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.
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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…”.
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.”
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.
It’s good to know that I’m not the only one who heard it wrong.
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.’”
Cart, or card?
Sorry, it should have read “card.” Thanks for the heads up, Johnny_L.A. I am duly chastened. 
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?”.
Award tour by A Tribe Called Quest
Instead of “Muhammad my man” they’re on tour with Mahna Mahna Man from the Muppets
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’
…And then, later in the chorus: ( heard ) “Thistle be the daydada dah”.
I think it was just last year some time when I realized the song is “West End Girls”, not “Western Girls”.
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?
“Have gun will travel” reads the card of a man, a knight without honor in a savage land.
Does that mean they were meeting East End Boys?
Somehow that doesn’t seem as cool.
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
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.
Head (1968) is on TV. Didn’t hear the song, so I don’t know if it’s in it.
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!