Wow, I didn’t know that song was around in 1968. I incorrectly assumed it was an early 70s tune.
When I was a child I heard Beatles’ “Lady Madonna” as “Knee Deep in Donuts”
It was released in December, 1967.
But I was in error. I guess it’s because The Monkees was on TV, and I conflated it with Pleasant Valley Sunday.
In the song Happy by Pharrell, for years I thought the line was “Hop along” instead of “Clap along.”
In the song “Lookin’ Out My Back Door” by Creedence Clearwater Revival, I heard:
“Look at all the happy preachers dancin’ all alone”
(Real lyric: “Look at all the happy creatures dancin’ on the lawn”)
The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
Lyrics: ‘Andy Wo-Lo said hello, he said, “Hi, what’s new?” and Wo
Heard: ‘Andy Waldo said hello, he said, "Hi, what’s doin’, bro?’
And:
Lyric: ‘Since you’ve been gone, she’s been seein’ that Amos boy, Seth’
Heard: ‘Since you’ve been gone, she’s been seein’ that Amos boy sin"
Hall & Oats. Rich Girl
I hear
You’re a rich girl, and you’ve gone too far
You can rely on the old man’s money
It’s a bitch, girl, but it’s gone too far
That can’t be correct for 1977. Radio wouldn’t play a song with that word. The band was using rich/bitch to get around censors.
Basically this is about a rich bitch girl. But they couldn’t say that in 1977.
Maybe radio stations where you live wouldn’t have played a song with that word - but I absolutely heard in in NYC on the radio in 1977. In fact there was one part where the lyrics are
You’re a rich girl (Rich girl)
A rich girl
Oh, you’re a rich bitch girl, yeah (Rich girl)
Say money but it won’t get you too far
Won’t get you too far
I guess I didn’t mis hear it then. For years I’d snigger thinking it couldn’t be what it sounded like.
Same thing with the douche in the night song. 
Manfred Mann sang that? OMG
Elton John’s Bitch is Back came out the year before Rich Girl and that played all over all the time.
I was a few years off. I forget Radio eased off censorship in the early to mid 70’s.
That changes how I hear those songs because there may be a adult word in there.
“All around the cathedral the snakes and opossums
Look down as she sells her wares…”
–from “Feed the Birds” in Mary Poppins
Turns out the last three words of the first line are “…saints and apostles.”
Could’ve fooled me.
Reminds me of this classic mondegreen from Peter Pan…
What are the actual lyrics?
It’s this verse, the third and fourth lines.
Think of the happiest things
It’s the same as having wings
Take the path that moonbeams make
If the moon is still awake
You’ll see him wink his eye
You can fly! You can fly! You can fly!
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=you+can+fly+lyrics+peter+pan
I was listening to Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” the other day… I don’t know what the first line is, but I can’t help but hear it as “Old pirate’s just a rabbi”.
(OK, I just looked it up. It’s “Old pirates, yes they rob I”)
In the Smiths, “How Soon is Now?”, I know that Morrissey is singing “I’m the son and heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar” but I still sing it as my original mis-heard lyric, “I’m the sun and earth of a shyness…etc”. I always felt (as an introverted/shy person myself) there is a self-centeredness to shyness and that made more sense for me, especially since I’m not the son of anything.
Yes, in the song ‘I’ means ‘me’. Karl Zéro recorded a song called ‘Yes, I’ on his HiFi Calypso album, which has covers of Calypso songs. Apparently ‘Yes, I’ is a greeting; but I’m not sure it’s not also simply ‘Yes, indeed’.
Yeah, I’ve noticed in a lot of Bob Marley (and Peter Tosh) songs they use “I” for “me”. I always just assumed it was a Jamaican thing.
I was today years old when I found out Chris Brown does not sing, “Anita can run it, run it” Even stranger, it isn’t the line “Girl, indeed, I can run it, run it” that sound like “Anita” to me, it’s the previous line “Let me see if you can run it, run it.”
Even now that I know what he says, it still sounds like some chick named Anita can do the thing on the dance floor.