I've just learned if it hadn't been for Cotton Eye Joe..

[StanleyTheCrane]

He'd have been married a long time ago and not buried a long time ago. I thought that CEJ had saved his life, not stolen all of the women.

Also that he came to town like a Mid-Winter storm, not like a movie star.

Has anyone else had any lyric related revelations lately?

God after discovering I have a horrendous fear of holes on another thread tonight , I can't tell you how happy I am to be reading this one !! These are really tickling me and made me remember my son age around three singing and dancing to his favourite tune 'gruffalo soldier'

I'm guessing trichophobia ?

Oh oesophagus by Jeff Beck (it’s obvious) . What does Bob Marley say if it’s not a roof rack over our heads?

That has me fair tickled! 😂

Not a misheard lyric but I had Benny and Bjorn from ABBA the wrong way round for years. And married to the wrong women.

Wondered how Ed Sheeran was able to talk about his friend selling coke in Castle on the Hill...turns out its clothes..though he slates the rest of his friends lives in that song so wouldn't surprise me!

"A roof right over our heads"

Thats the one!

Bruce Hornsby and the Range - that's just the way it is. I always swore blind it was "standing in line, marking time, waiting for the wealthy to die" (it's actually "waiting for the welfare dime").

Made just as much sense my way!

The other one was They Might Be Giants and Birdhouse in your soul... "blue canary in the outlet by the light switch - oo ahh she's over you" (should be "who watches over you").

My parents played a lot of Peter Gabriel when I was younger, and I didn’t know any French, so I totally thought those were the words 😂

I’ve also just discovered that it’s Kate Bush who sings that part 🤯

My post was supposed to quote this one 😂

I've mentioned this before but for years thought that it was
"No dogs or cats are in the classroom "
in Pink Floyds The Wall!

For years DD would sing along to Build me up Buttercup with 'I'll be home, a baby xylophone waiting for you'..
When it should be 'I'll be home, I'll be beside the phone waiting for you'... I still sing her version, much better.

DD was convinced The Weeknd was singing about faeces in the crowd in Devil May Cry…

Guilty as a girl can be. Not guilty as a cocoa bean. Who knew?!

bananarama have gone down in my estimations now I know they aren’t singing about chocolate after all.

I spent many years thinking it was 'guilty as a drunken bee'!!

It's 'I wanna make you beg for it"!

One that got me for ages was Somebody Told Me by The Killers. I was on a road trip holiday with a friend not long after Hot Fuss came out. We had brought CDs to play in the car and that song was driving us mad, 'never thought I'd let a roomaroo in my moonlight'. We listened to it over and over trying to figure out wtf a roomaroo was. I can't actually remember how long afterwards it was when I learned it was 'never thought I'd let a rumour ruin my moonlight' 🤯😄

Well I've only just learned it's not roomaroo

DH was in his forties when he recently discovered that in ABBA's 'Waterloo' they are in fact singing "I was defeated you won the war" and not "how does it feel to be wonderful". I may have laughed quite a lot when he first came out with that

Having said that, I've only recently realised it's "la question c'est voulez-vous" and not "Marcus Johnson voulez-vous" so I'm no better than DH

I also thought it was "my lover's got no money, he's got his stromboli" which I believe is an Italian pastry thing maybe...?

DH has never let me forget that Marc Bolan sings about a Metal Guru, not a Mini Gnu!

Nirvana - A mulatto, hell if I know, I’m a skeedaw, a burrito yeah!

It's actually A mulatto, a mosquito, my libido. Not that it makes any more sense.

Reminds me of listening to Brendan Shine singing the song 'Catch me if you can', with the lines 'I'm off to Lisdoonvarna at the end of the year/ I'm off for a bit of craic, the women and the beer'. For ages, I thought he was off for a bit of crack, the illegal drug, and I was a bit puzzled, especially as the rest of the song is about what a catch he thinks he'd be as a husband!

I thought it was "how did you feel when you won the war?"
Until a minute ago

When I was little I could have sworn I heard Michael jackson singing “but the chair is not my son” … made perfect sense at the time…!

Oh and another vote for “tromboleese” !

I always thought it was "Rythym is a dancer, it's a source of passion".

I was about 6 when it came out.