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?

The last part of Wanna be Starting Something by Michael Jackson totally says “saved by the sound of Microsoft” not Ma-ma-se, ma-ma-sa, ma-ma-ko-ssa (hoo-hoo)

Forgot to add my own mondegreen:

From Boston's 'More Than a Feeling'

Feels like Marianne walking to work 🤔

My DH thought "Napoleon plays the mamba" in We Built This City by Starship

One of my favourites I read on here a few years ago was someone who thought that Nelly the Elephant was 'back to front' and therefore had to say goodbye to the circus.

@mubarak86 i just discussed this with my DH (he wanted to know why I was chuckling to myself). I confidently told him that the right lyric was ‘it’s a source of passion’ ….only it’s not! I had no idea it was actually soul’s companion until
just googled it. 😆

@notacooldad

4 hungry children and a crop in the field

I always thought she was singing "Modern senses purified" until about a month ago I realised it was " Mind and senses purified" makes more sense.

I've only just learnt that lady gaga isn't singing "red wine" and the start of Just Dance.

A friend thought Bananarama said Robert DeNiro was fucking Italians.

My daughter's Meatloaf one was from All revved up and no place to go.

Her version was 'all dressed up with no place to go' - as she was 6 at the time not correcting saved any explaining

I always thought it was 'my incense is purified' and it made sense because it was the 90s and incense sticks were quite popular

@LadyFlumpalot 😂'tromboleese' , so true! I thought that too! This thread has made me smile so much!

My whole youthful clubbing history has forever changed reading this thread. I'm afraid it will always be Trombolese to me. Admittedly strong beliefs does make more sense but doesn't sound as much fun.

@LadyFlumpalot

I thought it was “strong release”. 🙀

Took me a while to figure out Tina Turner was singing 'makes my pulse react and not my balls retract!! For years I'd tried to figure out why a female singer would be singing that

Yes! I was very disappointed when I was singing in the bath and my mum corrected me. School assembly lost its shine after I no longer pictured the disciples sitting on a funky sofa.

I will forever sing this instead of brimful of asha! Amazing 🤣

When I was a child we had a tape of songs by The Seekers which we listened to in the car. My sister thought the lyric ‘the time will come when every man will be as one’ was ‘the time will come when every man will be a swan’!

"the Lord of the Dance Settee.. anyone else?'" yes, yes me!!!

Only this week my mind was blown to discover Joni Mitchell wasn't singing "It'd Be very nice if you you put up a parking lot" but "They burnt down paradise, put up a parking lot"

And it's the lord of the dark settee!!

😂😂😂😂😂😂

🤯🤯🤯

That not only has my lover got no money, he's got his strong beliefs (not tromboleze), and that I am freed from desire, mind and senses purified, rather than mine intenses purified.

For far, far too many years, I thought Frank Sinatra was flying to Dunoon.

Even as a fairly gullible child brought up in the West of Scotland, I thought it was unlikely that a Hollywood star was going to all that effort to go to a slightly shit West of Scotland seaside resort, but that's what my parents told me and I was totally down with it until I was about, ooh, 15.

Ironically, I was in my late 30s before I realised that ABBA did indeed sing that they 'called me last night from Glasgow' in Super Trooper: I think the Dunoon thing had made me too much of a cynic to believe that pop stars did actually sing about the West of Scotland.

I always struggled to understand Karma Police by Radiohead, but the line “he poisons like a fridge” seemed particularly odd. It turns out it’s actually “he buzzes like a fridge”. Yeah, it all makes perfect sense now.

I’ve listened to Gimme, Gimme, Gimme by Abba many times and they are most definitely singing “and it makes me so depressed to see the loo”.