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Misheard song lyrics that still make you smile years later

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TheAverageJoanne · 05/08/2026 22:39

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

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UhOhRatPoo · Yesterday 15:37

AgentCooperdreamsofTibet · Yesterday 12:27

On a previous thread like this, a poster said that she had misheard Ray Parker Jr singing:

Who ya gonna call?
Those bastards!

This pops into my head randomly and always makes me laugh.

Like others, I thought Abba were asking "how did it feel when you won the war?" for a very long time. Being from Glasgow though I picked up on the Super Trouper lyric immediately but assumed it was wrong for decades - kept trying to work out what the real word was. Surely nobody would write a song about Glasgow?

A few years ago, I was telling my family about the Tatiana song which kept playing on the radio. Lyrics: This is Tatiana (repeat). After many days it turned out it was Little Mix singing just a touch of your love.

I also thought that Pulp's Lipgloss had the line:

You feel like such a fool, for laughing at badgers, and putting up with his friends.

It's bad jokes. Makes much more sense.

Good quality headphones have been a revelation in the last 20 years.

“Surely nobody would write a song about Glasgow”?

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

UhOhRatPoo · Yesterday 15:52

UhOhRatPoo · Yesterday 15:37

“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 😀

AuntieGrizelda · Yesterday 15:54

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'

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PollyannaWhittier · Yesterday 16:42

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 !

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