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…
Starship - We Built this City
My pony plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don’t you remember?
“Pit stop, PIT STOP! Who do think you are?” From the song Mr. Big Stuff.
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.
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.
I am just now finding out that Jojo was a man who thought he was a woman
Is not the actual lyric.
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).
i misheard the endlessly repeating lyric in a certain TV show’s opening theme as “Shabonky-ay-aynyer!” Turns out it’s actually “Martin.”
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.
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.
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.
Yep, I thought Jojo was a man who thought he was a woman also.
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.”
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.
-2? Pre-conception then. No wonder your comprehension was off!
Yup. It was released in '81 and I was born in '83. But I grew up listening to that album.
Pre-conception on a Pat Benatar song?
You’re throwing off the demographics of this message board, young lady.
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”
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.
