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?

It's not tromboleese? 😲 I have no idea what I ever thought a tromboleese was but that is what I always sang.

I've always made up words if I don't understand the lyrics (though typically I can't remember many of them now)

Yes to Lord of the Dance Settee. And also Zinger Zanger instead of Sing Hosanna.

Ava Max's little bicycle was really a little bit psycho. Makes more sense now 😆

I only recently found out that Katy Perry wasn’t singing “Don’t be afraid to catch fish.” Apparently it’s “feels” she wants us to be unafraid of catching.

I need to google the proper lyrics cos for years I've wondered what that long haired mush was yakkin on about

Apparently the Kaiser Chiefs were singing about predicting a riot rather than having Tourette's. Weird.

This gave me a proper belly laugh.

This could work though. Strong release is a good option.

😆
I always thought the “Wombles of Wimbledon common are we” meant that the wombles were common, as in, aren’t we common! Was many years before I realised what the song meant!

I also thought Elvis was singing about an emotion cup, but apparently he was all shook up!

This reminds me of the Becky Hill/MK song from a couple of years ago ‘Back and Forth’ REALLY sounds like “All, all we, all All, all, always having salad All, all we, all All, all, always having salad”
The actual lyrics are nothing like that at all but we just call it the salad song now.

handstand where ever you may be, for I am the lord of the dance said he- took me any years to realise it was "dance, dance"😂

When I was younger I thought Alice Cooper sang “your lips are feminist poison”! Only realised a couple of years ago it was venomous…🙄

Being a Surrey girl, I always thought Will Young was singing, ‘And it feels like Chertsey’

As a kid I used to sing along to the Three Degrees’ hit, My Simple Heart as Bicycle Pump!

Molly Malone, wheeled her wheel barrow down streets bow and arrow - I sang that in front of the school

I used to think “freed from desire” went…..

my love has got no money, he’s got a trampoline

This one definitely sounds like fish. It came on the radio the other day. It doesnt even sound like she is trying to say feels.

Is she saying feelsh 😲???

*notacooldad

4 hungry children and a crop in the field
I know! I was joking.
My uncle used to change lyrics when I was a kid such as this one and "you picked picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel!!"

We had use of a really old record player when me and DSis were in our teens - Video Killed the Radio Star sounded like “Biddie O’Kille, the radio star”. Amazing what we could hear when we replaced the worn out needle.

And Peter Gabriel’s Games Without Frontiers the lyrics at the beginning sounded like “she’s so popular” instead of “Jeux sans frontières”. I still sing that cos it annoys the teens

I was 43 by the time I discovered that it was
"men or more could ever do"

not
"men on mars could ever do"
in the Toto Africa song!!!! not quite sure why on earth I thought there were Martians in Africa

Meeee! I used to imagine Jesus bouncing on a big green one.

Along with Hose Anna (as in 'sing hosanna'), who was a hosepipe wielding cowgirl in my 5 year old mind...

It's definitely that well known musical instrument the trombolise!!

I thought it was “she’s so popular”! I’ve learned something new…

😂😂😂 love this!!

My friend at school insisted Neil Diamond was singing Reverend Nugent instead of Forever in Blue Jeans 🤣

What are the right lyrics to it??(asking for a friend)

I knew someone who convinced it was “save the whales” and I can’t hear anything else now!

I also went to school with someone who thought that the lead singer “called you last night from Tesco’s” at the beginning of Super Trooper.