I'm sure we've all listened to songs and misheard the lyrics before and for years sung the wrong words. There's plenty out there so I'll start the ball rolling with this little Vid. Add your bloopers or others and we can all have a laugh.
Bad boyz bad boyz watch y gonna chew, watch y gonna chew when they come for you...ba badi na.....thats it done, start beat boxing round about now.
My daughter is 19 today...and I still remind her about when she used to sing a song from the Tweenies...the lyrics were "1, 2 check the microphone" but she would sing "chicken on the phone" ...still makes me laugh 16 yrs on.
An ex of mine used to sing 'I'd like to mend her tiles' to Jamiroqui's Cosmic girl for the line 'I'd like to Magnetise'
Getting things wrong usually just makes you look a bit silly However, for one poor bloke it got a bit more serious. He is the singer in a Clash tribute band, London Calling, and not being able to make out Joe Strummer's words towards the end of their 1978 single Tommy Gun, he sent a text [intended for a band mate] his interpretation of the lines, for mutual agreement: "How about this for Tommy Gun? OK - so let's agree about the price and make it one jet airliner for 10 prisoners." Okay, he sent it to the wrong number and to cut a long story short, he was interviewed by Special Branch about terrorism. If you don't know the words be careful, folks. Special Branch are listening
Amazing how they twigged on so quick, you have to bough down to their speed. **** like that must drive them conkers at times. I'll bet he'll leaf it out after barking his mouth off in future.
I always thought it was " Working on a knife hoot" instead of " Working on a Night move " and sang it many times before a friend gave me the scoop.
I was a bit confused when the Who's album Tommy came out because I thought the line in Pinball Wizard was "That deaf, dumb and blind kid, Sean, plays a mean pinball"
Heard some last season from Spurs fans - sounded like We're Coming For You, We're Coming For You Leicester City, We're Coming For You Turns out it was merely poor acoustics ... the actual lyrics were: We're Looking At You, You're Awesome It's True We've No ****in' Title, And We Blew Second Too