LMAO

I remember there was a Ricky Scaggs song my mother liked, the line was "don't get above your raisins". I used to sing, "don't get a buggy raisin". My sister never sang "Ethel, get your clothes on" in the song "The Streak". She called that poor woman a bad name.

Thanks for the laughter, I needed it today.

The word for something misheard is "Mondegreen".

I consider the offering of that bit of trivia to be my greatest contribution to this forum by the way....

;)

What about Jimmi Hendrix in Purple Haze "'scuse me while I kiss this guy" and Red Hot Chilli Peppers "Kiss ya little midget" in By They Way?

Just found a whole website on this topic, hilarious: http://www.amiright.com/misheard/artist/

Thanks for bringing this one up! :-)

www.kissthisguy.com

is also a great website for mondegreens.

my personal 'oops' moment was for 'you shook me all night long' by AC/DC...

real lyric: you shook me all night long'
misheard: 'you should be on my lawn'

AND my son thought this...

real lyric: 'she was a fast machine'
misheard: 'she was a fax machine'

"hold me close Tony Danza"

Elton John's Tiny Dancer

I still sometimes sing:
"while shepherds washed their socks by night..." and no-one every notices.

My friend thought "Raise A Little Hell" by Trooper was "Pray For Little Al". It still strikes me funny when I hear that song.

The one that I personally *still* think is a fact is Paul Simon's Graceland where he sings "the way she brushed her hair from her forehead". I am sure he actually says "the way she brushed her hair and farted".

from Silent Night:
Round John Virgin (which sounds like a portly male to me -- not a Blessed Mother)

My favourite from Kenny Rogers Lucille:
400 children and a crop in the fields

Ou wa, ou wa pooh pooh kitty
Talking about the girl from New York City.

My sister's hearing. It makes me laugh everytime I hear the song.

Blinded by the Light by ELO or the dude from ELO... I always thought it went

"Blinded it by the light! Revved up like a douche bag another rumour in the night"

Apparently it's "..revved up like deuce.."

Oh! and I used to think The Eagles Hotel California went

"On a dark desert highway, coolwhip in my hair"

Instead of "Cool wind"

"To seek justice, and love kindness, and walk humbly, with your DOG"

Thats how I sang it for the longest time when I was little. (It sound be GOD)

An ex-girlfriend from way back, who when she was a little girl thought the "Old Rugged Cross" was the "Old Bugged Rug."

"Gladly, the cross-eyed bear"

In Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall, I always sang...'we don't need no education, we don't need no birth control'

Courtesy of my 12yo daughter who sang this line at the community choir concert last night and managed to keep a straight face:

"Barney's the king of I-is-ra-el"

Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville "Blew out my flip flop Stepped on a Pop-Tart"

When I was little I thought that it was:
"I will eat you all, wherever you may be,
I will eat you all at the dance said he."

I thought it was a celebration of cannabalizm

FUnny funny funny.....

My sister thought that the line from the grease song:

REal lyric "tell me more tell me more"
misheard "tubby boy tubby boy"

My frliend that the Snow song "informer" was "a farmer"

and my husband thought that Jessie's girl was "gypsie's girl" until just a few years ago!!!

These are great -- in the same spirit, my daughter's boyfriend always thought that "conspiring by the fire" in Winter Wonderland was "perspire by the fire" -- seems to fit!

There's a lovely story in the children's section of the December Observer magazine - all about "Hark the Harold Angels Sing" - it's a cute little gender story because all the little girl angels are called Gladys and they want to know why they can't sing too.

When I was a kid I used to sing
"Good King Wincelas last looked out ----"
It put a different angle on the carol.