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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
Admit it - songs you've realized you've been singing the wrong lyrics too
There are so many I couldn't even list them, but my most recent was The Pussycat Dolls "When I Grow Up"
Yes, I sang "When I grow up I want to have boobies." I now realize that the words are "When I grow up I want to have groupies." My 6 year old niece danced to it in her recitial, and I was horrified, until my sister-in-law informed me of the actual lyrics...
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Re: Admit it - songs you've realized you've been singing the wrong lyrics too
Pour Some Sugar on Me
DH is a huge Def Leppard fan and he corrected my lyrics not too long ago. I felt stupid. I've been singing that song since I was little.
American Hi-Fi: Flavor of the week
We always sang "nintendo" but them someone told us it was "to know". So, I starting singing "to know" but it is actually " Nintendo".
Warren Zevon: Werewolves of London
I thought it was Werewolves of thunder.
LMAO!!!! Sadly, I probably have sang that song pretty similarly....
I am just horrible with song lyrics
"you make me feel, you make me feel, you make me feel like a man i'm a woman"
what's that you say?!? it's you make me feel like a natural woman? surely that can't be right.....
WOW - that's pretty bad. I consider myself a parrothead (again, making myself feel old) but I really though everyone knew the lyrics were "lost shaker of salt." That is REALLY funny.
Glamorous by Fergie
...reminiscing on days when I had a "mustache".
Apparently it's "Mustang."
I don't know the name of the song but it is by Amy Grant and something about paradise and a parking lot. For a long time I thought she was saying " If you hate paradise, put up a parking lot." My boss corrected me and said " If you pave paradise put up a parking lot." I remember thinking " Hmm that makes sense."
Also the Christmas song " Sleigh Ride" for years and I mean years I thought they were saying " Lets take that rosy forest." A little while ago I figured out they were saying " Lets take that road before us."
Tiny Dancer.
I thought he said "hold me closer Tony Danza". I wish I was kidding.
Oh I have another one but it isn't mine but a friend. When she was younger she liked the Tiffany song " I think we're alone now." However she didn't know the lyrics and went around singing " A pink willamonia."
One time she asked her mom what a willamonia was and of course her mom had no idea.
My friend, as a child, would sing the song "Simply Irresistible" as "Sit and watch your sister bowl"
"There's a bathroom on the right!"
It wasn't until college when my roommate said to me, "What did you just say? The name of the song is 'There's a BAD MOON ON THE RISE' " Really? All my life I thought there was a 'bathroom on the right"!!
LMAO!!!
Yup- I've got that one under my belt too! I still sing it that way!!!
Me too! I like it better that way.
Ha ha - my son use to sing that song.. I don't know by who.. but it went ...
smack my b!tch up - he would sing.. Snap my picture ...then many yrs later that song came on and my officemate also sang.. snap my picture.
I about died. I never corrected my son for obvious reason, but I did laugh my butt off at my officemate and told her the correct words.
Max 4-08-08 and Michael 2-03-91 (19 years olds)
oh, thank google. for a second i thought you were confusing frakking amy grant with joni mitchell and i was going to come through the computer, but then i googled and saw amy grant covered big yellow taxi.
*takes deep soothing breath*
There is an old song by a group called Herman's Hermits. My Mom used to listen to an oldies station all the time and one day, I was singing to a song of theirs. She turned the radio down and asked me to repeat what I just sang. I was singing, "There's a can of fish....all over the world....tonight" when in reality the lyrics were, "There's a kind of HUSH...all over the world....tonight".
Oops.
I always used to sing Heaven by Warrant. The lyrics are "Heaven isn't too far away" and I used to sing "Heaven listen too, by the way" I still hear those words when I hear the song.
Sadly, I was corrected in elementary school when playing a game of Statue. Remember that game? Where you had to freeze and then the person picking the statues unfroze you and you did something so you would get picked next? Well, I tried singing "Heaven" and was quickly laughed at. I was not picked.
I have two from when I was little:
- The Neil Diamond song "Forever in Blue Jeans". I thought he was singing "Reverend Blue Jeans", and the song was about a cool Reverend who wore jeans. I freaked out a few years ago when this topic came up on King of Queens because I thought I was the only one who thought this.
- There was an Eddie Rabbit song called "Driving My Life Away", but he sang the lyrics really fast and I thought he was saying "Ooooooh liverwurst". My mom still brings it up today and this was when I was 3.
Sorry it was the Amy Grant version. It was part of the Muzak on the intercom system at work so I heard it all the freaking time. However my boss did correct me when she found out I was saying it wrong.