Comedically Misheard Lyrics

What are some lyrics you heard wrong?





(I know there are past threads but I believe that conversational threads like these are less fun when resurrected years later)

"Right up here
Is where I store the Jews
And all that jazz"

"Yes you go

Downtown, where the cabs don't stop

Downtown, where the food is slop

Downtown, where the Hobbits flop in the snow

Down on Skid Row"

Ok....I rolled my eyes at this at first. But I'd be lying if I didn't say I lol'ed at these!

"I hid the letter and I raced to her place, screamed, 'I'LL CUT YOU IN THE FACE,' she said..."

There used to be a whole site dedicated to this. Enjoy, young ones!
http://web.archive.org/web/20050211215509/http://www.journey-on.com/lyrics/

For years I thought it was:



Baker's Wife: "Tell him the story of how it all happened, be father and mother, you'll know what to do"

Baker, awkwardly addressing the Baby: "Hello"



Also, I can't remember the exact contexts, but Sondheim mentions 2 instances in his book. one in which someone thought the lyric in Beautiful Girls was "bestial agree" rather than "best, you'll agree." The other was an anecdote he had heard about someone's child who, when asked how he enjoyed the opening night of Annie Get Your Gun, said he enjoyed the "hurricane song." He thought "My Defenses Are Down" was "Mighty Fences are Down." (I'm sure I have some context details wrong here - it's been a while since I read it)

I thought the lyrics in "Alexander Hamilton" were "Took a book collection just to send him to the mainland" instead of "Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland." I was very confused for a while, hahaha!

When Elton John released a new song on the radio decades ago I overheard my friend singing along to "Penny On Your Chest" which sounded just like "Bennie and the Jets" to me.

In "Washington on Your Side" from Hamilton when Madison says "which I wrote" I always heard "with Charo."

Obviously, I knew that was wrong but kept forgetting to look up the actual lyric. Now I just chuckle to myself when that part comes up or sing the Charo line instead.

Hahah, I love "Jamie has new dreams, he's building a pond!"

First time I listened to the album, I misheard this lyric in It's Quiet Uptown - "I don't intend to know, the challenges we are facing..." It seemed too hostile for a husband trying to win back his angry and depressed wife.

Funny thing is, Miguel Cervantes made that same mistake when I saw it in Chicago last week, I thought I misheard it again, but 3 people with me observed the same thing, lol.

"There are those, I suppose
Think we're mad, heaven knows
The world has gone to IRAQ and to ruin"

Don't know why I never questioned why a show set in the 20s would have a random reference to the (then current) Iraq war when I first heard Millie, but I just accepted it! SMH now.

sing_dance_love said: ""There are those, I suppose
Think we're mad, heaven knows
The world has gone to IRAQ and to ruin"

Don't know why I never questioned why a show set in the 20s would have a random reference to the (then current) Iraq war when I first heard Millie, but I just accepted it! SMH now.





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Are you sure that it's not "wreck"?