Wrong lyrics

[Trickyvee]

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I also had problems with 'You're the one that I want' from Grease. Not so much misheard lyrics as not hearing any lyrics at all in the chorus. Thought it was "wadalawa oo aa oowala, oo oo oo". For all I knew they could have been launching into the Mauri Haka.I was pretty young, but old enough to have known better!

[culnara]

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re-reading through the post reminded me of another one
now since i can remember, I always sang " Good King Wensless Last looked out "
when of course he never last looked out of anything ><
I didn't know his name was " Wenceslas " till a work mate corrected me and pointed out my error
that was only 6 years ago

still miss ye George

[The Low Country]

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My sister always insisted that the Kids from Fame sang 'Hide The Guillotine, Hide, Hide' and not 'High Fedelity, High, High'

[Richard1978]

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I used to think REM were singing about "Zoe Wanamaker" in The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight.

[Thunderbird2]

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I always thought that Sting was singing 'Sue Lawley' (The Nationwide presenter) instead of 'So Lonely'

[sixtyten]

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Blondie's Heart Of Glass has just played on Soma FM.
I'd always (don't ask me why) assumed the end of the chorus was "Riding High, I'll go up to the Sewage Line"

Just googled it.. "Riding high on Love's true blueish light"

I know which one I prefer

[wispa lover]

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Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal

v - Annie are you OK
x - Annie are you walking

I thought a particular lyric for 'Working my way back to you' went like
'Now the lights are low and only a lion could prowl, girl I guess we're too slow.'

As for xmas carols, mind if I add 'while shepherds washed their socks by night'.

[Marillion]

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Misheard lyrics - oh, they're always good fun.

UP THE JUNCTION by Squeeze

Actual lyrics:

This morning at 4.50
I took her, rather nifty
Down to an incubator
Where thirty minutes later
She gave birth to a daughter

My misheard lyrics:

This morning out for fifty
I took her round the nifty
Down to her naked painter
Where thirty minutes later
She gave that to a doctor

STRANGE TOWN by The Jam

Actual lyrics:

They all ignore me 'cause they don't know
I'm really a spaceman from those UFOs

You've got to wear the right clothes

Be careful not to pick or scratch your nose

My misheard lyrics:

They all ignore me 'cause they don't know
I'm reelin' for some space on the tube - elbows!

You've got to wear the right clothes
Or else someone might smash your nose


But it's not just pop song lyrics that can be misheard. Christmas carols can be, too:

Good tidings we bring
To you and your king

Cooking Wenselas looked out

And even nursery rhymes:

I had a little nut tree
Nothing would it bear
Buttersilver nutmeg
And a golden pear

[Cartimand]

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I had trouble understanding lyrics by a couple of female singers. For years I thought Hazel O'Connor was singing about "Don Carlos" and felt a right idiot when I discovered the song was actually "Dawn Chorus".

Also I wondered what the hell Chrissie Hynde was on about singing that she got "bras in pocket" and was "gonna use my sausage".

[leggingslover]

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Just another man next monday

instead if " just another Manic Monday" by The Bangles

[DeptfordDraylons]

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It was "Honey Honey" by ABBA.

"You're a love machine, ooh you make me dizzy" is, I believe, the correct lyric.

As a child, I always seemed to hear it as "You're a lump of sh*t, ooh you make me feel sick"!

[zip55]

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My wife used to always sing the wrong words to a song I think was from the Pinocchio movie ... "Hey diddly dee, a Captain's life for me" somehow became "Hey diddly dee, the cat is after me" ...

[hal9001]

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My mates mum thought "Sad Sweet Dreamer" by Sweet Sensation was "Sexy Dreamer" and she got upset when "Ghostbusters" was popular. She thought they were singing "Dam b****ds"

I thought the line in "Just The Way You Are", "I never want to work that hard", was "I never want a word at all"

[wispa lover]

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REM's 'Losing my religion', that's me in the corner - let's pee in the corner.
ABBA's 'Super Trooper', called you last night from Glasgow - saw you last night in Tesco.

[bigjed]

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Also,for years I wondered what a 'Parmy' was.Some sort of gastronomical delight,perhaps? Well after hearing 10CC sing 'Life is a minestrone,served up with Parmys and cheese' what was I supposed to think???