I used to believe that the Rolling Stones lyrics 'don't wanna be your beast of burden' said 'did'ja ever feel your keester burning?'
Also the Beach Boys version of the Dylan song 'Why Babe?' used to sound an awful lot like 'wild ape'...still does actually!

I'm pretty sure (in Blinded by the Light) it's 'racked up like a deuce' which makes sense - it's a gambling term.

Sadly, the entire theme song from the old brit sitcom Red Dwarf is one big misheard lyric!

A friend of mine plays in a group that provides music for all sorts of social occasions. Often, people from the audience come up to sing a song whilst the group backs them.

Some lyrics have been variously misconstrued and mangled so that:

Roy Orbison's song 'In Dreams' begins

'A candy coloured clown they call the sand-man'

but this was scrambled into

'I'm the kind of man who brings the sand in.'!

Charley Pride's
'the marble statuettes are standing stately in the hall' became

'the marbles that you ate'

And a song Pretty Brown Eyes' should have said

'You can hide all your feelings until he passes by'

and ended up

You can hide on your ceiling until he passes by'.

My musician friend has many, many other misheard lyrics like these.

One that had me laughing for days, was one by Richard and Judy's daughter. Richard and Judy are a married couple who present a morning TV show here in the UK.

She misheard Take That's "I Want You Back For Good" as

"I'll wash your back for good"

"I'll wash your back, I'll wash your back, I'll wash your back for good!"
*giggles*

I've always thought that the song "when the going gets tough" sounds a lot like "would you go and get stuffed! lmao

Add another mess-up to "Glorified G", I thought it was "Forty fine virgins and a pelican".

And, on Buffet's "Why Don't We Get Drunk", I thought that the part in the chorus where he sings "They say you are a snuff queen, honey I don't think that's true" was "They say you are a snow queen..."and even argued about it with a buddy of mine who's a major Buffet fan.

In the Robbie Williams song "Old Before I Die" there is a line that says: "Am I straight or gay"
I used to think it was "on Australia Day" (actually I still catch myself singing that sometimes).

My kids are great at misheard lyrics. Clare used to sing wa-wa washing machine for 'Rasputin' - Boney M. Had me scurrying through my tapes for her favourite song, 'Old guts and meddery' - this turned out to be 'All I've gots a memory'from 'Wanted' by The Dooleys.

The line from She Loves You is

"Pride can hurt you too -- Apologize to her"

Makes a little more sense, ya think?

How about "Jocky Wilson Said" instead of "Jackie Wilson Said" . It's funny if you know who Jocky Wilson was. I'm not telling, but maybe one of you Brits knows.

'Suddenly I see' by KT Tunstall. I at first thought the song was about a seaside town called, 'Leigh-on-Sea' (so Leigh-on-Sea).

When I was a child in Sunday School, I loved singing that grand, old hymn, "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God a nightie." I imagined the garment as white and voluminous, rather like that worn by Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol."

When I was a kid I used to think the Police were singing "I'm a pool hall ace" instead of "how my poor heart aches" in "Every Breath You Take"!

That's pretty bad, but at least I knew that "Paradise By the Dashboard Lights" was the name of a song, unlike my best friend who thought it was "Paradise" sung by The Dashboard Lights! (not misheard, just misinterpreted)

My big sister was in college when "Jack and Diane" became a huge hit. Around that same time, she brought home her new boyfriend -- later her husband -- to meet the family. The boyfriend hailed from the small town of Waukon, Iowa.

For years after, I was convinced that John Cougar (Mellencamp) was lamenting a time "long after the thrill of livin' had gone to Waukon".

If you've never been to northeast Iowa, let me assure you: the thrill of living is NOT there! (Maybe it has since packed up and left town, again.)

That song that says 'I always feel like somebody's watching me' - my partner thought it was saying 'I want a speedboat, somebody's watching me'. He claims his version makes more sense. Hmmm...

I suspect this is a common one.
From Bostons More than a Feeling.
"I see my derriere (sp?) walking away" instead of "I see my Mary-Anne walking away"
I also remember a playground discussion in Primary school regarding John Mellencamp's Hurt so Good. The lyric is "sink your teeth right through my bones"
We were convinced it was "sink your teeth right through my b*lls"

Well this one is not really a song, but a commercial jingle, and it wasn't really misheard, but rather misunderstood, but since I was thinking about it this morning, I'll put it here anyway.

When I was very young, there was a TV commercial where a goup of young people ran along a beach towards one of those old big ice chest type coolers that you used to buy soft drinks from. In the background, voices were singing "It's the Pepsi Generation", so, I, naturally, assumed that "generation" was the word for the big cooler that they all seemed so interested in. No problem, until the next time I was at the store with my mom, and asked her if I could get myself a pop from the 'generation'. Still would have been no problem, except that my brother heard this, and has never let me forget it.