How Many Of You Have Sang A Completely Different Lyric To The One In The Song?

[Bobbisox1]

I always thought the Beautiful South sang
"don't marry her, BUT me' lol

[Kathyan]

The original was @!*#! me, but they changed it for obvious reasons!

[aelmpvw]

we used to sing 'cherry tripe' at school until the music master cottoned on ...

[maggiebee]

Two versions of the song so far as I know. "Don't marry her, have me" for the radio and the other word for "have" on the record I bought.

[agchristie]

This might be of interest Bobbi!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/8015543/REM-song-is-most-misheard.html

[douglas9401]

Possess?

[Stephen_G]

It's not just the line "Don't marry her, have (Instead of the naughty word) me" in that song. The naughty version also has the line "She'll grab your Betty Swollox (Spoonerism), Then slowly raise her knee." That then becomes "She'll grab your Sandra Bullock's, Then slowly raise her knee."

[Bobbisox1]

Thanks for the link Steve,
Yeah I realise it was adapted for listening to on the radio....much later, I was a slow learner haha

[Bobbisox1]

Oops, I meant agh for the link

[THECORBYLOON]

In New Order's "The Perfect Kiss" I always thought it had the line, "My friends, such as Bertolt Brecht" but it's "My friend took his final breath"...

[teacake44]

Ha ha, been doing it for years :) to late to put it right.

[Ken4155]

Madonna; Last night i dreamt of lumbago.
Abba; Take your teeth out and tell me what's wrong.

[zebo]

Love lifts you up, Officer and a Gentleman, I thought was The lift goes up

[4candles]

Last line of first verse of Free's All Right Now is
Let's move before they raise the parking rate.
For a long time it sounded to me like
Let's move before they raid the ******* place.

[Bobbisox1]

Haha 4 candles, I like that

[4candles]

@bobbisox
Perhaps it's just me - never seen it in any list of mondegreens.
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/mondegreen.html

[Atheist]

4candles. Let's move before they raise the *** rent.

[Old_Geezer]

I've sometimes sung the words the artiste was clearly singing, only to find out later that the lyricist had written something slightly different.

[Cloverjo]

Young girl with eyes like potatoes.

[Atheist]

I think the OP should have said "sung" not "sang".

[Mamyalynne]