Misheard lyrics

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My 12 year old thought Abba's Chiquitita was 'chicken tikka'

It's probably already been said but I laugh when I listen to Tiny Dancer, that old story of someone thinking it was 'hold me closer Tony Danza'
 
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In Drag Me Down by One Direction, I always thought it was, “the shell of a mannequin that could never be his best”. It’s actually “the shell of a man that could never be his best”.
 
My mum.

Akon - smack that.

"why is he singing about flapjack?"

Flapjack all on the floor
Flapjack give me some more
Flapjack til you get sore
Flapjack oh oh ohhh
 
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My friend always used to get the lyrics wrong growing up, my faves were:

“Even when I lick my boob, you know I’m crazy over you” ~ Nelly - Dilemma

“Go Charlie, it’s your birthday” ~ 50 Cent - In da club
 
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In U2's "Where The Streets Have No Name " I was convinced that in the chorus Bonio sang "We're still building that Birmingham love" but apparently the official lyric is " We're still building then burning down love".

Shame really, I thought he was quite fond of Brummies.
 
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We where in the car once and my son (then aged about 8) asked if we could play ‘the Willy Willy song’

i looked my my sister in law-she looked at me-where the hell has he picked up a porno?!

who am I going to kill for exposing my innocent poppet to this crap?!

la ketchup song…
 
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My daughter used to sing ‘fever woooaaahhh’ instead of ‘feed the world’! She genuinely thought they were the words. Plus one of my friends used to sing ‘take your teeth out tell me what’s wrong’ to the Abba song ‘chiquitita tell me whats wrong’ 😂

I used to sing 'Girls hit you hallelujah' and its 'girls say to ya hallelujah'
I thought it was ‘girls hitch a hallelujah’ 😂

I also woke up to my friend singing ‘wooaahh living in a square’ 😂 as opposed to ‘living on a prayer!’
 
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I thought it was "for you and your kinG" for way too long when I used to hear/sing We Wish You A Merry Christmas. :oops:
 
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I know the correct lyric is 'pumpkin ' but I am convinced Brenda Lee sings ' later we'll have some bleeping pie and do some carolling'
 
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Recent ones, they're embarrassingly juvenile.

Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk - "This one, for them hood girls, them good girls, straight masterpieces" - Thought it said '"straight masturbates". Couldn't understand how they got away with it...I'm not even convinced it's not intentional

Dido - Surrender - "I will go down with this ship and I won't put my hands up and surrender" - I knew it couldn't be but I hear "I will poop myself and surrender"
 
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Adele - When we were young...

“My god this reminds me, of when we were young” NOT “my darkness reminds me...”

Only discovered this on Sunday.
 
As a kid I used to think it was Return to Santa instead of Return to Sender, little me thought it was about sending back unwanted Christmas gifts 😂
 
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Freed from desire by Gala - only just found out it’s “my lovers got no money he’s got his strong beliefs”

I was convinced it was “he’s got his trumberlice”
 
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Sacrifice by Elton John. My sister and I both thought the lyrics were 'cocoa hot, was done by you'. Its actually 'cold cold heart, hard done by you'.

We just thought he was reminiscing about the time he used to get hot cocoa made for him. We both found out at the exact same time only last year that we'd been singing it wrong all these years.
i thought, until about 10 seconds ago, that it was coco heart .........oh dear
 
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In the song Feel It by The Tamperer ft Maya

I thought it said "what's she gonna look like when I shimmy on her". It actually says "What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her?"

Also Mousse T's Horny. In my younger and more innocent days I used to think she said "honey" and not "horny".
 
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