There aren’t a 100 men on mars (song lyrics)

[AtSea1979]

My 9 year old DD has just corrected me. I’ve been singing Africa all wrong. Apparently it’s not “there’s nothing a 100 men on mars could ever do”. As she said Mum there are no men, or women, on mars so it doesn’t make sense.

What song lyrics have you been singing all wrong until your DC corrected you?

Well it is 'a hundred men or more could ever do' but I like your version better.

The real question is whether you can get the line about rising like a Memphis about the Serengeti out without running out of breath.

Rising like Olympus

My daughter used to sing Taylor Swifts Blank Space 'it will give you breadsticks or leave a nasty scar'. While I first heard the song and then google 'starbucks lovers' as wondered if thia was a new kids term and what it meant. Of course it was 'long list of ex lovers'.

I still think starbucks lovers is could be a millennial term for some type of OH though!

Ps id been singing Mars too.

@Eatalot I did exactly the same re: Starbucks lovers!

“Eddie are you ok?”

It’s Annie...

Thank you for sharing. Cheered me right up!

My 4yo thinks up town funk you up is uptown funky bunks (as in beds)

It's not Mars????
I really didn't know.

I may have an A6 book full of DD1s misheard lyrics which I plan to pull out at family gatherings once she's a teenager...

I had this exact same revelation at Christmas. I had been singing it wrong my entire life, until my husband pointed out that it's not men on mars.

Walked out this morning
Don't believe what I saw
Hundred billion buttocks washed up on the shore

Lennon read a book on Mars ( have picture in my head of John lennon sitting on mars reading a book)
Should be
Lenin read a book on Marx

I thought it was Starbucks lovers too, and “I got a blank space baby, and I’ll write your name” referred to writing your name on the coffee cup in Starbucks.