Misheard lyrics

[rnd4life]

A recent one for me is Hollaback Girl. I thought she was saying "I ain't no Harlem black girl."

I LOVE reading misheard lyrics, always gives me a good laugh.

 

[Missamoncus]

My stepdaughter used to sing:

Secret Asian Man instead of Secret Agent Man , and of course
I'l never forget the day I heard her 10 year old voice belting out a Tina Turner classic from the back seat of the car. She sang, " What's love but a second hand in motion?."
It's funny this thread came up, She turned 23 yesterday and her dad and I called her and sang her own special version of "What's Love Got To Do With It?" to her over the phone. She'll never live it down.

Melissa

 

[RadioFanatic]

I've had a couple

INXS = Super Sonic Blond - I thought it said soup and salad bar - and at the time I worked at Shoneys which had, yes, a soup and salad bar.

Also, When I watched "hit me baby one more time" this summer - I remembered another song I where I had a line REALLY messed up - Irene Cara's "What a Feelin'" from Flashdance

You know the line "Take your passion - and make it happen"

well in high school, I honestly thought she said

"Take your pants down - and make it happen".

It wasn't until my hubby caught me singing it years ago where he died laughing and told me of my mistake - I still get a giggle out of that.

 

[HTH]

"Baillamos....Yo quiero une burrito...." is one of my misheard lyrics, and another is a song by Tatu ( I do not even know the name of the song) where I swear they are singing "Oscar De LaJoya... De LaJoya"!

I think I know what song you are talking about. Is it "Not Gonna Get Us"?

 

[Maleficent13]

The Who's "Who Are You?"...until last week I thought he was singing "Cool Water".

 

[LindsayDunn228]

My co-worker's little boy would sing the line "Put another dime in the jukebox baby" from Pat Benatar's I Love Rock n Roll as "Put another dime in the juice box baby"

BTW, that isn't Pat, it's Joan Jett

 

[laurabelle]

Thanks for starting this... I really need a good laugh this morning!

Here's mine:
Journey- "So now I come to you with open arms..."
My version- "So now I come to you with broken arms..."

Paul Young- "Every time you go away, you take a piece of me with you."
My version- "Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you."

Even though I always knew the right lyrics, once I got these in my head I could never hear them the right way again.

 

[Good Ol Gal]

Well.. I have tons of songs that I don't know all the words to, but I tend to just fill them in with "da-da-d-a-da-da-da" until I can get back on track

 

[SplshMtn99]

Mine is Stings "House of Stone & Light".

I swear he says "I will not put poop in my eye".

Funny thing is, the radio station had callers call in.....and NO ONE does know what he is actually saying.

I've never found it on any website either.

 

[HeatherinNC]

I think this is a Loverboy song, and I was very young when it came out- Workin for the Weekend.
Supposed to be : Everybody wants a little romance
As sung by me: Everybody wants a little old man

 

[Bobbysdog]

DD always used to sing along to Pete Townshend's "Let my love open the door" when we played it in the house or car. The problem was, she always sang the chorus as "Let Mama open the door". When we told her what the real words actually were, she wondered who was going to open the door if Mama wasn't around to do it.......

 

[heart4pooh]

A long time ago, I was singing Steppenwolf's the Pusher as "The butcher man" instead of the Pusher man. My ex nearly peed his pants laughing as we were driving along...

 

[sweet angel]

DS used to sing "everybody dance now" as "everybody's pants down"! and ACDC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" as "hercules and the gosh darn cheese"

DBF sings Hote California as "you can check out any time you'd like, and you can hit the beach " and swears in Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher" the line is "I don't feel dirty"

 

[KingsFanInRI]

I just thought of another one.....

the theme to the kids' show Miffy has one that I kept getting wrong for the longest time, and I sometimes still forget that what I have in my mind is not what they are saying. The line is "Poppy Pig is also there" and for a while I was hearing "Poppy Pig is oh, so rare." I kind of thought that this was especially irresponsible since rare pig can lead to trichinosis

 

[DVC Jen]

I teach preschool and every year I teach the kids this song..

I'm H-A-P-P-Y
I'm H-A-P-P-Y
I know I am , I sure I am
I'm H-A-P-P-Y
HAPPY!

I about lost it (laughing) when one day during center time one of my students sat at the table singing "I'm H-A-peachy pie"

It was sooo cute!

 

[Mama Twinkles]

Everyone's posts are so hilarious. I had a Disney-inspired mis-hearing just today. Was listening to Jimmy Cliff's (Jiminy Cliff-et's?) album "The Harder They Come." I SWEAR it sounded as if he said "mouseketeer" a few times in the song "Shanty Town." It might be when he's saying "Police grow taller," but I'm not sure. Give it a listen and you'll see.

 

[Good Ol Gal]

Well I read this post this morning and couldn't really think of any examples of when I sang the wrong words... I knew I had done it MANY times but just couldn't think of any.


Then I'm in the car singing along to Carly Simon's You're So Vain, and all of a sudden it hit me... I bet I'm NOT singing this right.

I come home and I'm right... I am not singing it correct.

When she sings "the wife of a close friend, Wife of a close friend" I have always sang

the wife of a postman.. wife of a postman... Never could figure out why she always got such a bad rap.

 

[Pooh Girl 71]

How about when you're pretty sure you've got the words right and still have no clue what the song is about?? That's me and Blinded by the Light. I know the words but they make not a bit of sense to me.

my version of this song has "wrapped up like a douche on a Saturday night"

 

[AmyBeth68]

My DD was singing Elvis' "Hound Dog" as....

"Ain't nothin' but a howlin' dog", which I thought was cute!

I also used to think Hall and Oats were singing "Mandita" instead of "Maneater". Of course....I was totally confused b/c I had no idea what Mandita meant?! LOL

 

[DisneyDotty]

My DH's version of Michael Jackson's "Billy Jean"
Billy Jean is at my door
She says that I am the one
But the chair is not my size!