[NSFW -- Possibly] Who wants to play familiar songs with lyrical wrongs?

@ETpro Can you maybe give an example (for this simple soul)?

There is a whole book about that.
The title tells the tale- Scuse Me While I Kiss this Guy (Purple Haze)
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/scuse-me-while-i-kiss-this-guy-gavin-edwards/1000384619

But one I always sort of liked was the Dixie Chicks – Wide Open Spaces
The lyric is
“She needs wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
She needs new faces
She knows the high stakes”

I told my sons the line was “She goes to ‘Hio State” (Ohio State)

Best misinterpreted lyrics ever.

From Creedance Clearwater Revival:

There’s a bathroom on the right.”

Do you ever feel… Like a plastic bag… Drifting through the wind… Getting stuck in trees?
Did I do it right?

Dang, I wish I had time to write out a reply. I thought I would be able to jump in here early. Instead, a “minor” programming job I had to do today blew up in my face. It’s still not entirely tamed, but at least at this point I am closing in on taming it. Manyana. Sorry.

@janbb is that “there’s a bad moon on the rise”? Because I used to think it said “There’s a bathroom on the right.”.... XD

OK, You’ve made me stay up and right a wrong song. This is to the tune (or toon) of All I Have To Do Is Dream

The real lyrics are here, but these are much better:

    Sche-me-me-me-mee, scheme, scheme, scheme
    Sche-me-me-me-mee, scheme, scheme, scheme
    Whenever I want you right by my side
    I re-a-lize, my butts to wide
    Whenever I see that you could never fit, I
    Sche-me-me-me-mee, scheme, scheme, scheme

    When I feel cold in the night
    And I need you to hold me tight
    When ever I want you right up by my side
    Sche-me-me-me-mee

    I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine
    Anytime night or day
    Only trouble is, gee whiz
    I’m schemein’ my life away

    I need you so that I could try
    To lose some weight, and that is why
    Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
    Sche-me-me-me-mee, scheme, scheme, scheme
    Sche-me-me-me-mee

    I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine
    Anytime night or day
    Only trouble is, gee whiz
    I’m schemein’ my life away

    I need you so that I could try
    I love you so and that is why
    Whenever I want you right by my side
    I re-a-lize, my butts to wide
    So I Sche-me-me-me-mee, scheme, scheme,

    FADE
    Sche-ea-ea-ea-eam, scheme, scheme, scheme

That’s the idea.

@AshLeigh Yup – that’s what my brother thought “there’s a bad moon on the rise” was too.

Classic one

Philadelphia Freedom by Elton John

Real lyrics: “a piece of mind my daddy never had.”

Misheard lyrics: “a piece of Mama daddy never had.”

(NSFW) John Valby made a career out of that very thing.

(NSFW) sung to – Put on a Happy Face:
Somebody needs to cheer up
Sit on a happy face
Don’t need to keep your rear up
Sit on a happy face

@AshLeigh and @janbb Ha!. Perfect.

@King_Pariah I like the mishears line better.

@blueiiznh Not THAT’s what I’m talking about. :-)