Wrong lyrics

[Star Attraction]

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Remember the Old Spice adverts of the late 70s and early 80s? I mean the ones which featured the song "O Fortuna" from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. Being as I was a kid at the time I thought the song went like this:

Old Spice Old Spice
Old Spice Old Spice
Old Spice a la la la-la
Old Spice Old Spice
Old Spice a la la la-la
(crescendo)
Old Spice Old Spice
Old Spice ah ah a la la Old-a-ning Spice

[jhgiorgi]

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Phil Collins against all odds. Cus we've shared the laughter and the pain, and even shared the cheese.

[Trickyvee]

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And having just looked at another thread, another revelation!

"And you'll always find him in the kitchen at parties"
I thought it was Barney's.

[lovetolookback]

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used to think kelly marie,feels like im in love was "feels like county row" for some reason.

[Trickyvee]

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I love this thread. I can think of a couple more.

Someone mentioned Good King Wenceslas. I bet there isn't a person here who didn't sing "Good king Wensless last looked out..."

I also sang "We three kings of Orientar". Thought it must have been some far off country.

[Richard1978]

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Speaking of La Isla Bonita, I thought San Pedro was some bagels.

At my school it was "Last night I drempt of potatoes....Young girl with eyes like potatoes...."

[wispa lover]

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Speaking of La Isla Bonita, I thought San Pedro was some bagels. In the chorus of Simon & Garfunkel's 'I am a rock', I thought island was onion.

[Powdered toast man]

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Madonna- La Isla Bonita. "Last night I dreamt of some petrol" and Papa don't preach I always thought was "bubble gum bridge"

[Star Attraction]

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Here's another misheard song circa 1985:

I don't want to change the world
I don't want to change a rainbow

The second line should really be "I'm not looking for New England"

[sludgeguts]

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bohemian rhapsody to me sounded like he was asking someone "spare him his life for his one sausage tea" and then he went on to sing about a "miss miller " who wouldnt let him go

i convinced my self that in ` message in a bottle` sting was telling us "a year has passed since i broke my nose"

and madonna in la isla bonita sang either "last night i dreamt of potatoes" or "last night i dreamt of lumbago"

"last night I dreamt of some daigo"

Brim full of asher always sounds to me like "William Booth Asher on the 45"

[kazboot]

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Back in the 1990s I heard a song by The Sandpipers which at first I thought went like this:

One for the meadow.
There's only one for the meadow.
One for the meadow.
There's only one for the meadow.

When I heard it another time I realised that was wrong, in fact it was in a foreign language. The chorus actually went more like "One tolla-merra", but I wasn't sure what.

Last night I found out it's actually "Guantanamera" - The Sandpipers

I always thought it was 'one ton of melons'

[Agnetha352]

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I am suprised that nobody has mentioned The Beatles "Paperback Writer" where on at least one occasion "She's a big teaser" is sung as Shes a ***** Teaser

My wife used to sing "Amullsha Cup" as in" Im in love I'm all shook up"

The Beatles song in question is actually 'Day Tripper', my friend.

[Trickyvee]

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A friend used to sing to the Ce Ce Peniston song "Finally it has happened to me, right in front of my face puffy lips can't describe it"

should be "my feelings"

It became our quote of choice whenever we saw Lesley Ash lol.

[gamerouche]

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Can't ever hear the song by KLF, 3am Eternal without singing along to the words..........................."Owing to the fact that Tom is a turtle"

It should of course be "Owing to the fact that time is eternal"

Gam

[willpurry]

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Dad once heard "Staying Alive" on an advert and thought it was "Raising a Laugh". ?!!?