When vocabulary fails, hilarity prevails.

Sometimes kids say the darndest things. I was at a family function recently and overheard a 5-year-old boy sing some hilarious lyrics.

The Doors "Hello I Love You"

Now you would think the word "Hello" doesn't leave room for mistakes, but his version turned into:
Phillip Phillip I love you
Won't you tell me your name


AC/DC "Dirty Deeds"

Hey even if you play songs with inappropriate content, the kids won't hear it.
"Done Dirt Cheap"? Nope, he sang:
Mon-ster feet


Only kids could interpret songs this way.

In elementary school, during assembly, us kids would sing that song from the Coca Cola commercial "I like to teach the world to sing" (in perfect harmony....). There's the part that goes, and furnish it with love.... Well, we really got a kick out of singing, "and furnish sh*t with love!"

I the 70s.

this is a canadian band that was popular in the early 80's...

i was trying to be cool around my older sisters - the correct lyric go like this...

"Raise a little hell , raise a little hell, raise a little hell!

If you dont like what you got, why dont you change it?
If your world is all screwed up, then rearrange it?"

my sisters burst out laughing when i sang

"Raise a luau, raise a luau, raise a luau!"

Sung by myself when I was 5:

I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
Jokin', sire.


I have no idea how that was even derived.

CinisterCee said:

I've heard kids singing Venus but a little bit different:

"I'm your penis! I'm your fire, your desire!"

I remember growing up hearing Sly somewhere and going:

"I wanna spank you for wettin' me fix my shelf-again"

Now, I know better, but ah, memories.

emm said:

Question is: how old were you when you did that?

I used to wonder what "animal's strykuris poses" were

andyman91 said:

I was working at a record store when No Diggity was out by Blackstreet. One day this little girl asked where she could find the single. She looked about 9 years old and she said... "Do you have that song that goes:
I like the way you work here?"

I smiled and showed her where the single was. I hope the lyrics were in there.

J0eyC0c0 said:

i think about 7 or 8... you can tell i was mortified by the fact that i remember it all these years later!

In the song "Fame" by David Bowie the lyrics go "Is it any wonder I reject you first"

In school they would say, "Is it any wonder I reject... your breath."

Other lyrics in the song go "Bully for you. Chilly for me. I gotta get a raincheck on pain."

From the basketball courts they would sing: "B**ty for you. Pu**y for me....."

VinaBlue said:

"I like the way you work here,
I got to bag it up."

Hey, that kinda makes sense!

VoicesCarry said:

Yeah, either they work at a drive-thru or the grocery store! Can you just see a Burger King commercial (or McDonalds) with the uniforms and hats, groovin to the song? The customers walking away with their happy meals, dancing...

And sometimes adults say some stupid things, too. For years, I thought the lyric to Uptown Girl by Billy Joel - a terrible song to begin with - were:

As long as anyone with hot fudge hands
And now she's lookin' for a downtown man

Didn't feel so bad when I found out my neighbor thought the same thing. Mind you, I was 19-years-old when I finally knew the real lyrics.

VinaBlue said:

OMG :crying:

my dad was a huge CCR fan and i always thought the words to Bad Moon On the Rise were

" ohhh...theres a bathroom on the right..."
it never occured to me why they always wanted me to perform and then laughed their asses off.

You know the Pina Colada song? Well, I always used to think the the lyrics were: "If you like peein' in the closet....and getting caught in the rain...."

I didn't find out until like last year that that was wrong.

minneapolisgenius said:

"If you like peein' in the closet...and getting caught in the rain...

If you like kickin' slugs at midnight, if you're on novocaine...

...Come with me and eat paste!"

subhuman09 said:

When my friend was a kid he thought that Kool & the Gang's "Too Hot" was... "it's 2 o'clock (2 o'clock), 2 o'clock, baby".... Damn, that shit was so funny when he first told me. It's still a good laugh every now and then!

When I first heard "Controversy" , I was riding in the car and every time Prince said "Controversy" I thought he was saying "catch a P--sy". I have no idea WTF was up with that! Maybe the volume was too low or somethin'. Anyways, that's when "P" first caught my attention. I was about 9.
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minneapolisgenius said:

Fuck its Rupert Holmes...remember that follow up he did called "Him" lol

AsianConnection said:

I have read that some thought Prince was saying 'Count you blessings' instead of 'Controversy'

In 'Papa Was A Rolling Stone' my daughter that they were saying 'where ever he laid his happen was home' instead of 'whereever he laid his hat was his home.'

Also, some people thought they were saying 'And when he died...all he left us was a LOAN' instead of 'ALONE.'

reminds me of that Art Linkletter show that Bill Cosby revived. "Kids Say The Stupidest Shit" ... or something like that.