Friday Night is Music Night: Misheard Lyrics

[Seevio]

3rd line of the chorus: I can't hear anything but "I'm a bus driver". I'm pretty certain these can't be the lyrics but I don't want to search the actual words and spoil it.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmc8bQoL-J0

 

[Brandane]

Probably like many on this forum, my youth was spent listening to Radio 1 on medium wave which made the hearing of lyrics something of a lottery! There are a lot of songs I could mention, but this is for starters. My misheard lyric kind of misses the point of the song, and kills the romantic message of Sam Cooke somewhat.
"Cupid; draw back your bow, and let your arrow go straight THROUGH my lover's heart........"

 

[bruce1530]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbXWrmQW-OE


“A year has passed since I broke my nose"

These are sometimes known as “Mondegreens” - from the traditional Scots song “The Bonnie Earl O’Moray”, which contains the misheard line
"They have slain the Earl o’ Moray and Lady Mondegreen"

which should be
"They have slain the Earl o’ Moray and laid him on the green"

 

[mistyoptic]

Tom Jones, Green Green Grass of home.

for years I thought he sang “her golden lips like cherries”

 

[Accy cyclist]

The Green Green Grass Of Home - Tom Jones
"Hair of gold and lips like cherries",mistaken by me as A Pair of golden lips like cherries. As a child i used to think 'How can lips be gold in colour'?

 

[winjim]

View: https://youtu.be/txz83WACjxY

 

[winjim]

View: https://youtu.be/JNvQxyXu1Vc

 

[richardfm]

"I am waiting at this bar" my wife just heard this as "I'm waiting at the Spar", or possibly "spa". She asked me which it is.


View: https://youtu.be/avQfUeMqoj4?si=e18dC0ajUibcR5P9

 

[captain nemo1701]

Enya, Orinoco Flow:

'sail away, sail, away, sail away...'

becomes

'save a whale, save a whale....'