I’ve been hearing this song lyric wrong MY ENTIRE LIFE

[AngeloMysterioso]

Sitting in the morning sun
I’ll be sitting when the evening comes
Watching the ships roll in
Then l watch ‘em roll away again.

My whole life I’ve thought that last line was

They don’t want to roll away again.

MIND. BLOWN.

These are great!

DD had a good one at age 3 or so. She argued with me that in Build me up Buttercup the line wasn't 'I'll be beside the phone waiting for you' it was definitely:
'A baby xylophone waiting for you'. We still sing that line whenever it's on the radio.

Jasper Carrot's 'Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard' in Bohemian Rhapsody is another I can't help singing.

And lately I've been hearing the Sweet but Pyscho song with the line 'a posion potato' - I think it's actually 'she's poison but tasty'.

Jamiroquay -Little L

Why does it have to be like this
I can never tell
You make me love you love you baby
With a little Elf

I thought the 3 kings came from a place called orientar

To be fair, Aha’s lyrics to ‘We’re looking for the whales’ are a bit bonkers anyway but the immortal line of gorgeous Morton singing ‘restlessness is in our jeans’ got me all of a fluster as a teenager. The fact that it’s ‘restlessness is in our genes’ still made me giggle.

I can only hear KD Lang sing "Can't stand gravy'

I thought TLC were singing about Uncle Jason's waterfalls for an embarrassingly long time.

Lionel Richie's "All Night Long"

Last night my husband and I were dancing to it and singing along, and realised we'd both always sung "Siesta all night long" when it's actually "Fiesta all night long". Which makes so much more sense!

Although at our age, siesta all night long has an appeal

I can only hear KD Lang sing "Can't stand gravy'

No, no, no. It's obviously God Sent Gravy

I love all these. But am surprised no one has mentioned the most infamous mondegreen of all, Credence Clearwater Revival -
"there's a bathroom on the right", instead of the correct lyrics
"there's a bad moon on the rise".

I always thought Wham's Last Christmas had the line; "to send me from tears". It never made sense, at least I now know why.

I always hear Cherry Pie in Pokerface too.

I thought Madonna was singing about ‘some dago’ in La Isla Bonita not ‘San Pedro’ and wondered for years how she could get away with using such a racist term.

And not a lyric but in the Catholic Mass the priest says ‘ I leave you peace, my peace I give you’ and the way one local priest pronounces it it always sounds to me as if we are being given ‘peas’. It makes me smile every time.

The previous posters comment about the AHa song reminded me of another one they did,I think it was called 'Stay on these roads' (but not 100% sure). It sounds like he sings 'And those of us who are travelling by tractor'. To his day I don't know what he really says.

Coldplay..."lights go out in a candy store"

Is actually "lights go out and I cant be saved".

I've managed to get to the age of 37 without knowing the correct words to We wish You a Merry Christmas
It was only when ds was practicing for his Christmas concert that I realised it's Kin not King.

Blessed I am a few years older than you and that is also brand new information to me!!

My sister throught 10CC's "I'm not in Love" line: Big boys don't cry was "Requesting Quiet" and wouldn't believe it wasn't. It was a laugh.

genius.com/10cc-im-not-in-love-lyrics

I got all the words to Ed Sheeran's, "Perfect" except this one: Barefoot on the cross. It gave me a mini rage. Spoiled the image and the song. Turns out it's his accent. He pronounces grass as "graaahhhhs" which sounds like cross. That's the only word in the song that doesn't sound correct. It's imperfectly pronounced. genius.com/Ed-sheeran-perfect-lyrics

SalemBlackCat4
I love all these. But am surprised no one has mentioned the most infamous mondegreen of all, Credence Clearwater Revival -
"there's a bathroom on the right", instead of the correct lyrics
"there's a bad moon on the rise".

That's what I heard!

rolling stones.."i'll never leave your pizza burning" (no it isnt "i'll never be your beast of burden")...my ds1 thought "eton rifles" was "need more redbulls"....

Snow is fallin’ on a chap who can’t see

And
Later we’ll have some fuckin’ pie and we’ll do some carolling.

Oh yes, and according to my childhood friend Queen, “its a kinda magic” was

One dream, asshole,
One price, one hole

' You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, 4 hungry children and a crop in the field'
As a child I always heard ' 4 hundred children'

@JustHereForThePooStories
Thats just made my night

It is Galway Bay...and NYPD Choir

Thank goodness! I was getting really confused.

Ok, mine is quite offensive, but I always thought in Uptown Funk that he said "put some n*gger in it", and I could never work out how a white boy like Mark Ronson got away with that lyric until one time watching the music video, I saw him pour a drink and realised he was saying "put some liquor in it".

I always thought Little Red Rooster was, "I am the little red rooster, too late to roll away". I didn't know what it meant of course, didn't care. Of course, it's "..too lazy to crow today". I had to have it pointed out to me though.

It took me asking DH what he thought a tromboleese was before I found out it was "strong beliefs"!

I thought it was perhaps tambourines or tumbleweeds.

I do make pumpkin pie as a dessert for Christmas.

Another one here who heard cherry pie for cheer leader.