When you realise you’ve had the lyrics to a song wrong your whole life

[Iloveautumncolours]

I’ve just heard on the radio that the lyrics to the Sister Sledge song He’s the Greatest Dancer is ‘Oh, what, Wow, he’s the greatest dancer’

All my life I have heard/thought is was ‘I wonder why he’s the greatest dancer’ and when I listen again, that’s still what I hear! I think it’s etched in my brain cells.

What song have you had wrong in your head for years?

Informer - Snow. So far heard the title as "hey farmer" and "hey father"

So, so many. One of my most recent was finding out the lyrics to Friday I'm in Love don't go "I don't care if Monday's black, Tuesday, Wednesday, hard to take (pronounced tack)". I still sing that.
Also thought Britney was singing "taste of a poisoned paradigm" in Toxic, which I though was remarkably literate of her.
And I thought Five Star we singing "phantoms see the truth" not "My fantasy come true" in Rain or Shine.

I was talking to a friend a few tears ago and said how sad the last line of Running Scared by Roy Orbison was. She pointed out that it was a happy ending : " You turned around and walked away with me!"
For many years I'd thought it was " You turned around and walked away with him!" Because the last word was sung in a prolonged way, I thought Roy was singing "heeeem!" 😄

I thought there was a song called "Smooth Operetta", picturing a really sexy rendition of HMS Pinafore.

Been singing " I love the king" all these years when it is Alive and kicking.