# YOUR misheard lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [August 6, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166 "2015-08-06T16:34:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/401 "2021-12-13T14:36:30Z")
The “thought she was a woman” one. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/402 "2021-12-13T14:38:14Z")
Ah. When I was a kid, I though he was singing ‘thought he was a woman’. (But then, when I was little I thought they were singing ‘Help me get my beans back on the ground’ in Help.) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/403 "2021-12-13T21:51:31Z")
First verse of “Get Back” starts with “Jo Jo was a man who thought he was a loner, but he knew it wouldn’t last.” Second verse starts with “Sweet Loretta Martin\* thought she was a woman, but she was another man.” The “Sweet Loretta Fart, she thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan” is John goofing around before the song starts. It can be heard on the version on the “Let It Be” album. \* The lyrics printed on the “1967-1970” compilation album say “Sweet Loretta Modern”, not “Martin”. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/404 "2021-12-14T13:56:16Z")
Lady, when you’re with me I’m smiling Give me all your love Your hands build me up when I’m sinking Touch me and my troubles **obey** Lady **from that morning** **Starshine** in your eyes ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/405 "2021-12-15T13:22:10Z")
Yesterday I was listening to Rush’s “Fly By Night” album in the car. There’s a song called “Best I Can” that starts with the line _I got a living that’s rough_ But I always hear it as _I gotta live in a trough_ ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2021, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/406 "2021-12-18T14:18:10Z")
Elton John must be the leading purveyor of lyrics people can’t understand. Actual: She’s got electric boots, a mohair suit… I heard: She’s got electric boobs, and more hair too… I don’t actually hear it wrong, but I insist on singing it wrong Actual: Strangers in the night exchanging glances Mine: Strangers in the night exchanging hamsters ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/407 "2021-12-18T15:02:51Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > I don’t actually hear it wrong, but I insist on singing it wrong Actual: Life is a highway, I want to ride it all night long. Mine: Your Hershey highway, I want to ride it all night long. Add me to the chorus of people who listened to “Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap”, and heard “Dirty deeds, Thunderchief”. I thought it was cool that someone wrote a song about the F-105. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/408 "2021-12-18T15:08:48Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Add me to the chorus of people who > listened to “Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap”, > and heard “Dirty deeds, Thunderchief”. …done with sheep… [NSFW](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-4lk2-UA_I) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2021, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/409 "2021-12-18T19:42:52Z")
“Glue” has always been the perfect, uniquitous substitute for “you” when enhancing lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2021, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/410 "2021-12-18T19:48:47Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > I thought it was cool that someone wrote a song about the F-105. I had a model of an F-105 when I was a kid. I thought it was a cool-looking aircraft. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/411 "2022-01-06T17:53:03Z")
These two examples are songs that I heard before I knew what their title was. And hearing them, btw, on muffled, tinny speakers in noisy grocery / department stores, where the lyrics are barely comprehensible and the music can completely curdle into a quiet cacophony. Hence, I thought Van Halen’s “Panama” was “Let it Rock”, (crazy - I know) which couldn’t be a more perfect testament to the impossibility, sometimes, of being able to actually make out anything coming out of those usless, tinny speakers. Yeah - nothing to do with hearing, and everything to do with music simply being drowned out too much by everything else. The other - “Boys of Summer” _after the poison, summer has gone…_ ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/412 "2022-01-06T18:16:58Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > The other - “Boys of Summer” > > _after the poison, summer has gone…_ My daughter’s interpretation of that line is: “Stronger than poison, stronger than gum” ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/413 "2022-01-07T02:07:58Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > I don’t actually hear it wrong, but I insist on singing it wrong You know, that could be a good topic on its own. [So I started one](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/414 "2022-01-07T02:10:58Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > You know, that could be a good topic on its own. [So I started one](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352). I was going to start a ‘YOUR made-up lyrics’ thread, but procrastinated. Now I don’t have to! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/415 "2022-04-30T17:49:01Z")
Singing the Dolphin Through - Manfred Mann **Actual lyrics:** Joseph, the mud gives way to coral… **Misheard lyrics:** Joseph the Mutt gives way to Carol… ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/416 "2022-04-30T18:42:43Z")
This misheard lyric spoof of a Credence Clearwater Revival song just about checked every box of my own misheard takes of the same song. [CCR Have you ever seen the rain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH1cRVitk58) Apologies if this was ever posted years ago upthread. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/417 "2022-06-12T23:29:52Z")
After too much youtube sleuthing I finally found the culprits reponsible for this mondegreen: Band: Take That Song: Back For Good their lyric: “Wancha back, wancha back…” always used to mishear as: “Watch’yer back, watch’yer back…” ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/418 "2022-06-14T18:42:24Z")
In the ABBA song _Waterloo_ i thought they were singing Xanadu. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/419 "2022-08-07T16:53:48Z")
Mr. Mellencamp: _It’s a lonely ol’ night_ _Can I put my arms around you_ I heard as: _It’s a lonely ride_ _When I put my arms around you_ …and would get me thinking - hm, wonder what his partner thinks about that one. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/420 "2022-08-30T01:16:06Z")
Watching an Avengers movie. Chris Pratt is dancing in a swamp, to his music. I recognised the song, but couldn’t think of the name. (Come and Get Your Love - Redbone) There’s a reason for that. I always though they were singing In the nick of love. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166.md?page=22)