Funny Misheard Song Lyrics

[Lizzie]

I was reading the December issue of Real Simple in bed last night and they have an article called "Do You Hear What I Hear" about common Christmas carols that people sing the wrong way. I was cracking up!! Some of them were..

Please bring us some friggin' pudding

Sleep in heavenly peas

Police have my dad (Feliz Navidad)

Olive the other reindeer (we've all sung that song that way now, haven't we?


This reminded me of carols I used to sing wrong when I was a kid..

Later on, we'll PERSPIRE, as we dream by the fire (Winter Wonderland)

Up on the housetop reindeer CLAWS

So, anyone else have funny misheard song lyrics to share? Christmas carols or any theme misheard song! Madonna maybe?

[Gina K. Designs]

BWAHHHHH! These are a stitch!!

[cobrielle]

Hee hee hee!!! Police have my dad! Hee hee hee!!!!

[stampgeek]

Friggin' pudding! LOL

[deipara]

When I was in 8th grade, we were singing Ticket to Ride in choir. A lot of the time it came out as "she's got a chicken to ride."

[lacyquilter]

OMW, these are too funny. If my pre-coffee brain could remember, I'm sure there are many songs I've misheard on the radio over the years. Too many song artists have never learned how to enunciate.

[The MFT Lady]

When my oldest daughter was about four, she would sing the Natalie Merchant song *Kind and Generous* the chorus says, I want to thank you, thank you..., and my daughter would sing it as, I want to vacuum, vacuum!! TOO funny!

[lcmdws]

The old Credence Clearwater classic line "theres a bathroom on the right" (there's a bad moon on the rise) still cracks me up.

The 20somethings I work with twist the lyrics to the 50's & 60's music we are forced to endure 10 mos. a year - gives me a good laugh several times a week but right now, even with one cup of coffee under my belt, I can't remember them...sorry for getting you set up and letting you down.

[Lizzie]

I remember singing the wrong words to Madonna as a kid... "Like a surgeon, cut for the very first time....." This was either because of Weird Al or because my Dad wasn't ready to tell me what a virgin was, so he changed the words for me. ha ha. (He loved Madonna and would play her music all the time...I don't remember my mom loving that.)

[stamp_momma]

Originally Posted by Lizzie

I remember singing the wrong words to Madonna as a kid... "Like a surgeon, cut for the very first time....." This was either because of Weird Al or because my Dad wasn't ready to tell me what a virgin was, so he changed the words for me. ha ha. (He loved Madonna and would play her music all the time...I don't remember my mom loving that.)

This should have come with a spew alert..

[Lizzie]

Originally Posted by stamp_momma

This should have come with a spew alert..

ha ha ha!!!

Or how about.. "Like a sturgeon, caught for the very first time?"

Okay I'm in a weird mood today. he he.

[vz5dzh]

Rock the cat box.

[missiowa81]

My friend's daughter thought the Aretha Franklin song "Chain of Fools" went:

Change change change...
Change of fools...

[Lizzie]

Originally Posted by vz5dzh

Rock the cat box.

Oh yeah, that's a classic misheard song..

we sing it like this..

oh weee don't like it...
rock the cash box, rock the cash box

[CknODaC]

Originally Posted by Lizzie

Up on the housetop reindeer CLAWS

So, anyone else have funny misheard song lyrics to share? Christmas carols or any theme misheard song! Madonna maybe?

LOL, well, I may have always heard it right, but always saw it as PAWS instead of PAUSE.... so to me that was just as bad... changes the whole meaning

[CknODaC]

And about the singers who cannot enunciate... the worst one EVER is Bryan Adams and "Cut's like a knife".... I don't know about anyone else, but it always sounds like a "male body part" 's like a knife....

[Meridith*Anne]

Ha ha! These are too funny! I have one for you...

My friend when she was young was going around the house singing "I want to get dressed for safe sex." Her mom about passed out.

It was that song in the 80's "I want to get dressed for success." Don't know if that was the name of the song or who the artist is..

[zekesmom10]

DH thought Brown Eyed Girl was One Armed Girl. Yeah, go figure.

[Mis.ty]

opps

[Mis.ty]

Originally Posted by Meridith*Anne

Ha ha! These are too funny! I have one for you...

My friend when she was young was going around the house singing "I want to get dressed for safe sex." Her mom about passed out.

It was that song in the 80's "I want to get dressed for success." Don't know if that was the name of the song or who the artist is..

Oh my -- I laughed pretty hard on that one. Every Christmas our whole family has a laugh on this song. It took awhile for us to even figure out the real words.

The Holy and the Ivy

The rising of the sun,
the ROTTING (or RUTTING) of the dear (the running of the deer)

[Dione]

This reminds me of a stand up comedian I watched on Just for Laughs once, talking about travelling with his parents as a kid and the way they would sing songs wrong. I was killing myself laughing

"Don't let your son go down on me"...(Don't let the sun go down on me)

"Whoa oh here she comes, she's a bad reader"...(Maneater of course)

"Lucy's in a fight with Linus"....(Lucy in the sky with diamonds)

"You made the rice, I made the gravy"...(You may be right)


I know I saw a website with misheard song lyrics years ago...can't remember it though

[lcmdws]

here is a link: going there now to read more and laugh...http://www.kissthisguy.com/

[missiowa81]

How about:

Blinded by the light
wrapped up like a douche
another runner in the night

(supposed to be "deuce") I think!

[Dione]

Originally Posted by missiowa81

How about:

Blinded by the light
wrapped up like a douche
another runner in the night

(supposed to be "deuce") I think!

Yeah that's what I hear too LOL

[Dione]

Originally Posted by lcmdws

here is a link: going there now to read more and laugh...http://www.kissthisguy.com/

Yep this is the website Looks alot different than I remember but its been ages since I've been there.

[billsbrowneyedgirl]

Radar Love by Golden Earring..........
I forever thought it was Red Hot Love!

[billsbrowneyedgirl]

Originally Posted by The MFT Lady

When my oldest daughter was about four, she would sing the Natalie Merchant song *Kind and Generous* the chorus says, I want to thank you, thank you..., and my daughter would sing it as, I want to vacuum, vacuum!! TOO funny!

Too Cute!

[billsbrowneyedgirl]

Originally Posted by Lizzie

ha ha ha!!!

Or how about.. "Like a sturgeon, caught for the very first time?"

Okay I'm in a weird mood today. he he.

Oh, that reminded my of my good friends sister, an adult with special needs, she loves Madonna, and singes "like a version"

[CuttersCallous]

Oh my gosh...these are all so funny! Thanks for the laughs! I needed this!

[Clownmom]

And there's always the very patriotic 'Jose, can you see?' from the National Anthem.

[wendykins]

My youngest DS(the one with me in my avatar) is notorious for this----

Very stupid sisters, writing on the wall!!!(very superstitious...)

Give me the Beach Boys(give me the beat boys)

and there is more, Im sure!

[Lizzie]

This thread is absolutely cracking me up.

[Chef Mama]

These are so funny! I heard a Christmas song the other day with a line that said something about people being happy "when you make an offering" but I was sure they said, "When you make a Taco Ring." I was on my way to do a Pampered Chef show!

[Chef Mama]

I remember looking up the lyrics to The Rains in Africa by Toto & finding more sites with info about misheard lyrics than the real thing. Here are some from this website: http://testpattern.msnbc.msn.com/arc...19/368492.aspx

RISES LIKE A ... WHAT?
The Toto song is even more fun. I confessed that, in Toto's "Africa," I always heard a certain lyric wrong. The actual line, according to Toto's own Web site, is "Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti." I always heard it as "Sure as Kilimanjaro rises up like Memphis above the Serengeti" (or even the nonsensical, "rises like a membrus," whatever a "membrus" is...it sounds kinda sexual to me).
Happily, I was not the only confused listener. From your comments:
• "Whoa, all this time I thought it was 'rises like an empress....' Hmmm." --Kristen
• "Oh my God. Kilimanjaro rises 'like Olympus'? I always thought it rose 'like a leopard!' What a disappointment." --Lori
• "I always thought it was 'like a leopress'... isn't that a female leopard, and doesn't that make more sense?" --Rick
• And from a different part of the song, Sue confesses "Growing up my sister and I always sang Toto's "Africa" as 'I left my brains down in Africa,' rather than 'I bless the rains down in Africa.' "

They also talk about one of my dad's favorite song to mishear: "Reverend Blue Jeans" (really it's Forever in Blue Jeans)

These make me laugh! And I totally remember having no clue what the words were in Blinded by the Light, but again my dad had his own version of it which was really dorky. "Blinded by the light, blinded by the light, lordy mercy, I'm blinded by the light." with movements to accompany his goofy screaming type singing.

[waterchild12]

I've been cracking up reading this thread! When I was very, very young, I used to think the words in Silent Night were:

Sleep in heaven, Lee Peace.

[MadelinesMom03]

My daughter LOVES the Canadian Anthem, and sings it all the time...BUT... when it says "Home and native land" She sings "our home and piece of land"
lol cracks me up everytime.

[lcmdws]

I always thought the J Geils song was "wrapped up in a douche in the middle of the night"...like who wants to do that then....

[Chef Mama]

Originally Posted by MadelinesMom03

My daughter LOVES the Canadian Anthem, and sings it all the time...BUT... when it says "Home and native land" She sings "our home and piece of land"
lol cracks me up everytime.

That's so cute! When I was little at one point we lived near Atlanta, Georgia. The baseball team was the Atlanta Braves. At the end of the US National Anthem, the words are "the home of the brave," but I've been told I used to sing, "the home of the Braves." Mom said they even sang it like that sometimes at the stadium during games. No wonder I was confused! LOL!

[PH in VA]

A former co-worker thought that the Four Tops song "Bernadette" was about a girl who had been "burned to death."

[lcmdws]

Ouch -