Misheard lyrics

These recent music posts have been fun.  I'd like to hear some of your misheard lyrics--what you thought the words were

The one that stands out in my mind is the one song that sounds like "revved up like a douche"

Original Post by shinyblackpit:

My ex used to think that "Big Old Jet Airliner" was saying "Big Hotel in Atlanta!" I laughed my butt off but now when I listen I can totally hear it.

LOL, I thought it said that too for awhile.

Original Post by shinyblackpit:

My ex used to think that "Big Old Jet Airliner" was saying "Big Hotel in Atlanta!" I laughed my butt off but now when I listen I can totally hear it.

AHH!!  I always heard it as "Big Old Jed Leave the Light On" - I felt pretty stupid when I found out what it was.

Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

a deuce is a 1932 Ford hotrod.

This is a great thread, I have had a hearty laugh.    What about that Pina Colada song? "in the dunes of the cape".  I always heard "in the dune suffocate".  It never made any sense.

Original Post by spoiled_candy:

Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

a deuce is a 1932 Ford hotrod.

 Now the song is starting to make sense...LOL

Has anybody anywhere figured out the lyrics to "Louie Louie" without a copy of the lyrics?

Or "Hang on Sloopy"

Ha ha, my guy thought the pussycat dolls were saying "boobies" instead of "groupies" too in "When I grow up."

When I was younger I use to think they were saying "Hot potatoes, Hot potatoes" instead of "Amadeus, Amadeus" in the song "Amadeus" by Falco. Which wouldn't make much sense..but hey I was a lot younger. LMAO.

In the song "Puff the Magic Dragon," I thought that Puff lived by the sea, and frolicked in the autumn mist with a lamb called Honna Lee. 

I could never figure out whether the lamb was really brave or just stupid for frolicking with a dragon.

In that song Margaritaville, I thought it said "searching for my lost shaker of salt" and thought surely that MUST be wrong, but now knowing more about margaritas it makes a little more sense... sort of?  I am still not sure if those are the real words.

Oh, in that Led Zeppelin song, I thought it said "YOU NEED KOOL-AID" instead of "you need cooling"

"Searching for my lost shaker of salt" are the correct lyrics.

Okay, I remember one.

When I was little I thought in the Metallica song One it said:

And I am
Diggin' my sight
Diggin' my speech
Diggin' my hearing
Diggin' my arms
Diggin' my legs....

It's actually:

Landmine has
Taken my sight
Taken my speech
Taken my hearing
and so on.

For any oldies out there.... the Althea and Donna hit from 1978 'Uptown Top Ranking'.  When you've got lyrics like... "But a true dem no know and ting
Dem no know sey we top ranking"... you don't stand a chance.

The kid next door growning up used to say "The Dukes of Hazzard in the classroom" instead of dark sarcasm from Another Brick in the Wall. 

I can't remember the name of the song from the 80's-"What a feeling" maybe, but I thought it said "get your pants on and make it happen."  I think it is supposed to be "get your passion"

Actual Lyrics:  "Little red corvette!"

What I thought it said for the longest time:  "Baby, come back!"

New a girl who thought it was 'put a penny in a chest' instead of 'ba-ba-benny and the jets'.

i have a friend who is still convinced to this day that it's "Love is a fantasy"  :-) instead of battlefield

Sorry if this is another thread subject, but..Moonikins,  You know how you feel about X-mas music? Well, I feel the same way about songs like "Louie, Louie" and "Hang on Sloopy".... I call it "bad wedding reception" music...

i actually have a list of "songs that can not be played at my wedding"....

just a few- Old Time Rock n' Roll, Hang on Sloopy, White Wedding, Shout, Achy Breaky Heart...

Again, sorry to go off topic.

For years I thought that they were saying, "Gimme the Beach Boys to free my soul, I wanna get lost in your rock roll, and drift away."

Edit: as a result, every time I feel that my soul needs freeing I put on Pet Sounds.

My sister used to think that the lyrics to "Jet Airliner" were "Big ol' jammin' rhino, don't carry me too far away"