What lyric from a song have you misconstrued for a decade or longer?

Bad Moon Rising by CCR - "There's a bathroom on the right". And Rock Me by Great White - instead of "Rock Me"... "Harambe".

Not necessarily have I thought they said that, but they sound close enough for it to be funny.
 
Just thought of it, when I was a kid, I thought the band with Ace Frehley and Gene Simmons was K177!
 
John105 said:
Can anyone actually write out the lyrics to Iko Iko?!
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I've heard several versions from the Neville Bros to Dixie Cups to Grateful Dead. I'm not sure that it has set lyrics or maybe you need a Cajun to decipher them. Hey now, Jacka mo fee nah nay.
 
Leo99 said:
I've heard several versions from the Neville Bros to Dixie Cups to Grateful Dead. I'm not sure that it has set lyrics or maybe you need a Cajun to decipher them. Hey now, Jacka mo fee nah nay.
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My understanding is the Dixie Cups made it popular. We went to a restaurant in Nawlins called Jacques IMO’s. This was 2004 and long wait. I was thinking in my head, don’t you say it! One of the ladies in the party said the alligator tasted like chicken 😡
 
The Breakup Song by The Greg Kihn Band where it goes “They don’t write em like that anymore” I always thought it said “I didn’t love my daddy anymore”

The only way I found out I was wrong was watching the lyrics video on YouTube lol 😂 for my entire life I thought it was the I didn’t love my daddy anymore lol 😂.
 
There’s so many to choose from.
Here’s a disco song:
Lady Marmalade - The song is famous for the repeated refrain of "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?" in French as part of the chorus, a sexually suggestive line that translates into English as: "Do you want to sleep with me?"
 
dippschtick said:
AC/DC Back in Black
"now I'm back on track and I'm needing a...
Knowing this would not be allowed on the radio, I knew this was probably not right.
But I was a teenager so that's what I went with.
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No problem…..NOBODY understands what Brian Johnson is singing! :p
 
Elton Johns “Benny and the jets” …I can’t understand the words for almost the entire song !
 
Tom Jones, "She's A Lady".

I thought it was....... "Always something nice to say while I'm blastin"...... It really was, "Always something nice to say, oh what a blessing".

And there there are the lyrics to every single song Mick Jagger ever sang... Does anyone know a single line?

ZZ Top Legs.

I thought it was, "She's got legs tied to her fanny. She's got a big set that drives the men batty"..... It really was, "She's got hair down to her fanny. She's kinda jet set, try to undo her panties".
 
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dippschtick said:
AC/DC Back in Black
"now I'm back on track and I'm needing a...
Knowing this would not be allowed on the radio, I knew this was probably not right.
But I was a teenager so that's what I went with.
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And I'm beatin' the flack... (whatever flack is).
 
Judas Priest. I thought I heard........ "I got a race car comin down the road" Nope........."I got an ace card comin down on the rocks"
 
From Adele's 'Send My Love (To Your New Lover)'.

Actual lyrics:

Send my love to your new lover
Treat her better
We've gotta let go of all of our ghosts
We both know we ain't kids no more

What I hear:

Jeans are better.
We've gotta let go of all of our clothes.
 
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