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Ok, I thought of 2 lyrics that I misheard as a kid, and my older brother made fun of me when he found out...
1. Aerosmith... instead of "walk this way", I heard "on display"... LOL
2. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young... instead of "four dead in Ohio", I heard "forgetting Ohio"... LOL
--Vik 
I was about 12 or 13 when the AC/DC song Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap was released. At the time there was a teenage girl living across the road from me named Dawn Derr. When she first heard the song, she thought they were saying "dirty deeds, Dawn Derr's cheap"... hahahaha... and to this day I can't hear that song without thinking THOSE lyrics in my head!
--Vik
"Thirty thieves and the thunder chief"
"Dirty knees and the fun dirt cheese"
"Thirty bees and the small curd cheese"
Oh my cousin and I used to come up with so many of those. Everytime we heard that song we would come up with a new one.
I use to think Scorpions were singing 'may get rid of his disease' instead of 'make it real or fantasy'
my sister's ex boyfriend thought Crack the Sky was singing 'hot raisins in my heart' instead of hot razors in my heart
my husband, even though he knows i say it isn't so, thinks 'Lunatic fringe' is 'lunatic Rich'
the fansite has Mother love lyrics as 'i can't front like that' but i used to think Joe was singing 'I can't f*** (ryhmes with duck) like that'
Jane,
I still hear f*** in that song. Try as I will, I can not hear "front".
MontiusWinston wrote:"Dirty knees and the fun dirt cheese"
"Thirty bees and the small curd cheese"
Monti,
Are you making fun of the Cheese State a/k/a Wisconsin? How about:
"Dirty Sleeze! Who cut the Cheese?"
Roy
Hell no I would never make fun of them. Well maybe a little....
But it is as though I have always said: When the Packers and the Chiefs play one another, the tailgate parties are the stuff of legend. Great BBQ and great cheese products. Can't go wrong.
"Thirty bees and they found my keys"
Montius Pilate
wow, i never thought about this one before - Stairway to Heaven - i have always thought it was "if the STORES are all closed" but last night i heard a version where I heard "if the STARS are all closed" which is kinda cooler. I have no idea which is right.
Please advise!!!!!!!!!
I believe it is "stores."
Speaking of that song:
http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm
Hehe makes me chuckle.
I can only think of a couple mostly bacuse i have found out the right lyrics and they became so ingrained i forgot the words i used to use....
I always thought in the pledge of allegiance it was 'invisible' rather than 'indivisible'- it never made sense to me what on earth did being invisible have to do with it???
Hard to Handle- now i had only heard the black crowes version at this time- which may have contributed i dont know... buti thought it was
'down by the dozen' instead of 'dime by the dozen'
and my absolute favourite.. my brother used to sing 'i believe i can fly' at the top of his lungs in the bath (he was like 3 at the time) and he never accepted the real lyrics until he could read them for himself...
'I think about it every night and day'- was turned into 'i think about it every naughty day'!
Oh and not to forget- everytime i hear "ridin' dirty" - by that guy- um is is chamillionare or something- nope its WHITE AND NERDY all the way! In fact its actually the 2nd most played song on my ipod- my daughter tinks its hillarious- which i am quite disturbed by!
Just got another one - Aretha Franklin : "Think"
Real lyrics: People walking around everyday, playing games that they can score
My version: People walking around everyday, playing games at liquid stores ....
Eva
oh yes... see none of mine are really funny... I was watching American Idol (i have to do my bit! Being Half American!) And one of girls sang Tobbaco Road... I swear to you in all these years i thought it was Tobbaco Grove... (which is better actually) I just thought well maybe thats what a field of Tobbaco is- a "grove".
Here's one for you Eva:
"Excuse me while I kiss this guy!" Insteaf of:
"Excuse me while I kiss the sky" (Hendrix's "Purple Haze")
If you use the first one, just don't let your boyfriend find out.
Roy
Roy, that´s funny!
I just remembered another one - a friend of mine used to sing the acoustic version of "Sweet Home Alabama" and there´s one line that goes like this:
"Sweet home Alabama where the skies are so blue. And the governer is true."
He always sang "And the governer is too" - but the funny thing is, that "to be blue" doesn´t mean "to be sad" in German, but it means "to be drunk"! So he always thought that the Alabama governor was drunk! 
Eva
BluesMan wrote:Here's one for you Eva:
"Excuse me while I kiss this guy!" Insteaf of:
"Excuse me while I kiss the sky" (Hendrix's "Purple Haze")
If you use the first one, just don't let your boyfriend find out.
Roy
Roy, that´s funny!
I just remembered another one - a friend of mine used to sing the acoustic version of "Sweet Home Alabama" and there´s one line that goes like this:
"Sweet home Alabama where the skies are so blue. And the governer is true."
He always sang "And the governer is too" - but the funny thing is, that "to be blue" doesn´t mean "to be sad" in German, but it means "to be drunk"! So he always thought that the Alabama governor was drunk!Eva
Oh he probably was, don't worry.
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