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

[Clare]

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The Bangles and Manic Monday always spring/sprang to my mind - as when they said "the boss is already there", I was certain they said "Bus" and more so given missing the Train a and "even if I had an Areoplane I'd still not get there on time"!!

I always thought it was "bus" until now!

[Trickyvee]

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I always thought it was "bus" until now!

SNAP! I always thought it was bus until about a month ago. It suddenly struck me that it's actually boss, but bus makes more sense.

[Trickyvee]

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Just listened to Brown Girl in the Ring from Boney M for the first time in years and I remember when I was younger that I thought they were singing about a "brown girl in the rain".

Me too. I used to sing it out loud when I was little and my parents never corrected me so I suppose they thought it was 'rain' too.

[zabadak]

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I had a friend at school who genuinely thought they were singing "Row, row, refugees" in Rasputin!

[onthebusesfan]

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I had a friend at school who genuinely thought they were singing "Row, row, refugees" in Rasputin!

lol ra ra ra vas putin

[Richard1978]

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I always thought it was "bus" until now!

I always thought it was that, I've been hearing it wrong for 32 years!

[George 1978]

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When I was watching the Christmas Day edition of TOTP there was a song that sounded in the lyrics as if the singer was singing "Tesco sober" - ironically, I was rather close to some alcohol from the aforementioned supermarket!

[ukbadge]

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My brother told me 'Mull of Kintyre' by Paul McCartney was actually 'bollicking time'....

[Jemima]

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That's funny ukbadge, and actually if you listen to it I can see how you might have believed him

[tex]

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Bryan ferrys version of jealous guy....ive been swallowing my pen (pain)

[Richard1978]

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I remember Marc LaMarr suggested Paul McCartney was singing about an Irish garage called Mulligan's Tyres.

[Semi42]

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Sister sledge “lost in music “ the line where they sing they “played for some crazy fans” sounds like “played for the Grizzly bears”

[philipdalton]

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This one, "Pilot of the Airwaves" by Charlie Dore, which got considerable airplay on Radio 2 when I was a kid.
https://youtu.be/SGKrgJZhpzk
The bit where she sings "People say I look weary, but that's just the company I keep" sounds like "People say I'm a queerie, but that's just the company I keep".

[Semi42]

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One way ticket by eruption

i always thought it was “one way ticket to the moon.”
wasn’t until it was on an old Totp on bbc4 a few weeks ago I realised it was one way ticket to the blues

[George 1978]

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Rock the Kasbah seemed to do wonders for the Gas Board.