# 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:** 28
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/541 "2025-10-16T21:45:42Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ > > Actual Lyric: “A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh” > > I hear: “A weiner whack a weiner whack, a weiner whack, a weiner whack” We did that on purpose at my school. _In the bedroom, the mighty bedroom John Bobbitt sleeps tonight In the kitchen, the quiet kitchen Lorena grabs a knife_ _A weenie-whack, a weenie-whack…_ ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/542 "2025-10-17T14:04:27Z")
Starship - We Built this City _My pony plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don’t you remember?_ ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/543 "2025-10-19T22:52:23Z")
“Pit stop, PIT STOP! Who do think you are?” From the song Mr. Big Stuff. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/544 "2025-10-20T03:52:49Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > **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_ I thought for years that “Jojo was a man who thought he was an owner.” Meanwhile, “We Didn’t Start the Fire” has a couple for me: Psycho Belgians in the Congo (two concepts merged into one, and historically appropriate 😉), and AIDS cracked Bernie Goetz (merged concepts and misheard). As I recall, there’s a band called Space Monkey Mafia. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/545 "2025-10-20T06:54:51Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > Meanwhile, “We Didn’t Start the Fire” has a couple for me: Psycho Belgians in the Congo (two concepts merged into one, and historically appropriate 😉), and AIDS cracked Bernie Goetz (merged concepts and misheard). As I recall, there’s a band called Space Monkey Mafia. My mishearing/merged concepts from that song was “Scooter Baker Television,” which I assumed was some kind of pioneering early program à la _The Ernie Kovacs Show_. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/546 "2025-10-20T17:51:31Z")
I am just now finding out that Jojo was a man who thought he was a woman Is not the actual lyric. ---
**Author:** ![Newtosite](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/newtosite/32/8623_2.png) [@Newtosite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newtosite)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/547 "2025-10-21T00:16:23Z")
I bet no one else has this one. In the 1950’s, I heard a TV show title sung as “Whoopee the Bunny.” The words were really, “Wooo…People are Funny.” (an old Art Linkletter show). ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/548 "2025-10-21T00:35:33Z")
i misheard the endlessly repeating lyric in a certain TV show’s opening theme as “Shabonky-ay-aynyer!” Turns out it’s actually “Martin.” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/kF4H5vZ-Km4/hqdefault.jpg "Martin - Seasons 1 & 2 - Intro") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF4H5vZ-Km4) ---
**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:** [October 21, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/549 "2025-10-21T00:46:24Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > I am just now finding out that Jojo was a man who thought he was a woman > Is not the actual lyric. It is, but it isn’t. As in not the _original_ lyric. Which I will **not** repeat here. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/550 "2025-10-21T01:01:59Z")
[Discussion of the relevant stanza from Get Back from this own thread from 2021.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/381) ---
**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:** [October 21, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/551 "2025-10-21T01:19:49Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > It is, but it isn’t. As in not the _original_ lyric. Which I will **not** repeat here. You could spoiler a citation, so that the rest of us know what you’re talking about. > [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Discussion of the relevant stanza from Get Back from this own thread from 2021. That just points back to this thread [emphasis mine]: > I am gobsmacked that the lyrics are **not** “Jo Jo was a man who thought he was a woman, but he was another man.” Nothing to say it’s not what I said it was originally. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/552 "2025-10-21T12:15:19Z")
Maybe it _should_ be it’s own thread because I sure as heck thought the line was Jo Jo was a man who thought he was a woman but he wasn’t one at all. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/553 "2025-10-21T12:35:33Z")
Yep, I thought Jojo was a man who thought he was a woman also. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/554 "2025-10-21T14:39:41Z")
The line in “Space Oddity” is “And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear” which is a reference to the popularization of space travel. But I always thought it was a more literal reference to being launched into space and that it was “And the papers want to know who shot you where.” ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/555 "2025-10-21T21:53:14Z")
Pat Benatar, Out-A-Touch “How long does it have to last like this? With a cold, cruel kiss?'” Actual lyric: “With a Kodachrome kiss?” Which has to do with a camera, I guess. That song is baller. In my defense, I was -2 years old when it was released. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/556 "2025-10-22T13:43:16Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I was -2 years old when it was released. -2? Pre-conception then. No wonder your comprehension was off! ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/557 "2025-10-22T16:08:01Z")
Yup. It was released in '81 and I was born in '83. But I grew up listening to that album. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/558 "2025-10-22T21:30:00Z")
Pre-conception on a Pat Benatar song? You’re throwing off the demographics of this message board, young lady. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/559 "2025-10-23T16:36:09Z")
I Will Survive: My lyrics: “Here I am with that look about my face” Actual lyrics: “Walked in to find here without that look upon your face” ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/560 "2025-10-23T17:56:25Z")
Are you sure? 😁 Actual actual lyrics… “I just walked in to find you here with that sad look upon your face.” One of my favorite songs from the first time I heard it back then. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/6dYWe1c3OyU/maxresdefault.jpg "Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dYWe1c3OyU) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166.md?page=29)