There must be loads of them.
A mate of mine thought that in the Sham 69 song the line was ....
"I've got a hairy camel" instead of
"Hurry up Harry , come on".
Misheard Song Lyrics
When I was a kid, I was convinced the line in Bohemian Rhapsody,
"Mama, just killed a man."
Was actually,
"Mama, just killed a bear."
Much to my brothers annoyance, which actually fuelled me to carry this on, long after I realised I was in fact wrong.
I always thought AC/DC's Dirty Deeds main lyrics were "Dirty Deeds and the dunder chief" when it's "dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap".
The Kaiser Chief's I Predict A Riot title line I thought was 'Angry Tourettes' until I found out what it was called. That sounds ridiculous but if you listen to the song, you'll know what I mean.
Dan
I thought Town called Malice was a Clown called Alice, for years & years.
going back years, to when Ghostbusters first came out, and I was very young, I actually heard the song before I'd heard about the film, and I thought Ray Parker JR. was saying "Who ya gonna call? Those Bastards!"
maisydotes and dosydotes and lidlelamsiedivy
that should have been
#Mares eat oats and Does eat oats and little Lambs eat ivy#
I know, that's going back to the 40s!!!
Song 2, Blur "I lie and I'm easy" I thought was "A lion amazing!"
Two of my favourites are:
'Go and get stuffed!' instead of 'Going gets tough' by Billy Ocean
and the king of misheard lyrics:
'Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you' by Paul Young
Hold me closer, Tony Danza.
'Won't you ride on time'
I thought was
'An orangutan'
I thought in Art-I-Ficial by X-ray Spex, it went "I wanna be instamatic, I wanna be a frozen pea..."
...Then I found out it actually does...
My wife has a habit of telling me alternative lyrics to songs and forever more I cannot hear the original song as intended.
KT Tunstall did a song called 'Suddenly I see' which has the lyrics:
Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)
This is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)
Why the hell it means so much to me
What I now hear is:
It's Leigh-on-Sea (Leigh-on-Sea)
This is where I wanna be
It's Leigh-on-Sea (Leigh-on-Sea)
Why the hell it means so much to me
[sigh]
Quote: bushbaby @ February 13, 2008, 2:57 PMmaisydotes and dosydotes and lidlelamsiedivy
I heard the very same thing and I had no idea what it was about. Still don't really.