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!!!

Arianna grande’s song ‘Thank you next’ reminds me of Frank and Alice from friends.

‘Fraaank and Aaalice!
‘Fraaank and Aaalice’

I just actually came across a song I've known since I was a small child- Judie Tzuke's 'Love on the Border' and that's got lots of misheard lyrics for me.

'Love on the border, quick as an order, where the clouds of smoke surround you'
The real lyrics-
'Love on the border, papers in order, where are the guards that stop your entry'
and another lyric-
'All the telephones are broken' which really was 'All the bonds are broken'

“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.”

I thought those were the lyrics until THIS THREAD

@Bobthefishermanswife

I'm gonna start singing that when I hear it now!

I have had so very many embarrassing lyric related incidents over the years... The one that used to make my partner laugh the most was my interpretation of Natasha Beddingfield's song "These words". The chorus is "These words are my own, from my heart flow...." BUT in my version it will forever be "Venus de Milo with no arms though.." Still haven't lived it down, oh the shame!!

Supertrooper by Abba

^I was sick and tired of everything, when I called you last night from Tesco
^
Freed From Desire

My lover's got no money, he's got his trampoline

I thought it was 'Billy Jean, you rock my world ' instead of ' Billy Jean is not my lover'...

Oh the crystal chandeliers light up the paintings on your wall
The marbles "that you eat" are standing safely in the hall

@Itsfineactually the song is Annie are you okay. Not Eddie.

I know. Those were my misheard lyrics - I didn't realize that I was wrong until last year.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=2FtMXL_fTzU

He very clearly sings 'I just need time, I'm a pastry chef'

(1:05)

My daughter used to sing along with Human League 'Don't you want mi babies?' and Meat Loaf 'All dressed up and no place to go', which as a toddler made far more sense than the 'revved' he sings.

For years the Hollies sang in 'He ain't heavy he's my brother' - went on to 'He's wealthy as Mackeson' (rather than 'His welfare is my concern.'

Eurythmics', "There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)". ' I'm groaning; overblown with fleas. instead of 'I'm thrown and overblown with bliss'.

"Mums looking tired", the winds blowing in but "Mum's looking tired", far have l travelled ........tum tum tum te tum....
For years its mother apprieciating lyrics quite endeared me to Paul Mc Cartney.

When I was 14 I was really into Oasis. A couple of days before the album Be Here Now was released Radio 1 played a couple of the new tracks and I of course taped them and played them over and over trying to learn all the lyrics. (And show of to my friends/brother that I’d learned all the words as that type of thing was important at 14).

One of the songs, Magic Pie has the opening line:
‘An extraordinary guy, could never have a normal day’
but the only thing I could hear was :
‘An extra roll of hairy guy, can never have enough to do.’

So I told everyone that was the lyrics and promptly got the piss taken out me a couple of days later when the album sleeve revealed just how wrong I was.

I thought 'Forever in Blue Jeans' was 'Reverend Blue Jeans': presumably a trendy spiritual leader. Also that the line 'Chains, chains, I'm all in chains' in 'My Coo-ca-choo' was 'Jane, Jane, my only Jane!' One of my friends thought that the singer of this song was called 'Alvin Sawdust'. Another friend thought that the line 'You don't have to say you love me; just be close at hand' was 'You don't have to say I'm lovely, just because I am!' I've always preferred her version!

i always sang “I wear goggles...” during Macy Grays’s ‘I Try’

The Ciao Adios song

Ciao Adios, I’m done

I thought it was
Saddle the horse, I’m done

(Friend, honest): The lift goes up where we beeeeelonnnng 😂

The Taio Cruz song dynamite was popular in my freshers week at university. The correct lyric was "hey ho gotta let go" while I spent an awkwardly long time singing "hey ho Galileo"

Another lyric I misheard was Justin Timberlake's "Cry me a River". He sings "You don't have to say, what you did
I already know, I found out from him." BUT I hear "You don't have to say, what you did
I already know, my sugarpuff kid!".

Dance, dance wherever you may be
I am Lord of the Dance Settee.
All the way through primary school

Hot Chocolate l believe in miracles where you from you sexy thing, I thought it was I believe in Malcolm still can't sing miracles when I hear it.

As a small child, I thought that the hero of 'O Susanna' had 'come from Alabama with a bandage on my knee'. Also in the song 'Robin Hood' there is the line 'His bow was always ready', and I heard that as 'ever ready' and had a vague idea that his bow came with an Ever Ready battery (I didn't know too much about bows and arrows!)

My DH likes a song where the lyrics is:

'my white bicycle'

and I thought it said :

'my wife's bisexual'

He said the song is actually called 'my white bicycle'.....

Gibws it away really.

DD last Christmas was her first year of nursery (age 3) and she had her first experience of Christmas carols... a few months ago totally randomly she was watching something on tv about Christmas and she said 'oh I love that song' so I asked her what song, and she replied 'Judy Jolly'. I told her I didn't know that one and asked her to sing it to me...

She sang '... tis the season, Judy jolly...'

I almost wet myself, it was so funny as she was so serious, she didn't believe me it was ''tis the season to be jolly', but obviously in our family it will forever more be 'Judy Jolly' 😂