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There's a line in David Bowie's song Golden Years which goes "C'mon, get up my baby..." which I always thought was "Go wallop the baby".  :teddyr:

Never mind about that, how about Jimi Hendrix's classic song "Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy" ~  :buggedout: :buggedout:

As a kid, I always used to think the chorus to Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach" was actually "Poppadoms Please".

My ex-fiancee always used to think Phil Lewis sang "Had my share of sh***ing girls, yeah" instead of "had my share of shady deals and girls, yeah", on L.A. Guns' "Sex Action"...Not that it made that song any sleazier or anything... :teddyr:

Sheila E. - The Belle of St. Mark

One line is:

"The woman that hurt him surely must have trouble sleeping"

I always understood:

"A woman that hurt him should have her head chopped off sleeping"

For years I thought those were quite brutal lyrics, for a rather innocent sounding dance-pop tune.

* Many years ago I worked with a girl who thought "Once upon a time in your wildest dreams" by the Moody Blues was "Once upon a time in your wild Irish dreams."

* I worked with another girl (at the same job as the one above) who thought the lyrics "You and me, endlessly" from the song GROOVIN' (by the Rascals) were "You and me and Leslie."

Just tonight the Scorpions' "Rock You Like a Hurricane" came on, and despite knowing the lyrics, I could have sworn they were saying something like "Raunchy like a hurried kid." I don't exactly know why a hurried kid would be any raunchier than a non-hurried kid, though...

And for the longest time, I thought Stevie Nicks' "Edge of 17" was about a one-winged dove, which is just sad for the poor dove. Oooh, baby, oooh, oooh.

I always thought ...

"Judy in the disguise" ... "Judy in the sky".

"Elvira" ... "I'll fire up".

Not now though, I know the correct words ... Yeah.

In the song "Bad Moon Risin" by Cleerence Clearwater Revival, I use to think the line in the song "There's a bad moon on the rise" was "there's a bathroom on the right".  For their version of "Proud Mary", I had no idae what some of the lyrics really were.

I used to think Kim Carnes said "All the boys think she's a spazz, she's got Bette Davis Eyes".  I've known a lot of hyperactive girls, so it made perfect sense to me.

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The Moody Blues have always been my favourite group.  :smile:

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In "Bilinded by the Light" by Manfred Mann (I have not heard the Springsteen version) - I heard "wrapped up like a New Shendaga runner in the night" for the line "Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night"  (Always wondered what native group that might be...and why they wrap up to run?)

In "Santa Maria" by Trooper: I still hear "cruisin on a soggy boat" in place of "cruisin on a sardine boat" - I like my version better!

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Seeing as how Manfred Mann is actually Manfred Lebowitz from Sydenham, Johannesburg, that native group could be even members of my own family.  :teddyr:

In A Big Country by Big Country I always sing the line "I wouldn't expect to grow flowers in the desert"..."I wouldn't expect to go crawling through the desert".

Actually, I thought the same thing until just now, when I read that. :teddyr:

Surprised Toto's Africa hasn't made it into the thread yet. I always could have sworn it went "There's nothing that a hundred men on Mars could ever do." I once told this to my friend, and he said he always thought it was "a hundred men on board." Knowing the actual words, "a hundred men or more" makes much more sense.

The same friend once sang a few bars of Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald that involved a Mexican with a gun. :question: I have no idea how he came up with that, and when I told him the song was about a shipwreck in the 1970s, neither did he.

Silly! Everybody knows it's really "wrapped up like a douche"!  :twirl: :bouncegiggle: :teddyr:

"just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby"
Angel Of The Morning Juice Netwon

"just brush my teeth before you leave me baby"
DarkSider's version

Exactly what I hear :thumbup:

MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND "...wrapped up like a douche into the rumor of the night...Blinded By the Light!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcWVL4B-4pI

Does anyone else hear "And the little early birdie gave MY ANUS CURLY WHIRLY and asked me if I needed a ride"?  I do.  It's my favorite part of the song.

YES! That's hilarious! I had to go pee while the song was playing and I couldn't stop laughing and well, now I have some cleaning to do...

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Yep, that's what it sounds like.

A more recent one for me is Sting's Desert Rose. "This way she moves" comes out sounding like "squishy boobs."

Gee, nigh on 35 years and I always had that line right... now that'll never get out of my head. 

No ... what part does that happen? ... When the other guy starts singing?

The line is at 2:44 minutes where they sing: "...and go-cart Mozart was checking out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside... and little hurly burly came by in his curly wurly and asked me if I needed a ride..."  

Oh sit' lol ... It DOES sound like that! Thanks Allhallowsday.  :bouncegiggle: :twirl: :bouncegiggle:

These are all good entries.  Another one I'll throw on the fire is a line from Bennie And The Jets.  She's got electric boobs, my mom has two, you know I read it in a magazine, oh.. 
Well, I haven't checked since I was an infant, but I'm pretty sure my mom has two.

David "Hutch" Soul's one hit back in the 70s, Don't Give Up On Us, has a line: "Don't give up on us. I know we can still come through." When I was a kid, I always thought the line was "Don't give up on a silo. We can still come through."

It's all in the way the lyrics are matched to the music. It comes up first at 1:05.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY8APrYU2Gs

We were listening to the radio in Seattle when they started playing "What's This Life For?" by Creed.  Ughs aside, my mom says, "Did he just say, 'Where's the a***ole?'" 

Later that same trip they played "Cat Scratch Fever."  My mom started singing, "Can't crunch peanuts!" 

English is her second language, in case anyone's wondering. 

That would have greatly improved the song.

I gained a new found respect for it.  Only for that short while, though.

Yes, I also thought that was the actual line.  :bouncegiggle: :teddyr:

Sade - 'Smooth Operator'

what my 7 year old self heard: "Smooth Upper Red Eye".



there's a site dedicated to this stuff @ http://www.kissthisguy.com/

I think it's "...racked up like a deuce another runner in the night..."  SPRINGSTEEN fans must know what's correct. 

That godawful Fall Out Boy song where the chorus goes "Dance, Dance" - I always heard it as "Tits, Tits", cracks me up every time I ever have the displeasure of hearing it.

I thought it was "revved up like a deuce," as in a deuce coupe.

Of course, even knowing that, I still prefer to sing "wrapped up like a douche, another boner in the night." :teddyr:

My sister used to think that "living on a prayer" was "living on a prairie"

In Springsteen's version it's "cut loose like a deuce" and in Mann's it's "revved up like a deuce." 

Cut loose a deuce? I think that's worse than wrapping a douche!  :bouncegiggle: :twirl: :bouncegiggle:

Smells Like Teen Spirit "A mosquito, my libido" I always thought was "a mosquito, not a beetle". 

Makes slightly more sense your way.

at the end where he repeats "A Denial...A Denial..." I thought he was saying "Burning Nylon", lol

also in 'Lithium' there's a line "That's OK, My Will Is Good" which I thought was "My Willy's good"

In David Bowie's awesome "Suffragette City" it sounds like he says "you ain't got time for chicken" - but the lyric is really "you ain't got time to check in".  :teddyr:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLnPd7lzT4g

I heard the song "Know The Enemy" by Green Day today and swore instead of saying "Do you know the enemy" he was saying "Jews are the enemy..."   :buggedout:

Not about misheard lyrics, but related. I had a good laugh during our local Christmas tree lighting ceremony last weekend. The organizers had a round of informal carol singing while they got ready to light the tree. By informal, I mean no song sheets and led by whatever moderately musical person they could Shanghai on the spot. For the most part, people knew the words - until they got past the first verse. Then it was the sound of a significant portion of the crowd singing the words they knew, in between mumbling and trailing off until they got to another part they knew. Honestly, it was the most fun I've had at a carol sing in years. :teddyr: Reminded me of that SNL sketch - Ten Beatles Classics You Kind of Know the Words To.

A recent one ~ Mika's We Are Golden ~ with its' line "Teenage dreams mean a teenage circus". I misheard it the first time as "Teenage dreams mean teenage turtles"  :lookingup: :lookingup: :teddyr:

Mastodon-I am Ahab

The opening line is: "There's magic in the water". But when I first heard it, I could've sworn he said: "Flash my chicken".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy8NdJTOR9E

Blind Willie Johnson's gospel song "Sweeter as the Years Go By" contains the inspirational lyrics

"Richer, fuller, deeper,
Jesus' love is sweeter..."

However, all I can ever hear when he sings them is

"The rich are fully eaten.
Jesus, live in Sweden!"