Misheard song lyrics

Yup Sting did one version with Englishman, but the version I first heard was the Shinehead one. Hence heard Jamaican as John Major. It made sense to me, as JM was PM at the time (I think; I was awar of him being in the news anyway) so I thought they had made a song about him visiting other political folk around the world ?

Hahaha!

Snap!

I've only just found out it isn't - so thanks!

I also thought it was Eddie are you walking...

But I was a huge K D Lang fan at one stage and my mother snorted in disgust and said I can't believe you like those songs. I assumed it was going to be a homophobic rant from her lips but no... it was why on earth do you listen to someone singing about gravy?

She thought the song 'Constant Craving' was about someone who 'Can't stand gravy'. I could never listen to the song again after that...

I heard a Doobie brothers song on the radio yesterday and it became clear that they sing "listen to the music" not, as I belted out "woh, disco music"

I used to think the Kooks song said "I'm not from the Roskin" I always wondered what the Roskin was. Then my sister told me it is actually "I'm not fond of asking"

I was gonna say Bohemian Rhapsody 'Spare him his life from his pork sausages' but then realised that wasn't so much misheard when I was a child, as just my dad being my dad making up his own words.

Or how about

Let's pee in the corner, Let's pee in the spotlight (losing my religion)

a wealth of these can be found on the site http://www.kissthisguy.com (named for apparently one of the most commonly misheard lyrics, Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze rather than Kiss the Sky!)

Me and ex argued for years about the words to Wham's 'Wake me up before you gogo'. (before google was invented, , yes i'm old).

He used to laugh every time I sang 'You make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day'. He said it was 'you make the sun shine brighter on the dullest day'.

I was proven right one NYE while watching a karaoke TV show.

I bet that felt sweet! ?

Whoops! I thought that until l read your post...

Funniest thing l can think of is a friend of a friend thinking Kiss the Rain (random song from the 90's) was Quiche Lorraine!!

I thought it was 'not from the bustop'!

I have so many of these. My step daughter makes up her own words - 'we are never ever ever ever, getting back with Trevor / gona talk to Heather' is one of my faves!

I thought it said "You aint nothing but a hound dog, riding on time" till about 2 years ago. And I argued my case. Nobber me.

I did post on OT a few times months ago and haven't been on hitched for ages until recently so I hope you don't mind me wandering back in.

I was having a halloween party one year and was looking for halloweeney type songs, and I remembered a song my parents used to play where it says 'Halloweeeeeen'. I asked my parents about it but they didn't know what I was talking about. Turns out it's actually 'Eloise'.

I also thought the line in Africa by Toto was 'there's nothing that 100 men on Mars can ever do', apparently it's 'there's nothing that 100 men or more can ever do'.

Grease - "I'm the walawala" not "I'm the one that you want"!

I have a friend who used to sing the Fratellis Chelsea Dagger as "but I know you best as a badger" rather than "but I know you best as a blagger".

Also when we were in the car once Flo Rida "this club can't even handle me right now" was on and my H sang "this shrub can't even handle me right now"

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Trying so hard to swallow my giggles at work.

I never knew the words to 'two tribes go to war'. It's only recently that my husband told me its not infact '2 times count them all'

I don't even know why I thought that made sense!

I used to think alanis morisette was referencing a teddy bear when she she sand what I thought was cross eyed bear but was really cross I bare

Dire straits - " money for nothing and my chips for free ! "

I was brought up on Dire Straights and I remember thinking when i was a kid 'why would they want so many chickens even if they are free?'

This isn't a song, but one of my friend's dads honestly believed for years that the slogan was "have a brick, have a KitKat" thinking it was a reference to the solidity of a KitKat! This was before the Chunkys came out so it made even less sense!

Another Rihanna one.

'We found love in a homeless place'

I love these. My aunty always used to think that the theme tune to MASH was 'suicide is dangerous' instead of 'suicide is painless'.

My brother thought 'When I was Mary's prayer' was 'When I was EVERYWHERE'.

I've only just realised that in Billy Oceans caribbean queen the line is 'she passed by me in painted on jeans'. I was singing 'she passed by me and fainted on James' I just assumed James was his mate that he took clubbing with him!

Thought of another this morning. Billy Joel's - Tell her about it. I thought he said, 'Tell her about it, tell her everything you feel, give her every reason to accept that job for real'. It's accept that you're for real. Div.

Is it not "When I was Mary's girl" then? ?

Dragging this old one up, but:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23284179

What a brilliant thread! I was singing most of them in my head as I was reading!

I have lots too, some already mentioned here but my most recent one was I predict a riot....I though they sang I could eat a rabbit.........it does fit honest lol

OH laughs everytime it comes on the radio and eldest son sings my version all the time!

I love these kind of threads, genuinely laughed out loud to most! Off the top of my head I only have one:

There is an Emeli Sande song called Where I Sleep and up until this week I thought one of the lines were 'I send all the microbots to eagles..'

The real lyric: I said all my goodbyes to ego.

Where did I get microbots from???!

Ha! Have you read the comments? There's some right corkers on there. Head, shoulders, cheese on toast!! ?

Adding to the Rihanna list, I always thought 'it's like I checked into rehab' sounded like 'I've got a chicken in rehab'. Girl needs to learn to enunciate.

Also, I the song 'Buck Rogers' are Feeder drinking cider from a lemon or from 11? Had many debates about this!

This is brilliant - I am quite new to OT so just read this all the way through for the first time and it really made me laugh.

A friend of mine thought the lyric from Bon Jovi's Living on a Prayer that goes 'Gina works the diner all day' was 'Gina went and died of old age'!

When I was at college we used to hear Tori Amos's Professional Widow a lot when we went to clubs etc and the boy I was going out with at the time thought that when she said 'Honey, bring it close to my...' she was saying 'I'll probably bring you toast tonight'.