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10 of the Funniest Misheard Song Lyrics
We have all done it, misheard the words of a song – sang along (sometimes for years), in blissful ignorance of the error, until the fateful day that someone overhears your invented nonsense lyrics and takes great pleasure in ridiculing you (sometimes for years).
You are not alone! – It may make you feel better to have a laugh at what other people have misheard – read on……….
I wonder if you can remember the days of vinyl records, open the cardboard sleeve out and there, inside, were the song lyrics to allow you to happily sing along to your favourite albums.
Maybe you are lucky enough to be too young to remember vinyl, but can remember the more recent days of CD’s – again, often the artist would include the printed lyrics on the paper insert.
The modern way to purchase music today is on-line, albums are downloaded directly onto your computer – without lyrics!
There are many lyric websites, but many are unreliable and incorrect.
The National Year of Reading, a group created to celebrate reading, recently surveyed 4000 members of the British public, aged between 18 and 65. The results showed that 62 per cent, claimed not to know the words to their favourite tunes because the correct lyrics were inaccessible online.
Add that to the fact that lead singers are often not the best at pronunciation, It is no wonder that we end up singing nonsense and embarrassing ourselves.
1 ) GLEN CAMPBELL- RHINESTONE COWBOY
REAL LINE: “Like a rhinestone cowboy”
MISHEARD AS: “Like a nine stone cowboy”
2 ) RAY PARKER JUNIOR – GHOSTBUSTERS
REAL LINE: “Who you gonna call? Ghost busters
MISHEARD AS: “Who you gonna call? Those ba*****ds”
(The guy who misheard this, actually telephoned his radio station to complain about obscene broadcasting)
3) STARSHIP – WE BUILT THIS CITY
REAL LINE: “We built this city on rock and roll”
MISHEARD AS:” We built this city on the wrong damn road”
4) MADONNA – LIKE A VIRGIN
REAL LINE: ”Like a virgin, touched for the very first time”
MISHEARD AS: “Like a virgin, touched for the thirty first time”
5) BRYAN ADAMS – SUMMER OF 69
REAL LINE:”I got my first real six string”
MISHEARD AS: “I got my first real sex dream”
6) NICKELBACK – HOW YOU REMIND ME
REAL LINE: “Cos livin’ with me must have damn near killed you”
MISHEARD AS: “Cos little women must have damn near killed you”
7) BANDAID – DO THEY KNOW IT’E CHRISTMAS
REAL LINE: “The only gift they’ll get this year is life”
MISHEARD AS: “The only gift they’ll get this year is flies”
ALANIS MORISETTE – YOU OUGTA KNOW
REAL LINE: “Of the cross I’d bear that you gave to me”
MISHEARD / MISINTERPRETTED AS: “Of the cross eyed bear that you gave to me”
9) ROBERT PALMER – ADDICTED TO LOVE
REAL LINE: “Might as well face it you’re addicted to love”
MISHEARD AS: “Might as well face it you’re a d**k with a glove”
10) SANTANA – SMOOTH
REAL LINE: “Man it’s a hot one, like seven inches from the midday sun”
MISHEARD AS: “Man it’s a hot one, like seven midgets in the midday sun”
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Hahahaaha!
This REALLY Made Me Laugh !!
Yes, these are funny. A very easy song to get wrong is scissor sisters, ‘I don’t feel like dancing.’
Haha! I love it. This is a fun article. I have to tell you that when my daughter was about 5 and we used to go to church a lot, there was a song we sang at church all the time. and the lyrics went “He sought me and bought me with his redeeming blood.” My daughter was singing it loudly for everyone to hear one day and she sang it like this, “He socked me and bopped me with his redeeming blood.” we laughed so hard about that.
Hahahaha!! Good one. I like this!
This is to funny. Great piece.
LOL! This is a great article, really funny. Leanne
Ha ha – this made me laugh out loud! I loved the cross eyed bear and the d**k with a glove. For years my neighbour sang along to Madonna’s “dress you up”:
Real line – Gonna dress you up in my love all over your body…..
Misheard version – Gonna dress you up in nylon…..
Makes more sense I suppose! Still makes me chuckle… he he
LOL, I love it . My favorite was number 8.
LMAO, my favourite one is that I’m a d##k for love!!!
Hilarious !! I loved Rhinestone Cowboy when I was a cowboy !! Tho I probably had no idea what he was singing about ….
LMAO! I have to admit to number 5. I always thought that whenever I heard that song, tee-hee! It’s funny how people can misinterpret what they hear.
These are really funny!
OMG This is sooo funny, i can’t belive it was my Mum who wrote this!! =] ;] x]
This is great! Thanks for sharing!
I was a singer for many years. When I was a kid, at Christmastime I used to love to show off to everybody with all the Christmas carols and my dad caught me once when I was six singing Winter Wonderland:
Real line – Later on we’ll conspire, as we dream, by the fire.
Misheard version – Later on, we’ll perspire, as we dream, by the fire.
It still makes sense but it provides slightly different imagery… lol!
LOL + LOL +… Very funny! (The wrong lines are singing in my head now… so when I suddenly start laughing, people think I’m a bit… well… ahum…)
LOL .. this was great!
This is very funny! LOL!And these are true… Thank you … It was a good laugh!
Another good one s . I thought for years that in Purple Haze instead of singing “Scuse me while I kiss the sky” Hendrix was singing “scuse me while I kiss this guy.”!
Sooo funny. On Creedence Clearwater song I used to sing wrong
Actual line – There’s a bad moon on the rise
my line – There’s the bathroom on the right
Great fun article!
Let me add :
Kenny Rogers – Lucille
4 hungry children and a crop in the field.
Misheard:
400 children and a crap in the field.
As a kid I always thought the lines “We built this city on rock and roll”, was “we built this city on rotten rolls” never could understand it.
You didn’t cover the police song with the line “So Lonely” being mistaken for Sue Lawley
With regards to comment number 3. My nephew was very fond of singing
Victory in Jesus/ my Savior forever/ He bought me and SHOT me!
OMG I literally laughed out loud, with my kids looking at me like I was crazy. Thanks for the laugh, great work!
I’m laughing too and my kids also think I’ve lost it! Great article idea. You could definitely write more and more of these. My son always used to sing the Rolling Stones Satisfaction as “I can’t heck no” instead of “I can’t get no”. He totally thought he was right!
Haha nice one!
Hilarious! Well done.
This is really funny.
Really good article – funny stuff!
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
But you never mentioned the classic ones, like Jimi Hendrix “‘Scuse me, while I kiss this guy!”
That was a one of!
I am sure the lyrics ook is wrong on #8, I mean it’s Canada
Good One!!
Great one! LOL!
Good list. Some of these I have never heard of. I am surprised that Creedance Clearwater Revivial was not on this list.
Thier song Bad Moon always sounded like this to me:
Real line: “There’s a bad moon on the rise.”
Misheard line: “There’s a bathroom on the right.”
This is so funny,i loved it.
I can not remember the name of the song, or who performed it, but in one of the lyrics it goes, “Give me the beat boy(s)to free my soul, I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away. For years I thought that it was a rude song because “I” heard “Give me the beat boys to free my soul, I want to get lost in your “Rotten Hole” and drift away. It was from the mid-seventies, I think by the Doobie Brothers, or Three Dog Night or something. But listen to that part and see if it doesn’t sound like “Rotten Hole” to you. Try finding it on LIMEWIRE
Good piece, very funny. Madonna had no business singing a song about a virgin.
Loved it this, very funny!
Haha, this is great ! My favourite is number 8, although I never heard any of these songs, except Ghost Busters, but I knew what it was.
LOL! WOW SOME OF THESE I REALLY THOUGHT THAT THE MISHEARD LYRICS, WERE THE REAL LYRICS… GREAT STUFF.:)
OK, how bout… from the movie Grease…
real line “your the one that I want…”
we sang ” you the wizard of oz…”
How embarassing! LOL
when i was a kid, i thought jimmy buffett’s margaritaville said “some people claim that there’s a woman to blame, but i know it’s my own grandpa,” instead of “it’s my own damn fault.”
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bad Moon Rising
Real: “There’s a bad moon the rise”
What I thought when I was 8: “There’s a bathroom on the right”
Wizard of Oz
Original Lyrics:
REAL LINE:”We represent the Lollipop Guild”
MISHEARD AS: “We represent the lollipop kids”
Man at work
REAL LINE:”Do you come from a land down under?”
What I heard:”Do you come from London alot?”
Hot chocolate: I believe in miracles! Where you from, you sexy thing?
Misheard version: I believe in America! Where you from, you saxaphone?
Funny….
Natalie Imbruglia on the song Torn
Real Line: “I´m all out of faith”
Misheard as: “I´m a leatherface”
Lol
I’ve got one. Bruce Springsteen’s “Tenth Avenue Freezeout” I always heard as “tell the devil he can freeze out”. :}
Lmfao! my worst one i ever sung, i was about 6 (im 16 now) was to cher’s song Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves.
Real Line = “They call us Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves”
Misheard Line = “They call us Gypsys and Chimpanzees”
I heard a few good ones too:
Penny Lane by the Beatles
“Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes”
Heard “and Elaine.. is in my ears and in my eyes”
Beast of Burden by the Rolling Stones
“I’ll never be your Beast of Burden”
Heard “I’ll never be your Big Suburban”
I figured it was suiting when the next line was, “I’ve walked for miles and my feet are hurting”
18 and Life by Skid Row
“18 and life, you got it”
Heard “18 and life, good golly”
Dirty Deeds by AC/DC
“Dirty deeds done dirt cheap”
Heard “Dirty deeds, Thunderchief”