Misheard lyrics "hold that gorilla"

[StealthPolarBear]

I was describing a song to DH and this is what he heard me say. Any guesses?

Just let me staple the vicar 😂

Apparently it's just let me state for the record by sister sledge

From the same song:

We're making love with a Femidom!

My mum's friend was babysitting her grandson (8ish yo).

She put abba on for them to dance around to and she was so going dancing queen.
After it finished he looked at her strangely and she assumed it was due to her 'gran dancing' but he couldn't understand why the girl in the song only had seven teeth!
😂😂😂

Collecting your jar of farts, who do you think you are?

My 5yo DD currently obsessed with Mama Mia and her favourite song is 'soggy, soggy doggy' aka Money Money Money!

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who thought The Killers would never let a roomeroo in their moonlight.

in Golden Brown by the Stranglers I thought there was a line that went 'lay me down with my mancheron', which I decided must be a small cigar for reasons I forget. It's actually 'in my mind she runs'.

Also I there's a Madonna song which I thought went 'Last night I dreamt of some dago' and then a bit later 'Young girl with eyes like potatoes'. As a result I spent years thinking Madonna was a terrible xenophobe. She isn't. The lines are really 'Last night I dreamt of San Pedro' and 'Young girl with eyes like the desert'.

I knew it would be that line as soon as I read “Golden Brown”, Saskia!

I always thought that it was “With my mancheros” . Every time I hear it I always intend to look up what mancheros are, but never got around to it!

"What's that coming over the hill - is it a lobster? Is it a lobster?"

That isn't what it says?

Smellslikemiddleagespirit

I only found the real line because I Googled mancheron to find out what they were. (Turns out is it a type of medieval sleeve IRC), and discovered many other people were mishearing it too.

At school, we were convinced that John Revolting and Olive Neutron Bomb were singing, "You're a wobbly dog! Ooooh Ooooh Ooooh!"

DH is an avid radio 1 listener, and was confused when I referred to the ‘turtle song’ released quite recently.

Apparently it’s a song by Charlie Puth (?) but the words are “Throwin' that dirt all on my name” not “Put that turtle on my knee” as I heard .

Maroon 5 Like Lovers Do

Worked in an office that had a radio station on at the level where the volume meant you could only just hear a selection of about 6 songs an hour. I didn't know the songs name or anything but for about a year thought the lyrics were:

"Won't you tell me about Kofi Annan, Kofi Annan, Kofi Annan..."
"Ooooooh life's shit for you...trying to do that stuff you do, ooh"

I thought it was a homage to the great man and how being the UN Secretary General was really hard work...

Aha! A lot of struggles with Maroon 5 lyrics.

The one that still cracks me up is:
'Who you gonna call?
THOSE BASTARDS!'

The talk of Grease reminded me that I thought that Olivia Newton John was singing "He ran by me, got muscle damp." and not He ran by me got my suit damp" For years I wondered what kind of horrible affliction muscle damp was. I figured it was probably some kind of cramping or injury.

Can’t think what it’s called but there’s a pop song out that has a high pitched singing bit in it. I always sing “nicotine, brush your teeth, touch your knee” 😆

He ran by me got my suit damp

I knew what the correct lyrics were, but only just now realised what that line could also mean!

I like it when Ken Bruce plays that classic “slow, silly walking song.”

Think it should be “soul city walking” but I can only hear the silly version now.

I also thought it was tromboleece and had many conversations with friends (pre google/smartphones) about what exactly a tromboleece was. We also came to the conclusion it was a musical instrument.

I need to look up that Killers lyric as, even though I know it's wrong, I also hear a Roomeroo (although my roomeroo is in modern life, not the moonlight). In my mind, a romeroo is one of those robotic vacuum cleaners.

I was recently at a house party where there was karaoke - seeing lyrics on screen was a bit of a revelation for me. I realised that The Killers (again!) are not, in fact, singing "Jealousy, turning sex into a scene" (although I think my version makes more sense)

And the Uptown Funk lyric is not "Girls sexy Hallelujah!" Every day is an education!

DH thought that the Bangles sang about a "Man named Monday" and that Dancing Queen had a dark edge to it - "you can dance; You can die!"

And one from DSis - "People! Woooooaaaah! Let them know it's Christmastime...."

"Who ya gonna call? Those bastards" has utterly cracked me up though. I'll never listen to that in the same way again.

I realised the other day I’ve been singing Don’t Look Back in Anger wrong for over 20 years...

And so Sally can wait, she knows it's too late as we're walking on by
So sad to wait but don't look back in anger I heard you say

Oooops posted too soon

I love REMs “Calling Jamaica” (The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite)
Real lyrics - “Call me when you try to wake her up”

And Love in an Elevator I sang as “Living it up in the free world” for years

Mama Teario Girl.

I genuinely thought Madonna was singing about a Tiny Tears-type doll we didn't have in the UK. In my defence I was 9.

MichonnesBBF

No, that's right! It is da ba dee da ba di

Go and Get Stuffed - Billy Ocean
I was sick and tired of everything
When I called you last night from Tesco - Abba (SuperTrouper)

Is it really "jealousy, turning sex into a scene"? I always thought it was "turning snakes into the sea"