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?

DH has always been terrible with lyrics, can’t remember them but has a good voice and loves singing along. However, I’m a pool hall ace , replaces how my poor heart aches in the police song every breath you take. Our 3 DC had to get to adulthood to realise he had been singing the wrong lyrics. Ditto, in the Desmond decker song it’s not the Israelites but, my ears are alight!

I have just listened to it, wile reading the lyrics, and my ears won’t hear anything other than reverend 😂

DH is wetting himself with laughter as apparently he though I was joking when mentioned some years ago.

Speaking of tromboleeses, please tell me that I wasn't the only one wondering what the hell a roomeroo was and why it'd be in Brandon Flowers' moonlight?

These misheard lyrics actually have a name: "mondegreens".
Apparently comes from "Lady Mondegreen", a misinterpretation of "laid him on the green", from an old folk song.

you can hear strong beliefs if you listen very hard indeed. But trombolese is what you hear first. 🤣

@Dizza25 “cool hard ace” is what I hear!

Just google Peter Kay Misheard Lyrics. Hilarious

Showing my age here but at as kid Kylie Minogue had a song out called Finer feelings, was on the radio a lot.

Innocent me thought she was warbling about turning on the central heating.

Nope! Turns out she was on about turning on the sexual healing. 😳😂

"I'll eat you all, wherever you may be"... I thought Jesus was actually devil or something, going round eating people up, for some reason 🙈

I’ve gone down a rabbit hole here.

Apparently Bob Dillon doesn’t have ants as friends, but instead it is “the answer, my friends”

DH still practically rolling around laughing at me.

I found out last week that “it’s five a.m, Saturday, Sunday night” is in fact, “it’s Friday again, Saturday, Sunday, what”

Also, yes to Reverand blue jeans, trombolise and from this thread I’ve learned it’s “jeux sans frontiers”, not “she’s so popular” googled that one cos I didn’t believe it (still struggling)

A family friend thought BeeGees More Than a Woman was bald-headed woman.

My mum thought Boogie Wonderland was boogie with ya dad.

Mum also thought Freddie was singing "sparing his life for these pork sausages" in Bohemian Rhapsody.

And I have always sang "bits and pieces" instead of Instant Replay.

The song I thought was Dark Days Are Over is actually Dog Days Are Over. Enunciate Florence!

Just leaned that Uptown Funk is not “smoother than a French girl skipping”

My 5 yo DS is obsessed with Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve. I have always sang 'It's a bitter sweet symphony, let's fly!' but he has corrected me and it's actually 'It's a bitter sweet symphony, this life'. Which makes much more sense.

Also thought was a fancy trombone!

So he doesn't have a trampoline??!

Yes! I am in a choir and just realised that Meatloaf actually sings some nights you're carved in ice not 'can't be nice' in I would do anything for love
Awesome thread

An old one here, but DS used to sing Hubble Bubble Toilet Trouble to The Manfred Mann song.

@Alphabet1spaghetti2
I thought I was the only person in the world who thought the devil had a sideboard... For meeeeee, for meeeeee.

My family think I'm slightly losing the plot about it but now I have comrades in this....

Woman in love Barbra Streisand chorus

To get you into my world
And hold you within,
I thought next line ITS A RIOTOUS AFFAIR

Its actually… It's a right I defend

still think my line is better

There’s a whole generation of us who just accepted that trombelese was a real thing that we’d just never heard of. I hadn’t heard the song in years when I saw the attached picture and I still immediately knew what it referred to.

Put me out of my misery please. What are the correct words?

Some boyband's song that has the second line 'I've got the shits on the floor'. I can't unhear it.