Lyrics you always mis-heard but didn't know it

[Tobybar]

I think there were loads as a kid, probably because am radios were so rubbish.

One which I still sing wrong, even though I know about it, is Hot Chocolate's "I believe in miracles", which I always sing as "I believe in Milko", and I always say it when I see the last remaining milk float in our area coming up the road.

I must have misheard it as a kid and it kind of stuck.

I am sure I can think of many more, but while I do, please let me know some of yours.

[Trickyvee]

Re: Lyrics you always mis-heard but didn't know it

Good thread here

https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/t...isheard+lyrics

[goodbyetomaria]

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.....and you come to me on a sulpher bridge .....is it me you need to show, how deep is your love, is your love how deep is your love.....

[goodbyetomaria]

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....another one....Don't bring me down, Bruce, don't bring me down......
apparently, ELO would sing 'Bruce' for a laugh at their gigs because that's what the audience thought they were singing. So it was incorporated into the song. I don't know what the real lyric is, however.

[Twocky61]

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Has to be When the Going Get Stuffed which should have been When the Going Gets Tough by Queen if I remember rightly

[culnara]

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Queen??

[amethyst]

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Has to be When the Going Get Stuffed which should have been When the Going Gets Tough by Queen if I remember rightly

Billy Ocean sang that song also

[culnara]

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Billy Ocean sang that song also

yeah, but Queen never sang it

[Twocky61]

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Oh Culnara my memory's going lol

[culnara]

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Oh Culnara my memory's going lol

LOL comes to us all XD

[agfagaevart]

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I always thought that these guys sung: "I'm not talking 'bout your linen..."

I used to think "Why are they singing about her washing???"

[Richard1978]

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I always thought that these guys sung: "I'm not talking 'bout your linen..."

I used to think "Why are they singing about her washing???"

I've heard a few mishearings of this:

I'm not talking 'bout Boliva..."

I'm not talking 'bout bulimia..."

[darren]

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another is cotton eye joe i always thought it was cartman joe and scatman joe.
i just in the last few months realised it was cotton eye joe.

[Trickyvee]

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....another one....Don't bring me down, Bruce, don't bring me down......
apparently, ELO would sing 'Bruce' for a laugh at their gigs because that's what the audience thought they were singing. So it was incorporated into the song. I don't know what the real lyric is, however.

Wiki has this to say...

A common mondegreen in the song is the perception that, following the title line, Jeff Lynne shouts “Bruce!” . However, according to liner notes, he is actually saying a made-up word “Groos”. This is similar to a German word for “greeting”, Gruß possibly referring to the Bavarian greeting Grüß Gott the group would have heard while recording the album in Munich. However, after the song’s release, so many people had misinterpreted the word as Bruce that the band actually changed the lyrics and began to sing the word as Bruce.

Bruce does sound better!

[Richard1978]

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Wiki has this to say...

A common mondegreen in the song is the perception that, following the title line, Jeff Lynne shouts “Bruce!” . However, according to liner notes, he is actually saying a made-up word “Groos”. This is similar to a German word for “greeting”, Gruß possibly referring to the Bavarian greeting Grüß Gott the group would have heard while recording the album in Munich. However, after the song’s release, so many people had misinterpreted the word as Bruce that the band actually changed the lyrics and began to sing the word as Bruce.

Bruce does sound better!

I did wonder what it was.