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Misheard song lyrics that still make you smile years later

118 replies

TheAverageJoanne · 05/08/2026 22:39

I saw this post elsewhere today.

I heard Simon Mayo playing Coming Up by Wings today. Not heard it for years, my dad used to think he was singing Tommy Yogurt

Other gems included ....

Macy Gray - I wear goggles when you are not here

DJ Luck & MC Neat - Ali with the mittens on, Ali with the mittens on (repeat several times)

The Wanted - She can't sing, she can't dance, but who cares, she walks like my nanna

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D1nnerthyme · Today 09:36

Parmesan Parmesan - OMC How Bizarre

Summeriscumin · Today 08:36

Abba - Since I saw you last night in Tesco's.

GaaNeen · Today 08:10

Oh, oooooh sweet China man 🎶

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Yello24 · Today 08:10

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
With four hundred children and a crop in the fields.

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TheAverageJoanne · Today 08:02

I always thought Pete Wylie was singing it's simple, it's magic ...

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Darragon · Today 02:48

Come on Annie, ohhohh Come on Annie (Come on Eileen… it was only when they were on Family Guy doing the Lois sketch that I realised 😂)

All that she wants is chips and peas and gravy, she’s going tomorrow. I remember all my friends singing this so clearly I wasn’t alone.

Oh Carolina (ba daa dum…) jump across. I thought she was trying to jump across a stream as brook jumping was THE activity when I was a kid.

From No Scrubs: Looking out the passenger’s side, best friend’s side, tryin’ to hollow out me.

ruethewhirl · Today 02:23

I've never been able to listen to 'Boxerbeat' the way it was intended since someone wrote in to Smash Hits saying 'Why are they doing the butter bean?'

Oh, and I just remembered I always heard the first line of 'Israelites' by Desmond Dekker as 'Get up in the morning eating your breakfast' (it's 'Get up in the morning slaving for bread, sir') and could never work out how you could be already eating your breakfast as you were getting up. Tbf I would have only been about 7 at the time that song was re-released in the 70s, but I totally missed the more famous mondegreen of 'me ears are alight' in the same song...

strawberryshortcake1 · Yesterday 19:01

Alicia Keys - New Yooork, concrete jungles and green tomatoes

TheDogsMother · Yesterday 18:55

Anne-Marie Ciao Adios I’m done. Actually sounds like shower the horse I’m done. Listen and you will never be able to unhear it.

malloryknox123 · Yesterday 17:48

My DS aged 5 or so :

what’s that coming over the hill, is it a bus stop is it a bus stop?

Lentilcakes · Yesterday 17:02

‘Those pirate ships they rabbi’
Redemption Song (it’s rob I).

Tworedgeraniums · Yesterday 16:43

I’m so honey honey honey

DD was five. I wasn’t putting her right.

IDroveAllNightAndCrappedInYourRoomIsThatAlright · Yesterday 16:35

Goldenboysmum · 06/08/2026 19:06

When my DD was about 12 she asked what song I used a play a lot, the only bit she could remember was it was about a Cilla Black fan on a bike

Turned out it was Meatloafs Bat out of Heĺl and it's a silver Black phantom bike

Shes now in her 40s and we've never let her live it down 😅

She will be very, very, very far from the only British person who ever heard it like that!!

IDroveAllNightAndCrappedInYourRoomIsThatAlright · Yesterday 16:32

Hands-down, the best ever mis-heard lyric has to be The Four Seasons and Let's Hang On To What We've Got.

Just after 2 minutes in, Frankie is allegedly singing "Give me a second turning" (which isn't actually a phrase and doesn't actually make sense anyway); but no matter how many times you listen to it, nothing will ever convince me that he isn't singing "Give me a feckin' turnip!" Grin

IDroveAllNightAndCrappedInYourRoomIsThatAlright · Yesterday 16:28

5128gap · 06/08/2026 17:25

Its sweet Loretta Martin (in the next verse) thought she was a woman but she was another man.
So easy mix up.

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The Beatles were quite ahead of their time when it came to 'gender identity' and people nonchalantly changing their pronouns.

In Ob-la-di-ob-la-da, verse 3 says:
Molly stays at home and does her pretty face
And in the evening, she still sings it with the band

In verse 4, it says:
Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face
And in the evening, she's a singer with the band

I suppose the 'she' in v4 could be referring back to Molly, but in the light of the previous line and the fact that it's already said still in v3, but is now presenting it as new information, I can only assume that Desmond was jealous of Molly and wanted in on it too!

IDroveAllNightAndCrappedInYourRoomIsThatAlright · Yesterday 16:21

I don't think I can actually think of one.

Shinyhappyapple · Yesterday 16:00

RobertJohnsonsShoes · 06/08/2026 22:29

Might as well face it you're a dick with a glove

I’ve not seen that before - love it !

chergar · Yesterday 12:00

BalloonSlayer · 06/08/2026 21:22

I know it can't be this but in Dead Ringer for Love, when he sings "You've got the kind of legs that do more than walk," I can never catch her reply but to me it sounds like "I don't have to listen to this wankerish talk."

Frankly I reckon that whatever the real lyric is, it probably isn't as good as mine.

Big fan of the later exchange:
"You've got the kind of lips that do more than drink"
"You've got the kind of mind that does less than think!"

I think it’s “i don’t have to listen to your whimpering talk”.

MrDobbs · Yesterday 10:15

"Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche under the runner in the night".

The actual lyrics don't make any more sense anyway.

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TheAverageJoanne · Yesterday 08:07

Well good morning Judge, how are you today?
I'm in trouble, please put me away
A Great Dane took a shine to me

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CrocsNotDocs · Yesterday 07:57

The Boys of Summer

After the poison summer has gone.

Rubickscubed · Yesterday 07:51

My DS sings You Could Be Mine lyric “your cocaine tongue” as “your cooking’s on”, like Axel Rose would be making a nice casserole! He’s a teen and I haven’t corrected him yet!

BeardySchnauzer · Yesterday 07:48

MPforTitipu · 06/08/2026 21:48

Bob Marley, Is this Love. 'we'll be together, with a roof rack over our heads'

And Abba, Chiquitita, 'now I see you've broken a finger,'

Edit, missed a bit

Edited

I thought the Bon Marley one was the lyric!

RobertJohnsonsShoes · 06/08/2026 22:29

Might as well face it you're a dick with a glove

GlensHutchisonsRobertsonsStephek · 06/08/2026 22:05

I was going to say 'take a load off fanny' by The Band. Turns out the lyrics ARE fanny, not Annie.

Guess I'm the fanny then.