Just head this one last week. Yes, this is what I thought they were singing.
[sub]* actually, it’s “pajamas”[/sub]
Back in the 70’s…
“I’m Sally in a way”
actually it was…
“I’m sailing away”
A friend in college thought that the Notorious B.I.G.'s “Hypnotize” went:
“Biggie, Biggie, Biggie, can’t you see?
Sometimes your words just hypnotize me.
We just love your fleshy waste
That’s why the others are broke and you’re so paid.”
(Actually it’s "We just love your flashy ways)
In Sublime’s “Boss DJ,” my friend was convinced she heard:
“But I won’t walk up upon the stage like I was John Denver.
The Boss DJ, he ain’t nothin but a man.”
(Of course it’s “I won’t walk up upon the sea like it was dry land,” which rhymes with “man,” and would make sense to anyone with a normal brain capacity…)
No way, for real? Even if it does make more sense, I still maintain that it’s “She’s so popular.” Even if Peter Gabriel came up to me and told me it was wrong, I’d still maintain that it’s “she’s so popular.”
My best friend in high school had a tag-along cousin who irritated the hell out of us. One of her best tricks was screwing up song lyrics. I can’t remember them all, but I do recall that when Michael Bolton covered “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” she thought he was singing “Sittin’ on Top of Pompei”. And kd lang’s “Constant Craving”, which I still love, was reduced to “Toss the Gravy”. And I’ll be damned if that’s not what it sounds like if that’s what you’re listening for.
I always hear “she’s so popular” as “she’s so funky, yeah”.
I’m not sure I can wrap my head around “jeux sans frontieres” - although it certainly makes sense in the song…
**Elton John’s Tiny Dancer **
“Hold me closer Tony Danza”
A friend of mine never misheard it, but pointed out how similar it sounds and now I can’t hear it any other way.
What?
From The Clash’s “Should I Stay Or Should I Go” When the band is repeating the lead’s lyrics, but in Spanish, my sister swore they kept saying “peanut butter sucker” over and over. It’s easy to hear that if you try.
My mother always interpreted Carole King’s “Stuff that Dreams are Made Of” as “Stuff that Green Tomato”. It really does sound like that, too! I get a hopeless case of the giggles every time I hear it.
When I was a kid I heard it the same way, except I heard:
“And a COP in the field.”
Which made some sort of crazy sense to me since the poor guy had 400 children and all. I just assumed they were running rampant.
“I’m walking in Memphis
I was walking with my feet ten feet off a beetle.” – Mark Cohn
Next line: “Caught the headlice on the highway…”
I liked the “Blinded by the Light” skit from the show The Vacant Lot.
I always thought the Smashing Pumpkins song “Stand Inside Your Love” was saying
Up yourself, and beautiful
Which struck me as a funny sort of thing to say in a really romantic sounding song. I just assumed whoever he was singing about was pretty, but a real cow, and that he was really shallow.
Until I found out it was actually
A pure soul, and beautiful
Which made a lot more sense.
I wasted my 100th post on that?!
:smack:
I’ve posted this mis-hearing from my daughter a few times, but it still cracks me up and she hates when I post it-- another plus.
We were watching The Wonder Years. My daughter starts singing along with Joe Cocker’s version of With A Little Help From My Friends which goes:
What would you do if sang out of tune . . .
My daughter sings:
Watch what you do with that stank attitude!
Maybe she thought Joe was her dad trying to get her to wash dishes.
Is that what they’re saying?!? I’ve wondered for years. The closest I could come was “since she put me down I’ve been out doing in my hand”…nah. Couldn’t be that.
Mosta mine’r from the late 70’s and early '80s. I was inhaling a lot of solvents back then 
Green peas and grated cheese
(Sweet dreams are made of these)
I’m a pool hall ace, with heavy necks to break
(How my poor heart aches, with every breath you take)
Reverend Blue Jeans
(Forever in blue jeans)
Big old Jed had a Rhino, don’t carry his tooth on a chain
(Big old jet airliner, don’t carry me too far away)
Bees came upon me, and it stings in me
(Peace came upon me, and it breaths in me–The Hollies)
…And the X-Mas classic that puzzled my addled wittle brwain all though childhood:
Join the hatred, you’ll fight Carol ("Who’s Carol, Mom? An’ why do they all want to fight her?)
(Join the ancient yule tide carol)
One of the funniest I ever heard someone else mishearing is:
My anus is the centerhole
(My angel is a centerfold)
Actual lyric:
“Sundown, ya better beware,”
Lyric I heard:
“San Bernardi-i-i-no,”
I used to hear this one as “Just like a one-winged bird.”
But it makes sense, see, because a one-winged bird would be flying in circles… well, insofar as it could fly… and… um…
The Doors, LA Woman: “cops in cars, the topless bars”, cheerfully misheard as “cops in cars, the tapas bars”. Oh, and they`re called mondegreens, as in “They killed the Earl of Moray, and Lady Mondegreen.” {laid him on the green.} Some Scottish folk song, apparently.