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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......

Luckygirl3 Sun 12-Oct-25 08:13:15

A Wayne in a manger
Be grateful in bed

Gingster Sun 12-Oct-25 08:22:07

My Dd came home from play group singing
‘Poor Jenny is a weakling’

ViceVersa Sun 12-Oct-25 08:36:52

Babs03

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.
🤨

Golden brown is about heroin - certainly no lover with golden skin! grin

Grandmabatty Sun 12-Oct-25 09:06:43

Bohemian Rhapsody
Actual words: spare him his life from this monstrosity
What I heard: spare him his life from these pork sausages

Maggiemaybe Sun 12-Oct-25 09:13:09

Golden brown is about heroin - certainly no lover with golden skin! grin

According to the writer, Hugh Cornwell, it’s about heroin and his girlfriend at the time.

He’d probably have been better off sticking to a bag of cheesy puffs.

jenpax Sun 12-Oct-25 10:52:16

Gingster

My Dd came home from play group singing
‘Poor Jenny is a weakling’

Speak as a Jenny I agree 😂

Caleo Sun 12-Oct-25 11:04:13

Thy foot heel not let slide

Caleo Sun 12-Oct-25 11:09:21

Where did the term mondegreen come from?
The term was coined in 1954 in a story in Harper's Magazine. Writer Sylvia Wright had misheard the words of the centuries-old Scottish ballad, The Bonny Earl of Murray, mistaking “They have slain the Earl of Murray and laid him on the green”, for, 'They have slain the Earl of Murray and Lady Mondegreen'.4 Jul 2022

Aveline Mon 13-Oct-25 20:18:38

'About three feet from the pin'!

swampy1961 Mon 13-Oct-25 20:25:00

Row, Row, Row your boat life is buttercream!! Took years before I realised it should have been Life is but a dream!!

Grantanow Tue 14-Oct-25 17:58:31

Gladly, my cross-eyed bear

Oldnproud Tue 14-Oct-25 19:10:48

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.

It was and will forever remain 'mancheros' in my mind 😁

Oldnproud Tue 14-Oct-25 19:19:47

I think that Chuck Berry's "my ding a ling" had the word "vestibule" in one lyric. Having never heard that word in real life, I sang along with the "best of you",

There are still countless old songs whose lyrics I have never been able to make out, and happily sing along to with my own approximation whenever they are played.

ClicketyClick Tue 14-Oct-25 20:36:33

Boney M Brown Girl in the Ring - she looked like a sugar in a plum plum plum. I always heard and sang it as She looked like a bugger in the the sun, sun sun.