Misheard lyrics

[moodygirl86]

Green Day - 86

REAL: It's buried deep with your identity

MISHEARD: It's buried deep in your untangled hair

[smittykins]

some comedian in the early 1990's came up with this one, but I still remember every time I hear it--

Steve Miller Band:

Big old jet airliner

Bingo Jed had a light on

I've also seen:

Big old Chad had a light on

Ego Jan and the rhino

[Immafraid]

My cousin was a school teacher at a rough inner city elementary school many years ago. One morning, she thought she heard one of her 2nd graders singing,

"Shake your ass, watch yourself..."

Turns out, he was actually singing,

"Take a bath, wash yourself. Take a bath, show me what your washing with."

[rosethorne]

In high school I would hear Nelly's "Hot in here" and wonder about why someone would try and bend their butt...

Misheard lyric: tellin your best friend, like "girl I think my butt can bend"

Actual lyric: tellin your best friend, like "girl I think my butt gettin big"

[Mrs Ms]

Billy Joel? Uptown Girl

I always thought it was "upside down" and that made NO sense, lol

Brian Adams? Summer of '69

I never wanted to sing along to "I got my first real sex stream"

Actual lyric "I got my first real 6 string"

And my mother

Venga Boys - We like to party

Misheard "We're going to eat pizza"

Actual "We're going to Ibiza" (To be fair, they pronounce it the german/dutch way with the pronounced "z" and not the "th" sound)

This has been making it's way round my FB feed and the local news stations lately and the more I hear it, the funnier it becomes.

https://youtu.be/6E-iD3eIeJE

He is soooo convincing that I can't hear the real lyrics anymore!

[Gertie]

Simple Plan - I'm just a kid

Lyric: "what's another night all alone?"

I heard: "what's another night on the lawn?"

I sang it that way for ages until my younger siblings heard me and made fun of me. (The first time I ever felt "old and out of touch")

[ADoyle90815]

I'm surprised "There's a bathroom on the right" wasn't mentioned as a misheard lyric.

To me, when I read Dave Berry's Book of Bad Songs where there's a chapter on misheard lyrics, I can't listen to Paul Simon's Graceland song without laughing. "The way she brushed her hair and farted" was listed as the misheard lyric.

[mango_fandango]

When my mum was younger she used to think that the ABBA classic "Waterloo" was "Barnaboo". I don't know if she genuinely misheard or just remembered it wrong. She was only six years old, though.

[moodygirl86]

Christina Aguilera's Genie in a Bottle came on the radio at work yesterday. I was 12 when that track came out and I thought she was singing "I'm a gee-gee in the Bible"!

[moodygirl86]

David Zowie - House Every Weekend

REAL: Let myself go

MISHEARD: Hey bamboo

[CrackerbackJocks]

Righeira, "Vamos a la Playa," club hit in 1983.

REAL: Vamos a la Playa (let's go to the beach)

MISHEARD: Found myself a lawyer

youtube.com/watch?v=_arYY7KVAgc

[moodygirl86]

White Stripes - The Denial Twist

REAL: You should know that the doctors weren't kidding

MISHEARD: You should know that the dark is one kitten

[heagleca]

Manfred Mann, Blinded by the Light

Correct: revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

I heard (and was Confused and a little disgusted): wrapped up like a douche and a rubber in the night.

[lawlifelgbt]

The Sex Pistols, God Save the Queen

Correct: God save the Queen, the fascist regime

I heard: God save the Queen, the flesh-ist regime.

[browncoatslytherin]

"blinded by the light" by manfred mann

misheard: blinded by the light/wrapped up like a douche...

real: blinded by the light/revved up like a deuce...

still doesn't make sense to me lol

[moodygirl86]

When the Going Gets Tough - sounds a bit like "go and get stuffed"

Ultra Nate's Free:

REAL: My brother is in need

MISHEARD: My brother speaks Hindi

[roddma]

I thought for a long time Club Nouveau's remake of Lean on Me said 'swallow your bride". But I was young then and dont recall hearing the original until much later . I had parents stuck in a 50s rut and still are so I didnt know much Mowtown and classic rock until i got older..I looked up deuce and it's slang for a 1932 Ford.

[Elvis Presby]

I always thought the chorus to Heard it in a love song by Marshall Tucker band was Purty Little Love Song.

[melon]

On 9/8/2015 at 9:43 PM, browncoatslytherin said:

"blinded by the light" by manfred mann

 

misheard: blinded by the light/wrapped up like a douche...

 

real: blinded by the light/revved up like a deuce...

 

still doesn't make sense to me lol

He's talking about a car.I did not get it ,either,and I looked it up.

 

[smittykins]

Not me, but on a Facebook discussion about misheard lyrics, some said they thought Helen Reddy's "I Am Woman" went "I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers Two, Big Two and Four."

(It's actually "in numbers too big to ignore.")

[Jucifer]

This is my favorite article about misheard lyrics or 'mondegreens'.  I just read it again and I'm in tears.

http://www.uh.edu/~mbarber/mondegreens.html

[smittykins]

"Dead Man's Curve," Jan and Dean

MISHEARD:  Welcome back from Dead Man's Curve

REAL: Won't come back from Dead Man's Curve

(My version made sense to me since the narrator obviously survived, so somebody did come back.)

[moodygirl86]

Undertones - Jump Boys

REAL LYRIC: Jump boys are crazy they don't have no sense/Never getting lost in coincidence 

MISHEARD LYRIC: Jump boys are crazy they don't have no sense/Never getting lost on their way to the Thames

[Marmion]

I remember when I was young I misheard "El Shaddai" as "else ya die" , so I was frightened by this song , sung by Amy Grant .  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Shaddai_(song)  I had thought that it was saying that if we neglect to praise God , we'd get killed . 

[smittykins]

Bumping this up ...

The other day, I was listening to Paul McCartney’s “Uncle Albert/ Admiral Halsey” on my phone(I have an Apple Music subscription, which allows you to see the lyrics on the screen), and discovered that the line I have always thought was:

”He had to have a bath or he couldn’t get to sleep”

is actually 

“He had to have a berth or he couldn’t get to sea”

Mind. Blown.

(I mean, I can totally understand not wanting to go to bed dirty...)