Lyrics in songs you've got wrong all these years!

My sister used to sing lettuce tomato instead of message to Martha ?

For a good while I thought the line in Substitute by The Who was
Substitute my coke virgin
Not:
Substitute my coke for gin

ShazzaKanazza

I only realised this last Christmas that in the song We wish you a merry Christmas that it’s glad tidings we bring you and your Kin and not King as I’ve always sang.

Well I've learnt something today - I've always sung King (or The Kinks when I was a teenager!)

Freddy again. I always thought Beelzebub had a devil for a sideboard - Weeeeee! Didn't make much sense but then very little in that song did to meeeeee!

As for the advert I couldn't understand why a finger of fudge was full of peppery goodness. I only recently found out it was Cadbury goodness.

Rod Stewart
Maggie May
"All you do is wreck my bed"

All you do is wet my bed

For years I always thought Annie Lennox was singing "overblown with fleas" in the song There Must Be Angel

If you wanna taste kisses in my nightie.... jump, jump for my love!

There's always 'Gladly, my cross-eyed bear'. Who was Gladly?

January - you make me sad cup of tea! Instead of 'You make me sad - come and see

I also thought it was Mersey doats and dozy doates (whatever that could mean).

A sort of aside - can't make out the words to the Kayak advert apart from 'beautiful too' at the end.
What is the man doing up his living room with blue samples on the walls saying in the equity release ad?

A song by Hot Chocolate - “I believe in miracles” I always thought they were singing “I believe in milko”!

In ´Groovin’ by The Young Rascals, I always heard ‘That would be ecstasy, you and me and Lesley.’ Instead of ´endlessly’. Well, it was the 60s!

From Lucy in the sky with diamonds I heard ‘ the girl with colitis goes by’ instead of the girl with kaleidoscope eyes!

Not me, but my then five year old daughter singing "oh bite me, bite me" instead of "Oh baby, baby"
Baby one more time - Britney Spears

My aunt when she was a small child used to say "now i lay me down undressed" for the line "now i lay me down and rest" in a well known prayer.

Me? The same! For years, as a child, I always thought Good King Wens Last looked out.! How daft is that?!!!
He must have got very fad up, Looking!! ?

I cringe at the memory, but for ages I couldn’t work out why Madonna sang to her “Spanish Motorbike”. Lullaby makes a lot more sense, I suppose.

My husband sang "she wore an Itsy bitsy sub santini," as a child and still sings it that way!

In the time warp instead of pelvic thrust, I thought it was velvet glove

susieken … I’m crying with laughter …

Sounds like there's a lot of folk needing a hearing check on here??

It took me ages to find out what my small son kept shouting during a buzz light-year film. It sounded like Doody Dindy an be an. ( To infinity and beyond). We still say it to this day.

In the ELO song Mr Blue Sky, I always thought the ending was them singing Mis-ter Blue Sky.
It isn’t. They are singing Please turn me over (as in a record).
Once heard, i couldn’t unhear it!

Some of these have got to be made up surely????

I’m 75 years and only just found out that it’s not “Maisie dotes and dozy dotes” etc.
thank you Kim19!