Favorite misheard song lyrics

What are some lyrics that you misheard? Mostly, I just couldn’t understand what they were singing half the time, but there were songs that I thought they were singing one thing and it was something else (or at least the lyrics sheet said it was something else).

I heard Paul Davis’s '65 Love Affair as “6 foot 5 Lover Man” which led to much hilarity!

I used to think Secret Agent Man was Secret Asian Man. I think that must be fairly common, as my husband thought the same thing. Of course, he wasn’t an adult when it was pointed out he was wrong.

The Capitol Steps group made this song into a parody which was, in fact, “Secret Asian Man”. It was on their 1997 CD Sixteen Scandals.

^Never heard the parody. 8’ll have to check it out. My error was pointed out by DH, probably around 1984.

One step to the left of topic - He also pointed out that it was Wily Coyote, not Willie E. Coyote. In my defense, that’s never said out loud in the show IIRC.

I’m sure I have loads of misheard lyrics but he isn’t here to remind me of them ATM.

You’re looking for a mondegreen. I can’t recall any personal ones, so I’ll use my teacher’s, who once recounted hearing as a little girl that great Bob Dylan song with the line “The ants are my friends, they’re blowing in the wind”. :smiley:

“Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m six feet four”.
btw, loved “the ants are my friends”!

Did you feel like Jesus?
Did you realize
That you were Italian in their eyes?

Steely Dan, “Kid Charlemange”.

It’s neither. It’s Wile E. Coyote. It hasn’t been mentioned in any Roadrunner cartoons, but there are several cartoons in which he tries to outwit Bugs Bunny and speaks. He usually introduces himself as “Wile E. Coyote, Genius!” There’s also a sign by his door.

Bugs: Are you in, Genius? Are you in, capable? In, solent? In, describable? In, bearable?

Too late to edit:

His card.

I know there were a few that I misheard but the one that comes to mind is the old nut from ABC, “When Smokey sings…I fear violence”. Never quite understood why people would get violent when Smokey sang.

Blinded by the light,
wrapped up like a douche,
another runner in the night

Manfred Mann - Blinded By The Light

Huh… what?

A dozen posts, and nobody has yet mentioned the grandaddy of all misheard lyrics sites:

The site name is based on Jimi Hendrix: " 'scuse me, while I kiss the sky".( Get it? Huh? Well,did you?)
Me, my favorite is “Do you like** green enchiladas**, getting caught in the rain” (Pina coladas)

A friend of mine once admitted that he always heard this line from The Police’s classic “Every Breath You Take”

How my poor heart aches
With every step you take

As

I’m a pool-hall ace
With every step you take

When their working day and night
oh girls
they wanna have fun

It’s supposed to be “when the working day is done”

Said it before, will say it again…

Elton John’s Someone Saved My Life Tonight has the following lyric:

“Someone saved my life tonight. sugar bear
You almost had your hooks in me, didn’t you dear?”

I misheard it as

“Someone saved my life tonight. should have they?
You almost had your hooks in me, didn’t you dear?”

I thought “sugar bear” was extremely stupid and I had to be mishearing things until I was corrected of this on this message board.

In my defense, my version is better. :wink:

Memories
Of holding hands and rat bouquets

– “Memories”, Elvis Presley

My personal fave is “I got shoes! They’re made of plywood!” from Grease.

Oh, that’s great. Both cute and hilarious.

This one’s pretty good, too.

Me too!