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

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.

I didn't know that

Dottynan

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

Me too. What is it really?

In Stevie Wonder's "You can feel it all over", where he sings "they can feel it all over", it sounds to me like he is singing "Mick and Phyllis are lovers"

What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong. I thought he sang. The dogs say good night. !! It was. The dark sacred night !! ?

Stones, I see a Red door
Hubble insisted it was “I see a Rickshaw and I want to paint it black.

In the song Night Boat To Cairo they sing ‘with an oar in his hand, floats off down the river Nile’. I embarrassed myself no end by saying to my friends I was amazed they’d play such a rude song on Radio One. I thought the lyrics were ‘With an ‘hore (whore) in his hand, blow jobs down the river Nile’ ??

Lilypops Same for me I only found out last year! Also just found out The Style Council sing 'shout to the top' I thought it was 'shop till you drop'

infoman my Mum thought the same about Maggie May, she was shocked and told me not to listen to it!

As a 16 year old i thought „ hot chocolate „ sang Wear your bra you sexy thing ?

There is a hilarious thing on Carl Orff’s “O fortuna” on YouTube.
My sister always used to sing “And keep away for ever and ever” from the Hallelujah chorus!

Back in the 60's I always thought the Supremes were singing "with cats and dogs" instead of " reflections of"!

Me too lol

Still convinced that Michael Jackson sang, "Take a look for the postcode, don't stop till you get enough". Never found out the real lyric!
Noel Edmonds did a section in his radio show every week on misheard lyrics and said Elvis singing,"Teddy Bear" had the doo-wop group backing him singing, "Hot banana,nanas"-he's right you know!

Geordiegirl1. Thank you for enlightening me. I have always thought it was Lesley!?

Hiraeth

As a 16 year old i thought „ hot chocolate „ sang Wear your bra you sexy thing ?

Yes, me too! ???

We’re black pudding
Should be
We’re barefooting!!!!!

ABBA Super Trooper ‘When I called you last night from Tesco’! Actually Glasgow

Kim19
Prefer your version ?

Thank you for the Peter Kay link which will keep us smiling all day

Well, it is officially 'Mairzy Doats'. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairzy_Doats

I thought that the song in Annie, was “It’s a hard enough life” but it should be “It’s a hard knock life”

For my daughter it was I'm a nine stone cowboy instead of rhinestone cowboy in Glen Campbell song.

Davy Crocket, king of the wild front ear.

While shepherds washed their socks at night

Why waste your time - I always thought they were singing Wild Disco Time.
Many years ago a friends young son sang "Onward Christmas soldiers marching up the wall".