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

“Surely nobody would write a song about Glasgow”?

Wow. This is a lighthearted thread but that is incredibly rude.

Ha, I just reread properly and realised you said you are actually from Glasgow @AgentCooperdreamsofTibet (as am I). I’ll let you off then 😀

Quote - 'Desmond Dekker as 'Get up in the morning eating your breakfast' (it's 'Get up in the morning slaving for bread, sir')'

I always thought it was, 'get up in the morning same thing for breakfast'

I've been waiting for one of these threads to pop up again - I was listening to The Housemartins 'Caravan of Love' the other day and decided to google the lyrics as there are a couple of lines I've never been able to catch.
Apparently there are also some that I've been confidently singing wrong 😆Seems it's 'hand in hand we'll take a caravan to the motherland' not the 'marble land' 😆Which makes a lot more sense, but I still can't hear him saying that !

Big Yellow Taxi Joni Mitchell -

It ain't very nice to piss in the parking lot.

Many years ago I worked with someone who thought “I can see clearly now the rain has gone” was a breakup song and the words were “I can see Deirdre now Lorraine has gone”, it’s been more than twenty years and that version is still what I sing in my head.

I'm guessing Hotel California. Warm smell of colitas rising up through the air. I will of course be singing 'policeman' from now on.

Desmond Dekker: "Me ears are alight".

Kid Creole and the Coconuts: "Ona, Ona, Onomatopoeia".

Manfred Mann's Earth Band: "Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a doosher of a roller in the night". Still can't remember what it actually is without looking it up.

This

The only way I can sing that song!

💯

My friend sang
"You stopped us from killing each other, tah toe tah toe" even though the title of the song should have been a giveaway (The Ballad of Tom Jones)

Ah, is that the line? It's always sounded like 'police gas' to me 😅 which I knew it couldn't be, but I've never got round to looking it up.

I'm a bit prone to emergency-services-related mishearings, though - I always illogically used to hear 'I'm missing you more than the fire will roar' in 'For Whom The Bell Tolls' by the Bee Gees as 'I'm missing you more than the fireman will roar'. All I need now is a doctor or nurse one and I've got the full set. 😆

I always hear that line as 'wrapped up like Medusa' 😄

I always thought it was baked beans for breakfast…..

After 40 years I have today realised that the lyrics to Money's Too Tight To Mention are "did the earth move for you, Nancy?" I actually thought he was singing something in French. Other lyrics to the song were "we're talking about Reaganomics" and "we're talking about Ronnie, Ronnie".

I think after a while of singing your own lyrics that might be nonsense, you start to think they're perfectly normal

Michael Jackson's Billie Jean - the "chad" is not my son (rather than kid).

I didn't know the Waterloo one either.

I always sing warm smell of fajitas rising up through the air

Where is that line? I can’t see it in the lyrics www.simplyred.com/music-and-lyrics/picture-book/moneys-too-tight-to-mention/

genius.com/Simply-red-money-too-tight-to-mention-lyrics

Aha so it is, I think I heard that as something like “in the year two forward dancy“ which makes no sense whatsoever!

I used to think it was 'watches yourself cavort'. Which, honestly, would have been a better lyric than 'gavotte'.

I was singing something similar though i don't even like the song so usually turn the radio over if it comes on on the car. He's obviously got some sort of beef with Ronald Reagan!

Israeli Men! Hallelujah!

Most of the UK did at the time, as I recall! Not someone you want to have their finger anywhere near the nuke button (side note, I mean this figuratively - I do know there isn't a physical button 😄)

Who you gonna call?
Those Bastards!

Beegees

More than a womble
More than a womble to me
More than a womble
More than a womble to me

According to DD when she was little.