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?

Not a recent revelation, but for a good 10 years as a child my dad (a huge Glasgow Celtic fan) had me believe that the lyrics to Seasons In The Sun when Westlife released it were 'we had joy, we had fun, we beat Rangers 7 - 1' and I only found out when I got old enough to be left home alone and it came on the radio without him there to sing loudly over the top of it

Black eyes peas - Hey ya!

“Shake it like a Hollywood picture, hey ya!”

“Shake it like a Polaroid picture, hey ya!”

My husband had a good belly laugh when he heard me and I’d been singing like that for good 10 years

Counting crows.

I sore blind that it was '...let me light your chemicals 'cause mama, I'm sure hard to handle now...' but apparently it is...

let me light your candle
'Cause, mama, I'm sure hard to handle now...'

@GraceandMolly that is by the utterly fabulous Outkast

I always thought it was 'what a holy place to mamba'!
Also ' I put my hair up check for nits' 🤣🤣 (- good as hell by lizzo)

Oh piano! (Vienna)

I thought Beyonce was singing 'All the Cigarettes' (Single ladies!)

Then again my Mum thought John Travolta and Olivia Newton John were singing 'You're the Wizzard of Oz...ooh ooh ooh, honey...' (and she'd taken me to see the film!!!!)

@willowstar

outcast - hey ya! 😝

that’s brilliant for this thread, thanks for telling me. I even looked the lyrics up just now before posting, but didn’t register that it’s a different band. So for 10 years I’d been singing wrong and for another 5 after that had been giving credit to other musicians.

Is there still no edit button?

outcast Outkast

The mention of Grease just reminded me that I thought that ONJ was singing "He ran by me, got muscle damp" in Summer Nights and not "Got my suit damp"

I assumed that it was some form of cramp.

My nephew used to sing “I’m honey, honey, honey, honey tonight” to mousse t

and I thought “suicide blonde” was “soup inside a box”

It IS lord of the dance settee!

It was only when I sang along to this at work last year that I was corrected that it is not ‘My love is in the morning, he’s got his trampoline’ I thought the guy in the song had one of those fitness trampolines and worked out every morning I still sing my version…..

For many decades I thought dance classic Ride on Time went,
you're such a, you're such a...
ostentation

but it's really
you're such a, you're such a...
hot sensation

well of course now it seems obvious!

It always sounded like “grim poodle-basher” to me.

I was convinced Pharrell wanted to ride on his Mexican donkey (and not get lucky).

I thought in 'I Can't Help Myself' by The Four Tops they were singing
'Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch, We should at a mansion be'
I only discovered it's 'I'm weaker than a man should be' last year when I realised my version made no sense whatsoever and looked up the real lyrics.

Niche, maybe, but 'in the morning' by The Coral-

My then maybe 7-year old daughter thought the lyric was 'tea and a toast to yesterday's cake first' (yesterday's capers). We both (she's now 24) still sing that incorrect line very loudly every time she comes home

What is she singing?

Rhythm is a dancer it's a source of cancer you can get everywhere 🙈 my friend used to swear down these were the lyrics!

My DS collapsed in giggles the first time he heard Venus by Bananarama, thought they were singing “I’m your penis”.

I thought Mr Brightside was "Cause I missed her bright side " Had never seen the title written down. Just heard it on radio n pubs.

Rhythm is a dancer it's a source of cancer you can get everywhere 🙈 my friend used to swear down these were the lyrics!

But there is a lyrics in the song that goes "I'm serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer"