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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

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TessTickle0 · 06/08/2026 20:51

Digerydont · 05/08/2026 22:45

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

But that is the song isnt it? 🫠

maltravers · 06/08/2026 20:55

BeardySchnauzer · 05/08/2026 23:50

Is that not the lyric!!!

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I’m glad I’m not alone here…

AgentPidge · 06/08/2026 20:59

There's a bathroom on the right
(Credence Clearwater Revival)

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whatwasthatnoise · 06/08/2026 21:00

Duran Duran Girls on Film, all I hear is 'Go Home Bill'. Even now when I know it's not the lyrics, all I hear is them singing go home Bill!

Zoopet · 06/08/2026 21:04

He's dancing with the chicken's legs
( chick in slacks)
Rod Stewart

DoorOpening · 06/08/2026 21:06

Only you can set me free
Coz I’m guilty,
Guilty as a cocoa bean

BePoisedMoose · 06/08/2026 21:07

The first five times our fitness instructor played Pink Pony Club, I heard it as Pit Pony Club. I had visions of all the retired pit ponies having a lovely time, like the shire horses when they used to have two weeks' holiday from their work and gallop around in a field.

JesseDavisGonnaHangOnInThereNSoul · 06/08/2026 21:09

TheDogsMother · 05/08/2026 22:57

“My love has got no money, he's got his trombolese”

I always thought it was "he's got a strong release"

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!"

PrescriptionOnlyMedicine · 06/08/2026 21:24

When my daughter was little she sang the lyrics to Jai Ho as

Jai Ho … you are the reason that I breathe
Jai Ho … you are the reason that I call you Steve

edit: it has and always will be a trombolese

cuckoolodger · 06/08/2026 21:36

When I was little I thought boy George was singing about a chameleon that kept escaping from his cage. Come on come on come on chameleon. You come and go, you come and go. I even bared my entire school disco dance routine around this premise and was mortally wounded when my top junior teacher burst my bubble .

CeliaCanth · 06/08/2026 21:46

“Hera shera on deposit
mixing up some fruits for you!”

which of course is nothing to do with a she-wolf in the closet…

Catsansan · 06/08/2026 21:47

Starbucks lovers?

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

ruethewhirl · 06/08/2026 21:58

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.

Edited

Thank you, I have never been able to work out those lyrics! 😆

GlensHutchisonsRobertsonsStephek · 06/08/2026 21:58

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 😆

Hahah I was going to post this one!

Notoironing · 06/08/2026 22:01

Whoomph mayonnaise

ruethewhirl · 06/08/2026 22:01

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 😆

Apparently DH heard it as 'a croc in the field' for years...

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.

RobertJohnsonsShoes · 06/08/2026 22:29

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

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!

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!

CrocsNotDocs · Yesterday 07:57

The Boys of Summer

After the poison summer has gone.

Original poster
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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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.