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ferry23 Sat 11-Oct-25 16:44:34

A list just appeared on Fb with commonly misheard song lyrics - it got me thinking. Here are ours - what are yours?

I was sick and tired of everything, when you called me last night from Tesco's (Dancing Queen)

Bicycle hut, Bicycle Hut (My Simple Heart)

Sage and onion, sage an onion (Say that You Love me)

I'm a cigarette, I'm a cigarette (I'm a Single Lady)

Go......

JamesandJon33 Sat 11-Oct-25 18:42:49

Hallelujah sung by a child at school. Harry Hoover, Harry Hoover.

Peter Carr has some very funny ones on YouTube

Tenko Sat 11-Oct-25 18:44:13

My mum called the Ian Dury song hit me with your mallet mick instead of hit me with your rhythm stick

Hiraeth Sat 11-Oct-25 18:49:48

Hot chocolate I always used to think they were singing „ wear your bra , you sexy thing „ and it’s „ where you from you sexy thing „ 🤣

Lizziethelab Sat 11-Oct-25 18:50:40

Aveline

Four hundred children and a crop in the field,
You picked the wrong time to leave me Lucille!

Just love that!! I keep laughing about it.

Babs03 Sat 11-Oct-25 18:52:53

merlotgran

^My old mum loved a song called ‘poetry in motion’ but would sing ‘oh a tree in motion’.^

So did mine. 😂

🤣

ViceVersa Sat 11-Oct-25 19:01:45

Rainwashed

Don't marry her have me by the beautiful south. I thought it was don't marry her Habean ( and assumed Habean was a name.
Night fever by the Bee Gees, my friend and I thought there was a line, "It's the night for the night bus ride, hurry now and catch it" !

You've not heard the original (not radio friendly!) version of that Beautiful South track then? grin

Rainwashed Sat 11-Oct-25 19:16:55

Yes Vice Versa I have now but hadn't when I mistook the lyrics. Prefer the sanitised version anyway.

Maggiemaybe Sat 11-Oct-25 19:41:24

Golden brown, texture like sun
Lays me down, with my mancheros…

I never questioned what a manchero was. If I’d been asked I might have said some sort of tasty snack.

It’s “with my mind she runs”, apparently.

Deedaa Sat 11-Oct-25 20:02:13

It was years before my grandmother confessed that she'd been singing the hymn "Gladly the cross I'd bear" as "Gladly the cross eyed bear"! I remember someone doing a spoof of "The Israelites" singing "Me ears are alight" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" - "Beelzebub has the Devil for a sideboard"

AGAA4 Sat 11-Oct-25 20:05:04

Every time you go away you take a piece of meat with you (should be me)

Grannybags Sat 11-Oct-25 20:19:49

I was going to say that one AGAA4!!

keepcalmandcavachon Sat 11-Oct-25 20:24:22

My little one would belt out these hymns-
Gold cherries on the mountain, over the hills & far away and
The urgent Mary had a baby boy

MiniMoon Sat 11-Oct-25 20:30:54

I believe that the hot dogs go on. (My heart will go on) Celine Dion.

youtu.be/NivZhWYepas?si=JE4jRAFQNm308Ce4

MiniMoon Sat 11-Oct-25 20:31:59

Meant to add Peter Kay's Misheard Song Lyrics.

Mel1967 Sat 11-Oct-25 20:37:39

Wash your back
Wash your back, real good

(Want You Back, Take That)

Grannybags Sat 11-Oct-25 20:50:41

Hippo Roo Jack - Hit the road Jack

Grannybags Sat 11-Oct-25 20:51:54

You don’t have to say you love me just because of ham - Dusty Springfield

Doodledog Sat 11-Oct-25 20:54:49

Lizziethelab

Aveline

Four hundred children and a crop in the field,
You picked the wrong time to leave me Lucille!

Just love that!! I keep laughing about it.

No, it was four hundred children had a crap in the field grin

Also, 'then I saw her face. Now I'm gonna leave her' (I'm a believer)

jenpax Sat 11-Oct-25 21:01:06

“I think we better deep fry now” - I think we better leave right now Will Young 😂

Grannmarie Sat 11-Oct-25 21:17:44

You've been slimming for weeks
You've got the teeth of the Hydra upon you

Should be,
You're slim and you're weak...

On that theme,

I predict a diet, I predict a diet!

Babs03 Sat 11-Oct-25 21:35:51

Maggiemaybe

Golden brown, texture like sun
Lays me down, with my mancheros…

I never questioned what a manchero was. If I’d been asked I might have said some sort of tasty snack.

It’s “with my mind she runs”, apparently.

I thought it was ‘with my mancheros’.
Imagined that mancheros was Spanish for a lover or someone with golden brown skin.
🤨

Magenta8 Sat 11-Oct-25 21:47:40

When I was at school I really did think that the words were:-

All things bright and beautiful.
All teachers great and small.

and

Away in a manger no crib for a bed
The little Malteser lay down his sweet head

Mel1967 Sat 11-Oct-25 21:58:19

We’re making love in a Femidom

(We are family, Sister Sledge)

pably15 Sun 12-Oct-25 00:43:06

keep them coming, I'm sore laughing...

absent Sun 12-Oct-25 03:25:24

For a long time, my late husband thought that the line in Bohemian Rhapsody was "spare him his life for his warm sausages". (I think the correct version is spare him his life for this monstrosity.)