what they are actually saying but I know it wasn't that..

[zepka102]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:50am

my sister though that in Mandy Moore's "In My Pocket" she says:
"little red candies in my pocket"
when it's actually:
"nothing but pennies in my pocket"


and here's my biggest mistake:
"billy jean/she's got my glove"


made sense to me... Michael Jackson always had only 1 glove...

[Broadway_Baby]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 3:07pm

" 'pink pajamas, penguins on the bottom" in Lion King.' "


I was on a cruise last February and one comdedian made the the joke that no one really knows what they say in that section of the song and that it was easier just to chant "pink pajamas, penguins on the bottom", I found it completely hysterical.

[Katecab99]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 4:21pm

when i was a kid, i used to think that in "part of your world" (from "the little mermaid"), ariel said

"pregnant women, sick of swimmin', ready to stand"

instead of

"bright young women, sick of swimmin', ready to stand"


HA.

[katygrace84]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 4:27pm

Well, since she hasn't shared it yet I will. SorryGrateful had an unfortunate mixup with some Prince lyrics as a child. Prince's "mast*rbating with a magazine" became "mass debating with a magazine" to her. One of the cutest stories I think I've ever heard.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 4:32pm

Ingonyama negw' enamabala - a lion and a leopard come to this open place

Had to perform this song for a show.

[cathywellerstein]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 4:32pm

from phantom of the opera

"what a change you're really not a BITCH the gawkish..."

it's really

"what a change you're really not a BIT the gawkish girl..."


that was my friends mistake. not mine.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 4:32pm

Love all these old threads...

My roommate in college totally misunderstood the lyrics for "Rock the Cashbah"

I can't post them here...

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 4:37pm

Also, Stevie Nick's "Edge Of Seventeen"

I always thought it was:
It's not the world we know.

It took me ages to realize it was:
Just like the white-winged dove

[feinstein9]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 5:03pm

newgirl- yeah paul is singing "jojo is man who thought he was a woman, but he was another man." no misheard lyric there! just a song about jojo and sweet loreta.
in the song from merrily where mary says "burn your bridges start again," my sister thought for *years* she was saying "burn your britches, start again." and she was like, 20-something. why would mary want frank to burn his britches?? i have no idea.