Friday Night is Music Night: Misheard Lyrics

[Chris S]

A TV ad was based on this, "My ear's alright."

View: https://youtu.be/mxtfdH3-TQ4

 

[Chris S]

"I wanna be a polar bear ..."

View: https://youtu.be/pOH-sojmLJY

 

[chriswoody]

There must be an Angel by the Eurthymics.

I'm pretty certain the first lines are:

"No-one on earth could feel like this I'm thrown and overgrown with fleas."

View: https://youtu.be/RCdneDxFRYQ

 

[DRM]

View: https://youtu.be/zpzdgmqIHOQ


This is full of them
Last night I dreamed of some bagels

young girl with eyes like potatoes

drop a goolie I will see

 

[glasgowcyclist]

A TV ad was based on this, "My ear's alright."

View: https://youtu.be/mxtfdH3-TQ4

Wasn’t it “ My ears are alight”?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxELSzay2lc

 

[cyberknight]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW8WC80fMOM&ab_channel=WrongAccount

 

[tyred]

Charley Pride was always very popular here when I was young.

I used to think that the line "The marble statuettes are standing safely in the hall" was "The marbles that you ate are standing safely in the hall"

 

[tyred]

Another country one from my youth - "you picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hundred children...."

 

[Chris S]

Wasn’t it “ My ears are alight”?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxELSzay2lc

That was in the days when cassettes were used to record music and not change gears on a bike.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I always heard it as "Cold steel loader <something, something, something> connect".

 

[Chris S]

Our father who art in heaven
Harold be thy name

 

[accountantpete]

Courtesy of some cheap radios in my student days I always thought that the singer in Depeche Mode was having trouble erecting a tent as he "just can't seem to get it up"

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhIWuZnagkU

 

[Smokin Joe]

"I see a red dog and I want it painted black"

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niCG-LDrN9Q

 

[Bazzer]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjwWjx7Cw8I

Excuse me while I kiss the sky
'Scuse me while I kiss this guy

 

[sheddy]

gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight - take me to the doctors at the break of the day

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgu_0g0ztT4