Misheard Lyrics: Oh, Is That What He Said?

Hillarious, Jack!

When I was a kid, I thought John Michael was singing “sink won’t swim” instead of “sink or swim.”

For the longest time, I didn’t understand all of the words in the chorus of Garth’s “American Honky Tonk Bar Association.” Also, I had no idea what Garth was saying when he sang “men” in “Papa Loved Mama.” To this day, it doesn’t sound like “men” to me.

I have a friend who can never interpret or understand lyrics accurately. She is offended by Diamond Rio’s “Beautiful Mess” because she thinks the singer is complaining about how his life is a mess since the woman came into it. Even after a thorough explanation of the song, she is steadfast in her offense. This same friend is sure that John Mayer is singing “Balance in wonderland” instead of “your body’s a wonderland.” When I told her the real lyrics, she said “oh, well, I like my words better”…because she is very prudish about matters of intimacy.

My little cousin didn’t know what Birmingham was like in the song “Paint Me A Birmingham”, so she sang “Paint Me A Burning Ham”

They were discussing this topic on some morning show I was listening to a while back and one woman called in and said she thought Doug Stone was singing “I’d be better off in a pie box” rather than “pine box.”

I’ll admit I was kind of let-down to find out (about halfway through the single’s run) that Toby Keith wasn’t singing, “Get Drunk and Beat Somebody.”

Along the lines of CF’s “Boot Scootin Boogie” lyric, I once read that a listener complained to a radio station about the song “Dumas Walker” by the Kentucky Headhunters. Apparently, the listener thought the lyric was “lets all go, down to do Miss Walker.”

Country singers often sing about sex, but that one listener was not ready for a song about an orgy.

I just realized last week that I’ve been butchering one line in Phil Vassar’s “Love is a Beautiful Thing”. It’s a pretty dumb line to mess up because it’s so obvious… but everytime I hear the chorus of the song, I hear:

Throw the rice in the air
Let the church bells ring
Tie the KIDS to the back of that limosine

Of course, the real song is “cans”, not “kids”, and when I finally thought about what I kept hearing, I felt pretty stupid.

While DJing at the local club many years ago, I had a gal once ask for me Shania’s lyrics for Man I Feel Like A Woman – she told me her boyfriend was convinced that she was singing “Cum in my hair, do what I dare”. Seriously. I always thought (in that same song), she was singing “Rearrange my boys” instead of “really raise my voice”

sorry if you were offended Kelly; it honestly happened and was funny enough that I thought it deserved sharing….apparenlty not for some.

I was just playin’ around. Also, the Gobblers Knob title isnt referring to what you are referring to, just so you know (not that there’s anythign wrong with that).

Going back a few years to John Anderson’s “Seminole Wind” – In the chorus when he sings “Blow, blow, Seminole Wind” My sister nearly wrecked her car when she heard my 10 year old niece singing along loudly with “Blow, blow, seven old men”!!

One I still mis-hear to this day. Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffet in “5 o’clock Somewhere” When Alan says “Keep it between the bouyies” I hear “between the boobies”

my sister thought in mountains by lonestar, they said “but the Good Lord gave us smiling time, so we can learn how to climb” instead of “but the Good Lord gave us mountains so we can learn how to climb.

she also thought in all american girl she said “Devona tell me what” like Devona was a name instead of “be honest tell me what you want”