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Misunderstood Lyrics: 38 Funny Things You Didn’t Really Hear
Udiscovermusic ^ | August 11, 2025

Posted on 08/12/2025 5:46:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway
Bee Gees: More Than A Woman

Misheard lyric: “Bald headed woman”

I remember back in the '70s whenever KFI Los Angeles air personalities Lohman and Barkley played that Bee Gees song they always said "Bald Headed Woman."

41 posted on 08/12/2025 7:46:09 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: nickcarraway

Save me
Oh save me
It’s a real submarine

-ELO (Showdown)

The real lyric is “it’s unreal, the suffering”, but Jeff Lynne started singing “it’s a real submarine” live.


42 posted on 08/12/2025 7:48:23 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

My personal favorite:

Hold me closer Tony Danza.

Instead of:

Hold me closer Tony Dancer


43 posted on 08/12/2025 7:48:59 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Darn autocorrect

I meant to write

Hold me closer Tiny Dancer


44 posted on 08/12/2025 7:50:46 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: nickcarraway

The Chad is not my son

(Billie Jean, by Michael Jackson)


45 posted on 08/12/2025 7:52:24 PM PDT by LilFarmer (Isaiah 54:17)
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To: nickcarraway
Toto – Africa

Actual lyric: “There’s nothin’ that a hundred men or more could ever do.”

Does that include beating a gorilla?

46 posted on 08/12/2025 7:59:19 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (I refuse to call the left "progressive" because I do not see slavery to the government as progress.)
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To: nickcarraway

Hendrix - Purple Haze - “’Scuse me while I kiss dis guy”


47 posted on 08/12/2025 8:07:06 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: wbarmy
Honestly, it was several years before i learned it was not “Secret Asian Man” but “Secret Agent Man”.

I about died laughing when I watched the Jackie Chan movie "The Spy Next Door,"(2010) and THAT was the song they played over the closing credits. I thought, no way is that coincidence!

48 posted on 08/12/2025 8:23:23 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Hoopi had some talent in her early years.


49 posted on 08/12/2025 8:24:22 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: nickcarraway

Surely the Wallflowers’ hit “One Headlight” was inspired by Steve Miller Band classic tune telling us that “Big old Jed had a light out…”


50 posted on 08/12/2025 8:33:33 PM PDT by philled (I’m free to say whatever I - Whatever I like— if it’s wrong or right it’s alright.)
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To: KarlInOhio

I always hear it as ...
I left my brains down in Africa...


51 posted on 08/12/2025 8:41:08 PM PDT by tet68 ("We would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship to die with us." Henry V.)
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To: nickcarraway

Most Led Zepplin songs sounded like gibberish.


52 posted on 08/12/2025 8:55:41 PM PDT by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Gladly, the cross-eyed bear...?


53 posted on 08/12/2025 9:06:15 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: woodbutcher1963

LOL...I was just going to ding you on “Tony Dancer”!


54 posted on 08/12/2025 9:07:05 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: nickcarraway
Most of these are a huge stretch.

This one is real: “Life would be ecstasy, you and me and Leslie/Groovin’ on a Sunday afternoon”

In the Willie Nelson song "On the Road Again," I always thought the line "The life I love is making music with my friends" was "The wife I love is making music with my friends", which gives the song a very different meaning.

"Ventura Highway" (1972) by the band America has a line "alligator lizards in the air", that I always thought really must be something else, but those are the real lyrics.

55 posted on 08/12/2025 9:29:13 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: rlmorel

Heh! I have now added that site to my favorites.

‘Scuse me, while I kiss this guy.


56 posted on 08/12/2025 9:37:36 PM PDT by Allegra (Thank you for your attention to this matter. )
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To: nickcarraway
Elton John - Bennie And The Jets (Official Music Video)

"She has electric boots A mohair suit." For years, I kept hearing "She has electric boobs I know it's true."

57 posted on 08/13/2025 2:56:30 AM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Democrat cult.)
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To: nickcarraway

Steve Miller’s:

“Bingo Jed had a light on”


58 posted on 08/13/2025 3:04:51 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: grey_whiskers

That one, too!

When my cousin and I were bored in church we’d re-write titles.


59 posted on 08/13/2025 4:06:27 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: nickcarraway

For a few years, I thought “Reach out in the Darkness” was, “Freak out in the Garden” - ahh, the 60s.....


60 posted on 08/13/2025 5:39:35 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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