Mondegreens.

Going back decades! I had to Google this one, Poor Me by Adam Faith, for the actual words. Apparently the line is: Sit and cry that this was meant to be, but my little sister's version was, Silly guy assasessapee.... No idea what sense she made of assasessapee... 😶

DGS after watching Madagasca ‘I like to Moob it moob it’

Grandma70s

Our Father, which art in heaven, Harold be thy name.

😂😂

Deedaa

Desmond Dekker and The Isrealites - or as I prefer it -Me ears are alight.

My grandmother told me that for years she used to sing a hymn about Gladly the cross-eyed bear.

That last part reminds me of Alanis Morrisette's You Oughta Know - 'It's not fair to deny me, of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me'.

I misheard I'm so horny for I like honey. My teenagers told me in the end when I was singing "I like honey" outside and they took great joy in telling me the real words and what it was about.

'A year has passed since I broke my nose'. DHs rendition of Message in a bottle - 'since I wrote my note'.

There was a song in the 70s called Smarty Pants.

The words were...they call her Smarty Pants looking for romance

My friend's man sang...they call her Frying Pan looking for a man

"Where the Mountains of Mourne leap down to the sea"

A friend used to sing along to the Jam's "Eating Trifle". And another has asked, "Are we human? Or are we hamster?"

LadyHonoriaDedlock

MissAdventure

I've just remembered being quite young and singing along to my favourite song at that time "Feeling Grooby"
My family teased me relentlessly about that and it really embarrassed me to this day.
Grooby, indeed!

There's a village near Leicester called Groby, pronounced "Grooby". Perhaps that's what the locals sing.

I used to live in the Gate House at the old Groby Road Hospital, next to the morgue and the Crem was just up the road.
When a Child is born had just been released, the children always sang when a child has drawn. They liked their crayons in the infants.

Luckygirl3

A Wayne in a manger
Be grateful in bed.

I like that one it reminds me of work, I always got. We three Kings off Orient Far ,One in a taxi one in a car. DH knew a ruder version and the little boy who sang this in the Christmas Nativity also flashed at the same time,I had told them to get undressed and put the nativity close on he went one further and took his briefs off.

Kim19

Mairsie dotes and dosey dotes and little amsy tivey. A kiddley tivey too, wouldn't you?

Reality..... Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy too, wouldn't you?

Much too embarrassing to declare what age I was before discovering this was not just a nonsense song!

We sang this a lot when we were kids, Kim19. Once we knew the "translation" we used to end it with "clog" instead of 'wooden shoe'. 😁

I have always posted a link to a YouTube clip of Carmina Burana when this subject comes up; it always has me in hysterics. I've discovered a new one -

youtu.be/Y88vF0l8FDo

I hope you find it as funny as I do.

Are the residents known as Groobers?

MissAdventure

I've just remembered being quite young and singing along to my favourite song at that time "Feeling Grooby"
My family teased me relentlessly about that and it really embarrassed me to this day.
Grooby, indeed!

There's a village near Leicester called Groby, pronounced "Grooby". Perhaps that's what the locals sing.

DS aged 4. Away in a manger, no crisps for a bed

I love the classic Beatles one, The girl with colitis goes by.

Desmond Dekker and The Isrealites - or as I prefer it -Me ears are alight.

My grandmother told me that for years she used to sing a hymn about Gladly the cross-eyed bear.

Mairsie dotes and dosey dotes and little amsy tivey. A kiddley tivey too, wouldn't you?

Reality..... Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy too, wouldn't you?

Much too embarrassing to declare what age I was before discovering this was not just a nonsense song!

Because of ham 😂

Hetty58

(Daughter) 'Every time you go away - you take a piece of meat with you!'

My son sang that too!

My school friend used to sing "You don't have to say you love me just because of ham"

A Wayne in a manger
Be grateful in bed.

Westlife: I'll be ok now. Misheard as. I'll be your caveman!

For years I thought the line from Paul Simon's 'Gracelands' 'The way she brushed her hair from her forehead' was 'she brushed her hair and farted'....

I've just remembered being quite young and singing along to my favourite song at that time "Feeling Grooby"
My family teased me relentlessly about that and it really embarrassed me to this day.
Grooby, indeed!