AIBU to ask what is your biggest lyric mishap? (lighthearted)

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So I was watching TV with my OH last night, and the adverts came on. One advert had the song 'Born free' as the backing track.

I enthusiastically sang along to the words as I have always known them... 'Born freeeeeeeee, as free as a monkeeeeeeeee'.

My husband almost wet himself and replayed the ad at least four times to prove that they are categorically NOT the words.

I have literally only just found out that it is 'as free as the wind blows'. I'm quite gutted, at least my version rhymes! And I thought it had something to do with the film!!

So what lyrics have you got wrong, make me feel better!!!

Oh dear, I think I prefer your version though

Dd used to sing ‘we found love in a homeless place’ still tease her about it now.

My daughter sings that one but "as free as a rainbow" instead.
I heard old town road for the first time a few weeks ago and thought he was singing, "I'm gonna take my horse to a motel room" DP thought it was hilarious!

"A friend" used to sing along to that classic Prodigy ding Snap My Picture

Far more polite than the original.

Band aid feed the world. For years I thought it was "thieves go noooo ooo" I'm my mind it was an xmas song and stopping people stealing their xmas presents 🙈
More recently maroon 5 what lovers do. I was convinced the line was "build a shed for you" nope its "been wishing for you"
In my defence ide prefer my lover to build me a shed.

"young girl with eyes like potatoes" was always sung in our car when La Isla Bonita came on.

There's a line in 5ive's 'Let's Dance' that I got spectacularly wrong once. I can't remember the actual lyric, but my misheard version was 'Take a dump, come and swing your balls to the beat'

There's actually a word for this: mondegreen.

Please excuse a quick copy and paste from Wiki:

"American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term in 1954, writing that as a girl she had misheard the lyric "...and laid him on the green" in a Scottish ballad as, "...and Lady Mondegreen"."

Mine is La Osla Bonita too! I used to hear the first line as ‘Last night I dreamt of some dago’. This went on for over 20 years until I eventually said to DH that I didn’t understand why radio stations still played such a racially offensive lyric.

And Meatloafs song ‘Dead Ringer for love’ I’ve always heard the line as ‘rock and rolling through’ rather than the correct ‘rock and roll and brew’. This persisted even after seeing the Bat out of Hell stage show nearly 20 times. It was only when I went to the surtitled singalong performance that the penny finally dropped.

I used to sing The Beautiful South's Don't Marry Her, thinking the lyrics were:
"Don't marry her, but me"
It's not but.

Loving these! Keep them coming...

I've also just remembered my DS used to sing along to Justin Timberlake's 'Can't Stop the Feeling' - opening words, 'I've got this feeling, inside my balls'. He was 6, had no idea why it made us laigh so much! We had to correct him in case he sang it in public...

There's also a book about famous misheard lyrics called: "Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza"

Which, in an example of a misunderstanding of a book title about misheard lyrics, I initially thought was a book about the sitcom "Taxi".

The Oasis song "Whatever" quite clearly goes:

Before we get on the bus
And cause no fuss
Get a grip on yourself
It's all gone squelch

Lady Gaga. I thought was singing about stalking a man called Pappa Rossi ( an Italian priest- in my mind).
Got a huge shock finding she was singing paparazzi

Not even misheard, just culturally misunderstood:

"Some people say Shaft is a bad mother..."

Does he let them stay up late eating sweets?

The 'horny' song by mousse t.

For 20 years I've sang the repetitive bridge part as 'oh my gosh, I'm horny, oh my gosh I'm horny' until my DH heard me sing it recently and pointed out that it's 'all night long, I'm horny, all night long... etc'

Apparently it's hilarious as shows how polite and innocent I am

Does he let them stay up late eating sweets?

Damn right!

My brother used to sing "I have to raise you like a shrew" to Fatboy Slim "Praise You."

Now I'm worrying that "Damn right!" isn't in the lyrics of Shaft.

Could I please swap it for: Shut your mouth?

Thank you

My daughter used to sing on the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me a PATRICK in a pear tree 😂😂😂

I spent an unreasonable length of time thinking that it was 'Praise you like a shoe' vampirethriller.

It did cross my mind that this was a little odd, but I thought it might be a song about foot fetishists. And I didn't like to ask.

For far too many years I heard "step into Christmas, be a Christmas tree" instead of "step into Christmas, the admission's free".

Dd used to sing along to Do You Wanna Build a Snowman "we used to be best bunnies..."

Les Miserables...

Real line: the blood of the martyrs will water the meadows of France

My line: the bloody tomatoes will walk to the meadows and dance.

Bruno Mars - Marry You.

I thought it was "is it the look in your eyes or is it these dancing Jews?" which I thought was pretty dodgy. Turns out it's "this dancing juice"

This will out me completely, but Rage Against The Machine’s Bullet In The Head. Both my friend and I misheard the line “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.” We sang it as “Fuck you, I won’t go to the toilet!” There may have been a few gallons of Merrydown cider involved.

@aintnuthin I've got visions of Patrick from spongebob square pants on top of your xmas tree now