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getting song lyrics wrong

187 replies

fatmomma99 · 12/06/2016 01:05

Had SO many things I was going to do today, but it rained, so I didn't do them. Had an incredible MN day (on here for hours!). I've cried and then laughed and then cried again at threads.

Inspired by the one that made me laugh out loud (the thread about making inadvertent suggestive comments, if any of you want to check it out)

Have any MN-ers got song lyrics wrong?

Mine include
When the moon hits your eye like a big piece of pie....

Tea - a drink with German bread

Jumboli, cod-fish pie...

And my sister's was
Sing a new song, Chick Your Teeth Out.

(can provide answers if any of those leave you guessing). What are yours?

OP posts:
calistamommy · 13/06/2016 20:29

My dd heard the Victoria Wood song recently and instead of " spank me on the bottom with a woman's weekly" she sang " spank me on the bottom with an old mans winkie!"

SymphonyofShadows · 13/06/2016 20:30

I've posted this before: cheer up sleepy cheese.

The one that really grates, that pissed-up tall guys sing over the top of my head when I've heard it played live is 'lays me down with my mancheerons' from Golden Brown

MenopausalMaud · 13/06/2016 20:31

Steps song 5,6,7,8.......
My boot scootin' baby is drivin' me crazy
My obsession from a western - my dance floor date
My daughter used to sing
My boot scootin' baby is drivin' me crazy
My obsession from a western - my dad's called Dave

MrsJayy · 13/06/2016 20:33

Used to think Kenny Rogers had 400 children and a cropped field Hmm

EmmaWoodlouse · 13/06/2016 20:34

Because I'm still in love with you, I want to see your pants again, on this harvest moon.

DS2 used to think the Blue song with the line "One love for the hip hop beat" was "One love for the hippo's feet."

MrsJayy · 13/06/2016 20:35

Peter Kay misheard lyrics is hilarious

IWouldLikeToSeeTheseMangoes · 13/06/2016 20:43

I used to wonder why Bono was singing about characters from Friends in 'It's a Beautiful Day.'

"See the world in green and blue
See Chandler right in front of you"

Sparrowlegs248 · 13/06/2016 20:43

Rihanna - we found Dove in a soapless place.

Sparrowlegs248 · 13/06/2016 20:44

And the well.known song from Madonna....
Poppodom fridge....

TheNaze73 · 13/06/2016 20:46

notamummy I always though Swifty was singing about Starbucks on that song.

I always hear we're making love in a femidom on We Are Family by Sister Sledge

daisychain01 · 13/06/2016 20:48

Sorry for the delayed response.

Yay prize goes to rockchick78 for the right answer to Just let me staple the vicar being from We are Family

We are family,
I got all my sisters with me....

Then it goes

"Just let me state for the record / staple the vicar ..."

Grin
CarlGrimesMissingEye · 13/06/2016 20:51

"Some underworld spy or the wife of a postman"

It's really not right!

FedupofbeingtoldIcantusemyname · 13/06/2016 21:02

Jason Derulo in Want to want me - 'I've got the shits on the floor' instead of 'I've got the sheets on the floor'.

Maroon 5 in Sugar - 'When I'm without you, I'm soaked in wee' instead of 'when I'm without you, I'm something weak' (had to look that one up).

Sia in Cheap Thrills - 'I ain't got gash' instead of 'I ain't got cash' AND 'hit the dumpster/toaster' (can't quite figure out what the bloody hell it's supposed to be).

IWouldLikeToSeeTheseMangoes · 13/06/2016 21:09

Fedup good ones Grin

Reminds me Ronan Keating sang Elton's Your Song on something or other once. Few verses in it literally sounds like -

"I shat on the roof and kicked off the moss.."

PuppyMonkey · 13/06/2016 21:19

The last time we had a misheard lyrics thread there was a corker - can't remember the poster so apologies for nicking:

Israeli men, hallelujah
Israeli men, amen

Grin
Raines100 · 13/06/2016 21:45

Another one here who thought Jason Derulo had "the shits on the floor".

DS & his little friend heard Smooth Criminal for the first time in the car on the way to school and started singing, "Annie, are you wonky? Are you wonk, Annie?"

And DH and I could have sworn Lukas Graham was singing:
"Soon I'll be sixty years old. Will I think the world is colder? Will I have a lot of children who can bore me?" Grin

Mummyme1987 · 13/06/2016 21:48

My dd used to sing "like a gherkin, kissed for the first lime" not sure Madonna would approve.
And then Ricky Martin classic with the "black cats and woolly dogs"

NoPowerInTheVerseCanStopMe · 13/06/2016 21:49

It's a classic one, but I swear the lyric in Manfred Mann's Blinded By The Light is "wrapped up like a douche"

I saw on Taylor Swift's Twitter a while back that even her mum thinks it sounds like Starbucks lovers in Blank Space!

Mummyme1987 · 13/06/2016 21:49

Not sure she knew what voodoo dolls were!

Raines100 · 13/06/2016 21:55

I've always felt sorry for Alexandra Burke because the bad boys have always cum in her eye, poor love

AmberNectarine · 13/06/2016 21:56

green18 I was going to say exactly the same about Reverend blue jeans!

Lulukat · 13/06/2016 21:56

Fatboy Slim - Vauxhall Brother

I know there are loads more I get incorrect but I can't think right now

Raines100 · 13/06/2016 21:57

Oh, and On Republic. "Stop and stare. I think I'm losing all my pubic hair."
Not really misheard, but we've sung it so many times that we've forgotten the original lyrics.

TheyreBreakingThrough · 13/06/2016 21:57

I've misheard loads of lyrics, can't think of any right now, but PP mentioning Sia's Cheap Thrills reminded me of this. These are the lyrics I now sing as I don't know the real ones

Mrsraypurchase · 13/06/2016 22:03

Kooks- I know she knows I am not from the Ruskin (Anglia Ruskin I presumed)