... and, sure, we can mention that a lot of 'em were in the 60s, which will tie it into the beard a tad.....

Ready to fess up and admit a song lyric actually says something totally different than what you initially believed? I fell into the classic Jimi Hendrix trap of hearing, "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy!" but a friend just recently mentioned that the Herman's Hermits, "A Must To Avoid" always sounded to him like, "She's a muscular boy"!

Anyone have one to add to the list?

"beard" = "board"

... must... have... more... coffee.....

I’ve been mishearing lyrics my whole life Dough. I couldn’t come up with any examples except I knew there was a song with the line “at your desire” which I heard as “it’s Jordan sire.” I think I also heard "I'm your fetus" for "I'm your Venus". I did a little Internet research and this turns out to be the song “Venus”, possibly by Bananarama (there are other versions). Isn’t this song used in a TV commercial? Much more interesting is the fact that there is a web site devoted to misheard lyrics:

http://www.amiright.com/misheard

I guess no one should be surprised by that.

Jimmy

The original Venus was done by a Dutch group named "Shocking Blue" None of the group spoke english, they learned phonetic pronunciations of the lyrics, which, no doubt,is why they sound unusual. The rest of the album was pretty bad, but the cover art of the lead singer was very nice.

"For Reverend Blue Jeans?"

I've been mishearing songs for years. Some obvious, some I have no idea where they came from.
CCR's Bad Moon Rising - I thought it was, "There's the bathroom on the right."
Stones' Beast of Burden - I heard, "I don't want to be your pizza burning."
My all time favorite was Cream's Badge. For years I thought Mumbles Clapton was singing, "I told you 'bout our kid now he's not a tomato." When I got it on CD (after it was remastered)I realized the line is, "I told you 'bout our kid now he's married to Mabel." I'm still partial to the tomato bit.

Now that I am trying to write them down, I am drawing blanks. My trick brain must have fallen out of my head and onto the floor.