Let's face it, half the time it can be very hard to figure out what's actually being said in a song (just look at the popularity of lyrics sites). This effect seems to be even worse on children, with less experience with the language. As a result, we (well, at least I!) always would always sing terribly wrong lyrics to songs when I was young.

Here are some examples:
-- AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long" - When the title is sung, I thought they said "Yeah, she'll be all right now"
-- Queen's "Killer Queen" - Used to butcher this one...rather than "She's a killer queen / gunpowder, gelatine / dynamite with a laser beam" I'd say "Squeezed in the Netherlands / baptised in the Netherlands"
-- Styx's "Mr. Roboto" - I wasn't too familiar with Japanese, so rather than "Doumo arigatou Mr. Roboto, doumo, doumo" I thought it was "No more egato Mr. Roboto! No more! No more!"

These were acquired probably from birth-6 or so, but obviously I couldn't pin it down. In any case, those are the only ones I remember for the time being, but I'd like to hear some of everybody else's.

The saftey dance-> "Everyone look at your hands". I still think there saying "Everyone look down at your pants".

In the Rush song Freewill, I always thought it said "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

But I read the lyric sheet and found out that it said "If you still choose not to decide, you cannot have made a choice." What a blunder.

In one Red Hot Chili Peppers there was a line that was Wake up Venus and I thought Venus was something completely different which I can't say.

Also IN Dumb BY Nirvana They said I think I'm dumb. And i thought it was African Dough

On many occasions I've sung the wrong lyrics to a song as my sisters had kindly (or not so kindly) pointed or as I had found out after checking out a lyrics website. Usually they were silly mistakes for parts of songs that were just difficult to understand. For example, I would sing "It's a green light" as opposed to "It's a free ride" in Alanis Morisette's Ironic.

On a slightly related note, I was never able to sing along with MMMBop until I had looked up the exact lyrics (if you would call them that) for the chorus.

There is one classic rock song that say do the funky lady , while for some reason it still sounds like like do the @#$%in lady, yeah I have a very messed up mind

Mmmm are you sure you were wrong? I thought that was what he said anyway...



Might you be thinking of Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like a Lady" ?

I thought that the lyric booklet in my CD said that, but now that I listen to it again, it does sound like "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." The lyric sheet was wrong!

At least it's not as wrong as the sheet for Caress of Steel (another Rush album)...

Dirty Deeds by AC/DC
It took me forever to figure out that they said "DONE DIRT CHEAP" in the chorus. I could make no words out of that, just "UH ER EE"

In spite of near necromancing, I do have something to add to this.
When I was 5 or 6, I still remember one song that I totally screwed up. It was a pop song and this was around the time of 9/11, like 2001 or early 2002.
The lyrics were "Drive a funky car", but I thought it said "Drive a F****** car".
Waayyy off.
And then theres that "I'm Blue" song, where I first listened to it on Kidz Bop (What? I was like 6. Come on! Dont be judging.) and me and my best friend got into an argument with me taking out the cd case to prove him wrong. I was right. It was listed as "B...". Well, I cant remember it that well, but it was scat. To this day I question whether it was scat indeed or if my friend was right and it said "If I was green, I would die." Lolwut?
Again, we were 6.
And yes, that justifies the fact that we were waayyy off.

*Sigh* im not sure the song but its "Then he kissed me" I thought it was "Then he kicked me".