# 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:** 22
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/421 "2022-09-03T13:57:57Z")
From the Temptations’ “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” Correct: Wherever he laid his hat was his home I heard: Wherever he led us that was his home Appropriate because today is the third of September. mmm ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/422 "2022-09-03T16:19:27Z")
The first few times I’ve heard the song ‘Cat Scratch Fever’ and Ted Nugent sang the lines “_cat scratch fever…_” it sounded to me like “_Catch that T-bird…_”. ---
**Author:** ![Bayarea4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Bayarea4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayarea4)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/423 "2022-11-12T01:58:48Z")
_Paint it Black_ by the Rolling Stones: I heard: “No more will ugly seagulls turn the people blue” Real lyric: “No more will a green sea go turn a deeper blue.” _I’m a Believer_ by the Monkees: I heard: “When I needed sunshine on my brain.” Real lyric: “When I needed sunshine, I got rain.” _Our Lips Are Sealed_ by the Go-Gos: I heard: “Long as you feel” _Light My Fire_ by the Doors: I heard: “No time to wall a window, Meyer.” Actual lyric: “No time to wallow in the mire.” ---
**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:** [November 12, 2022, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/424 "2022-11-12T02:01:50Z")
> [@Bayarea4](#): > > _I’m a Believer_ by the Monkees: > I heard: “When I needed sunshine on my brain.” > Real lyric: “When I needed sunshine, I got rain.” OK, I heard that song in the 1960’s, and now today I now know the actual lyrics. Thanks. I too heard “on my brain” all those decades. ---
**Author:** ![Bayarea4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Bayarea4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayarea4)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/425 "2022-11-12T02:38:35Z")
It’s good to know that I’m not the only one who heard it wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Bayarea4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Bayarea4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayarea4)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/426 "2022-11-12T02:40:49Z")
Here’s a TV theme I misheard. It’s from “The Golden Girls:” I heard: “And the heart attack would say ‘Thank you for being a friend.’” Real lyric: “And the cart attached would say ‘Thank you for being a friend.’” ---
**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:** [November 12, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/427 "2022-11-12T02:56:40Z")
Cart, or card? ---
**Author:** ![Bayarea4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Bayarea4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayarea4)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/428 "2022-11-12T04:07:30Z")
Sorry, it should have read “card.” Thanks for the heads up, Johnny\_L.A. I am duly chastened. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/429 "2022-11-12T18:06:41Z")
> [@Bayarea4](#): > > _Our Lips Are Sealed_ by the Go-Gos: > I heard: “Long as you feel” I could see that. I heard the song a good many times before I found out the name of it was "Our Lips are Sealed’. When they sang it, I always heard it as “_How does it feel?_”. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/430 "2022-11-12T21:09:49Z")
Award tour by A Tribe Called Quest Instead of “Muhammad my man” they’re on tour with Mahna Mahna Man from the Muppets ---
**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 26, 2023, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/431 "2023-01-26T15:47:28Z")
The jokes thread reminded me of this one. When I was a kid, I misheard the lyrics of _American Pie_. Lyric: ‘With a pink carnation and a pickup truck’ Heard: ‘Eating pink crustaceans in a pickup truck’ ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/432 "2023-01-26T16:34:19Z")
…And then, later in the chorus: ( heard ) “Thistle be the daydada dah”. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2023, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/433 "2023-02-22T01:04:18Z")
I think it was just last year some time when I realized the song is “ **West End** Girls”, not “Western Girls”. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/434 "2023-02-22T02:36:21Z")
_Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)_ by Edison Lighthouse Lyric: It keeps growin’ every place she’s been movin’ I hear: Just keeps screwin’ every place she’s been movin’ After 50 years, that’s STILL what I hear. And speaking of heard, misheard, and unheard lyrics, does anyone else hear the difference between the two endings of the Doors _Touch Me_? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/RrDsSPtZOu4/maxresdefault.jpg "The Doors - Touch Me (R-Evolution)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrDsSPtZOu4) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/EZaQyYgAGfQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Touch Me") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZaQyYgAGfQ) ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/435 "2023-02-22T03:51:14Z")
“Have gun will travel” reads the card of a man, a knight without honor in a savage land. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/436 "2023-02-22T19:21:15Z")
Does that mean they were meeting East End Boys? Somehow that doesn’t seem as cool. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2023, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/437 "2023-06-23T14:41:36Z")
Thought of another one from when I was a kid. **Lyrics:** _Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner, but he knew it couldn’t last_ **Misheard:** _Jojo was a man who thought he was a woman, but he he was another man_ ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/438 "2023-11-18T16:16:59Z")
Had my memory jogged when I recently heard the tune ‘Harper Valley PTA’ When I was a kid in the 70s, when the chorus was sung I always heard it as “_the huckleberry PTA_”. Only later did I learn it was Harper Valley and not huckleberry. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/439 "2023-11-18T18:07:01Z")
_Head_ (1968) is on TV. Didn’t hear the song, so I don’t know if it’s in it. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/440 "2023-11-18T20:27:00Z")
Cripple Creek, The Band “…straight down the Mississippi valley to the Gulf of Mexico, Lake Charles Louisiana…” So, like for ages, I thought the lyric was, ‘the late Charles Louisiana…’ It doesn’t make much sense to the lyric, and I’m not American, I just thought whoever Louisiana was named after, had a first name; and it was Charles! Did not discover my error, until I saw a video with subtitles. I scrolled back, and was astounded how long I’ve had it all wrong! Hahah! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166.md?page=23)