*Maxi*

This might be old news, but I found this rather funny site and thought I'd share. It's a site with quotes to misheard parts of lyrics. It isn't 80s only, but you can find lots of 80s stuff by searching on the artists. I have had some fun with it this afternoon. Do you find any favourites?

Misheard Lyrics

For example:

Michael Jackson's, "Bad"

Misheard Lyrics:

Well they say the sky's the limit
And to me they smell of fruit
And my friend you had said nothing
Just the way to Agadoo.

Correct Lyrics:

Well they say the sky's the limit
And to me that's really true
But my friend, you have seen nothing
Just wait 'til I get through.

groovyk1

OMG I used to mishear loads of lyrics. Its so funny when you look back and realise

LadyZ

Hehe...here's one I only figured out a few weeks ago on this board!

Down Under
Men at Work

Misheard lyrics:

He just smiled and gave me a bite of his sandwich

Correct lyrics:

He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich

I always wondered why he would have let some stranger have a bite of his food. Once I found out it was "vegemite", it made so much more sense. Very Aussie.

*Maxi*

I know, I only figured it out here too.

And yeah, it makes more sense the correct way.

groovyk1

People used to laugh at me...because I'd be singing something with the wrong lyrics....and they knew what the real ones were

LadyZ

This one isn't a lyric, but in the states we have Sarah Lee products (bakery items). The commercial ad line was

Nobody does it like Sarah Lee.

For years and years, I thought it was Nobody doesn't like Sarah Lee.

I wasn't that far off, but my friend thought it was funny when I was singing along to the commercial.

*Maxi*

Another example that had me giggling:

Guns 'n' Roses

Misheard Lyrics:

Take me down to the Prairie-Dog City.

Correct Lyrics:

Take me down to the Paradise City.

*Maria*

Heh. I remember starting a thread about this ages ago. I have so many misheard lyrics I used to sing like they were correct. Like...

Correct:
I've got my mind set on you - George Harrison
Oh, god, my mom sat on you - Me


Oh, and LadyZ... you should probably tell your friend to stop laughing, or laugh at her yourself, because the slogan has always actually beenNobody doesn't like Sara Lee.

LadyZ

Maria!

You know what's funny? I switched it in my post. All those years I thought it was the wrong one only to realize it was doesn't not does it. So my friend really was right.

Here is one my dad had wrong. You know the song by Neil Diamond called, Sweet Caroline?

Real:
Sweet Car-o-line...

Dad's version:
Please tell a lie...

*Maria*

Ah, okay.

I always sang "How's about a Date?", this great song with good bass in it, when I was growing up. I heard a looooooong time later that the song was actually Billy Idol's "Eyes Without a Face". Whoops.

LadyZ

That's a good one!

(How funny, Billy Idol's video for White Wedding just came on MTV)

-Kelly-

Vegemite is yummy

I can't think of any Lyrics, sorry

Tuffy

I have that all the time..!
I dont know if any of you know the song Boogie Wonderland I was under the assumption that is was Boogy woogy dance for years...

*Maxi*

Hee, I can understand why you mistook the lyrics that way. It's a good song.

Aussie bubbles

Somebody has already mentioned this song, however I will mention it again.

MEN AT WORK - LAND DOWN UNDER: (the coloured lyrics are what I thought it was)
Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said,

"Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder? (Where women blow)
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."

Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscles
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
And he said,

"I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."

Lying in a den in Bombay (lying DEAD in Bombay)
With a slack jaw, and not much to say
I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me
Because I come from the land of plenty?"
And he said,

"Oh! Do you come from a land down under? (oh yeah yeah)
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover.

I know there are other lines I misheard in this song but I just know the lyrics so well now I have forgotten.