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?

And I always thought he said "You know the door to my parasol"

In staying alive it was "it's alright, it's ok, if you make love the other way"

Madonna sang "Poppadom peach" of course.

Haha I thought she said "level crossing".

You guys are reminding me of all the shit I sang wrongly for years.

Brilliant!! 😂

I thought it was "a mulatto, and a bible, I'm a skater, how would I know??"

Sorry but I'm.just catching up on this thread. My friend at school thought it said "we dont need no birth control" 😂😂

They keep playing George Ezra Green Green Grass on the radio and when he sings 'Throw a Party, Throw a Party' it sounds like 'Tom Hardy, Tom Hardy' which is an improvement 😀

Previous comment about Madonna's Vogue just reminded me that as a child I had no idea who most of the list of famous people were, so in my head it included such worthies as 'Katherine Hannah', 'Benny James' and 'fellas that were on the moon'.

Visions of Neil Armstrong in spacesuit striking a pose on the dancefloor.

Similiarly, not exactly a mishead lyric but I always wondered about the 'space monkey mafia' in We Didn't Start the Fire.

I thought it was "but the cat is not my son"

Another Bohemian Rhapsody one, they were in fact asking for his life to be spared from this monstrosity and not from a pork sausagey.

I'm good at mishearing Eminem lyrics. In Sing For the Moment I hear the lady telling us to 'Sing with it, gonorrhea' and not 'Sing with me, sing for the year'.

In Without Me (quite possibly the worst Eminem song out there), he is not in fact singing about a popular denture application (na-na-na-na-na-na, Fixodent na-na-na-na...) but actually giving advice to fix our bent antennas.

I thought it was Jell!

Can't remember what the song was but the lyrics were 'eyes without a face' and I used to think they were singing 'how's about a kiss?' I was only small so can't remember more than that!

Oh I wish I was a prawn cracker with flowers in my hair!

I just learned that I've been mishearing yet another song.

Night Fever by The Bee Gees.

Apparently the lyrics are not "I got hair in my mouth. I get higher in Milwaukee." but

I got fire in my mind
I get higher in my walkin'

Chop the goolie island breeze
La isla bonita

WTF lol Tropical the island breeze surely?! How the heckers do you here chop the goolie haha

Yes! Took me years to work that out.

Slight derail here- my grandson told me his nanny was taking him and his parents to Belize for a holiday, bit odd I thought but hey-ho. They actually went to Butlins!

Listening to Peter Gabriel's Don't Give Up, my 15 yo said "well that isn't appropriate".

She'd heard Too many men know my neice. (her neice is 3). He is actually singing about too many men no-one needs.

I always thought it was and the chair is not my son

must be the way he sngs it no way is it a k sound

In Divine Comedy's "I like" he''s not singing "I like your goat, I like your bear", it's "I like you clothed, I like you bare"

it’s only after watching the Sex pistols film tonight that I’ve resized I’ve got a line wrong for about 40 years
i always thought it was ‘ You’ll always find us oh too much’

There's no point in asking
You'll get no reply
Oh just remember I don't decide
I got no reason it's all too much
You'll always find us
Out to lunch

I think my version made more sense!

@LadyFlumpalot Brilliant, I thought I was the only one who heard that. 😂

it absolutely makes no sense but that is exactly what I hear. I only found out a few weeks ago what it really was when I googled it after hearing the song for the 60millionth time on Heart radio and thinking I can’t keep singing (along) “tromboleese”

Pink Floyd- Eclipse ……..And all that is gone
And all that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is a clit by the moon 😳

There's no point in asking
You'll get no reply
Oh just remember I don't decide
I got no reason it's all too much
You'll always find us
Out to lunch

I always heard that as "I just remembered a donkey's thigh."

And I spent years thinking Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex was singing "I am a poseur and I don't care, I like men's navel hair." (Apparently it's "I like to make people stare.")

Just heard Tubthumping by Chumbawamba on the radio (we are driving in Europe so cheesy pop on the radio!) and DH just told me that they’re saying ‘pissing the night away’ in the background. I always thought it was ‘kissing the night away’ but of course that doesn’t make as much sense in a song about drinking….

Just heard Tubthumping by Chumbawamba on the radio (we are driving in Europe so cheesy pop on the radio!) and DH just told me that they’re saying ‘pissing the night away’ in the background. I always thought it was ‘kissing the night away’ but of course that doesn’t make as much sense in a song about drinking….

Now go back a few years and listen to Peter Gabriel's Games without Frontiers. Is he singing "Whistling tunes, we're kissing baboons in the jungle" or "Whistling tunes, we piss in balloons in the jungle"?