Misheard song lyrics that still make you smile years later

[TheAverageJoanne]

I saw this post elsewhere today.

I heard Simon Mayo playing Coming Up by Wings today. Not heard it for years, my dad used to think he was singing Tommy Yogurt

Other gems included ....

Macy Gray - I wear goggles when you are not here

DJ Luck & MC Neat - Ali with the mittens on, Ali with the mittens on (repeat several times)

The Wanted - She can't sing, she can't dance, but who cares, she walks like my nanna

I think it’s “i don’t have to listen to your whimpering talk”.

I’ve not seen that before - love it !

I don't think I can actually think of one.

The Beatles were quite ahead of their time when it came to 'gender identity' and people nonchalantly changing their pronouns.

In Ob-la-di-ob-la-da, verse 3 says:
Molly stays at home and does her pretty face
And in the evening, she still sings it with the band

In verse 4, it says:
Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face
And in the evening, she's a singer with the band

I suppose the 'she' in v4 could be referring back to Molly, but in the light of the previous line and the fact that it's already said still in v3, but is now presenting it as new information, I can only assume that Desmond was jealous of Molly and wanted in on it too!

Hands-down, the best ever mis-heard lyric has to be The Four Seasons and Let's Hang On To What We've Got.

Just after 2 minutes in, Frankie is allegedly singing "Give me a second turning" (which isn't actually a phrase and doesn't actually make sense anyway); but no matter how many times you listen to it, nothing will ever convince me that he isn't singing "Give me a feckin' turnip!"

She will be very, very, very far from the only British person who ever heard it like that!!

I’m so honey honey honey

DD was five. I wasn’t putting her right.

‘Those pirate ships they rabbi’
Redemption Song (it’s rob I).

My DS aged 5 or so :

what’s that coming over the hill, is it a bus stop is it a bus stop?

Anne-Marie Ciao Adios I’m done. Actually sounds like shower the horse I’m done. Listen and you will never be able to unhear it.

Alicia Keys - New Yooork, concrete jungles and green tomatoes

I've never been able to listen to 'Boxerbeat' the way it was intended since someone wrote in to Smash Hits saying 'Why are they doing the butter bean?'

Oh, and I just remembered I always heard the first line of 'Israelites' by Desmond Dekker as 'Get up in the morning eating your breakfast' (it's 'Get up in the morning slaving for bread, sir') and could never work out how you could be already eating your breakfast as you were getting up. Tbf I would have only been about 7 at the time that song was re-released in the 70s, but I totally missed the more famous mondegreen of 'me ears are alight' in the same song...

Come on Annie, ohhohh Come on Annie (Come on Eileen… it was only when they were on Family Guy doing the Lois sketch that I realised 😂)

All that she wants is chips and peas and gravy, she’s going tomorrow. I remember all my friends singing this so clearly I wasn’t alone.

Oh Carolina (ba daa dum…) jump across. I thought she was trying to jump across a stream as brook jumping was THE activity when I was a kid.

From No Scrubs: Looking out the passenger’s side, best friend’s side, tryin’ to hollow out me.

I always thought Pete Wylie was singing it's simple, it's magic ...

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
With four hundred children and a crop in the fields.

Oh, oooooh sweet China man 🎶

Abba - Since I saw you last night in Tesco's.

Parmesan Parmesan - OMC How Bizarre

'Grace, save your money for the children' (Supergrass)

I always heard it as 'Grace, save your ninety-five children'

I thought that was the lyric! Just googled it, realised it's really not- doh!

Dire Straits: “Money for nothing and your chips for free.”
Spoken over the real lyrics when DC were small.

Heard: The woman is wild, she can tan by the pool and jack you off

Actual: The woman is wild, a she-cat tamed by the purr of a Jaguar

Hall and Oates Man-eater

Sade: “your lovely skin”

Omg I always wondered what trombolese was!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

There was a famous Ad for Vitalite spread that used that song and the first line in that was definitely about “wanting some breakfast”.