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Misheard song lyrics that still make you smile years later

113 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

OP posts:
Nearlyadoctor · 06/08/2026 10:08

Lilly Allen - Fuck you lyrics. I heard it as thank you and Dd who was only just 2 and I used to sing it driving to nursery in the mornings.

“ Thank you - thank you very very muuuuuch”

Goodness what anyone would have thought if heard the song as we arrived !! 😂

AnchorWHAT · 06/08/2026 15:30

When i called you last night from Tesco 😳

5128gap · 06/08/2026 17:25

Digerydont · 05/08/2026 22:45

Jojo was a man who thought he was a woman, but he knew it couldn't last"

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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username2185 · 06/08/2026 17:29

I’m gunna take my horse to the hotel room

MarilynMerlot · 06/08/2026 18:03

Daft Punk - Get Lucky. That tech-voice repeat of ‘we’re up all night to get’ in the middle sounds exactly like ‘we’ll rob a mexican’

IndigoSkye · 06/08/2026 18:07

Sugarnspicenallthingsnaice · 05/08/2026 22:44

A 4yo singing Beyonce:

"All the singlets! All the singlets."

And she did the dance too, it was hilarious and her version has been my version ever since.

My daughter thought this was ‘singer legs’. we also spent a long time trying to work out what the dragon song was - she thought ‘Moves like Jagger’ was ‘Moves like dragon!’!!

Nautiesdese · 06/08/2026 18:45

Too many women, and too many lids

Nautiesdese · 06/08/2026 18:47

FFSItsTooHot · 06/08/2026 00:40

You Sexy Thing by Hot Chocolate. Bearing in mind I was only about 10 or 11 at the time,I thought he was singing 'I believe in Malcolm',not 'I believe in miracles'.

I believe in Murco

MargoChanellingBarbara · 06/08/2026 18:58

I love Cecile - our lips are sealed

TisEye · 06/08/2026 18:59

That club classic Nightcrawlers one 'Push the Feeling on'

Apparently the lyrics were:
'Oh 'n their lives again
Oh 'n their lives will pull us...'

I genuinely thought it was
'I lives again
To lie in a pool of sperm'

Early 00's Dance wasn't really about the words.

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 😅

Blanknotebook · 06/08/2026 19:33

I was doing the ironing singing “I’m honey, honey, honey, honey!” I thought it was about a sweet person. My young son asked me to stop singing that song, it was actually “I’m horny!” I soon shut up!

chattyness · 06/08/2026 19:41

"You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, 4 hundred children had a crap in the field"

Still not sure if that was misheard or if we made it up as naughty children to annoy/embarrass the parents while we fell about laughing 😆

redhit · 06/08/2026 19:43

Wife of a postman instead of wife of a close friend Carly Simon your so vain Blush

ShesRunningOutTheDoor · 06/08/2026 19:47

You know I’m bad I’m bad you know it I’m bad and the whole world’s got an enterprise ship can you tell me once again who’s bad

maxandru · 06/08/2026 19:52

Sugarnspicenallthingsnaice · 05/08/2026 22:44

A 4yo singing Beyonce:

"All the singlets! All the singlets."

And she did the dance too, it was hilarious and her version has been my version ever since.

Caught my 5 year old singing “I’m a cigarette, I’m a cigarette” yesterday.

Also enjoyed her rendition (age 3) of “Away in a manger, no crisps in the bed”

Legomum789 · 06/08/2026 19:52

Listening to Simon and Garfunkel many years ago (The Boxer) my DD (7) asked why he went to see the horse on Seventh Avenue
Quick thinking me …maybe he really likes horses

MrDobbs · 06/08/2026 19:57

Digerydont · 05/08/2026 22:45

Jojo was a man who thought he was a woman, but he knew it couldn't last"

I read this and thought "but those ARE the words". It's only thanks to your post that I now realise they aren't.

newrubylane · 06/08/2026 20:12

CluelessAboutBiology · 05/08/2026 23:03

La Isla Bonita “Young girls with eyes like potatoes” and “chocolate covered island dreams”

I always thought it was "a young girl with eyes like a feather". Not sure how that would work.

When we were kids my brother thought Alanis Morissette was singing 'the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me'.

Blushingm · 06/08/2026 20:15

Start ship nothings gonna stop us now ‘and we can build this world together, Stanley’s gone forever’

Blushingm · 06/08/2026 20:16

MrDobbs · 06/08/2026 19:57

I read this and thought "but those ARE the words". It's only thanks to your post that I now realise they aren't.

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Me too!!!!

Blushingm · 06/08/2026 20:19

CosiFannyTutte · 06/08/2026 09:16

Knights in white satin.
Reverend Blue Jeans.

This year, to semi-frontiers, you gave it to someone special. ('Last Christmas').

Also: He's got his trombolese.

Edited

We used to sing ‘he’s got his tumbleweeds’

Shinyhappyapple · 06/08/2026 20:26

Digerydont · 05/08/2026 22:45

Jojo was a man who thought he was a woman, but he knew it couldn't last"

Must admit I thought this too.

HermioneWeasley · 06/08/2026 20:32

Ansells · 05/08/2026 22:46

My love has got no morals, he got his trampoline…

Oh please. Everyone knows her lover’s got no money but he’s got his trombolese

Pinkchickenwine · 06/08/2026 20:42

Kenny Rogers

With 400 children and a crop in the field