Children's misheard words or song lyrics

These are so funny

In junior school I used to wonder who Mrs Murphy was and what was good about her:

Good Mrs Murphy all my days shall surely follow me

And of course in the radio Shipping forecasts, remember them, there was Good Mrs Billity and Poor Mrs Billity

I knew someone that thought a certain song went "oh a tree in motion"

Mind you, for quite a time as a youngster I thought that the Christmas Carol "God rest ye merry gentlemen" said "Let nothing you display"

Well I never! A big pizza pie not a big piece o' pie - I never knew that until this thread!
We had a lovely home-made Valan Times card from DGD1 with a heart on it!

When my brother and I buried our dead hamster, we gave him a little ceremony which included the words 'In the name of the Father, Son and in the hole he goes'

Yes that's it exactly ana

daffydil, the words to that song are actually 'When the moon hits the sky like a big pizza pie that's amore'!

I am well aware of this because I, too, always thought it was 'piece of pie' until not all that long ago...

I think they are called "mondegreens", after an old folk song, which had the line "laid him on the green" which was mis-heard as "Lady Mondegreen"

One of the old classics was of course that wonderful song by Desmond Dekker, which contains the lines "baked beans for breakfast" and "me ears are alight"

falcon and Katy you will have to explain that to me. There was a song sung by Dean Martin which started 'When the moon hits the sky like a big piece of pie that's amore'.

Falconbird - I am embarrassed to say that I sang that 'piece of pie' thing until quite recently when my DH said' what are you singing you daft bat

Back in the 50s the kids where I lived all used to sing - "When the moon hits the sky like a big piece of pie."

We'd never heard of Pizza.

DS used to sing 'get your money for nothing and your chips for free' (Dire Straits), 'knocking on Helen's door' (Bob Dylan) and 'sparing his life from his pork sausages' (Bohemian Rhapsody)

I remember, at school, a few of us would deliberately change the words to Eternal Father Strong to Save and instead of "for those in peril in the sea" it would be "for nosy Beryl's come to tea"! Unfortunately, we were rumbled by a master with a keen ear and he brought his wrath to bear on us - we had to write out the first verse a hundred times; the equivalent of six hundred lines!

When my older son was about 3, we used to play a lot of Bob Marley in the car, one song that went "get up, stand up for your rights" my son would sing with what he thought he heard "get up, don't get off your bike". A year later when learning carols at school he would refer to "little baby Jesus" as "little baby cheeses". Apparently I used to sing a hymn at my junior school with a line about Mary that went "most highly favoured lady" but I sung, for a while, before corrected "most highly flavoured gravy" Granddaughter, like a lot of 5 year old girls sings along to that awful song from Frozen, with what I imagine are all the wrong words, I have had to look them up on the internet always wondered what "salation" meant now I know it's "isolation"

My daughter when very young was a huge Abba fan, and used to dance round the house singing "super trooper beans are going to blind you".

My mum as a child thought the last line of The First Noel was "Born is the King of his grey hair".

I recall another of my children thought the Lords Prayer ended For thine is the kingdom. the cow and the glory.

My friends and I were all singing along to "Rag Doll" as we walked around the Kursaal on a day trip to Southend in the 60's. My best friend, Liz, suddenly noticed that we were all singing "When she was just a kid her clothes were hand-me-down, and not - as she was singing - hanging down.

I used to love Manhatten Transfer. DD2 (about nine at the time) tried to buy me their hit single for my birthday. Her frustration at not being able to find it was only eased when she gave the lady in the record shop a rendition of 'Chanson D'amour' which, it was gently pointed out, was not recorded by, Mad Hat and Transfer.

Also my GS1 used to shout "shiver me chimneys" (timbers). And beware of bonfires because they bite your neck!!

Not a song but when my 2yr. old GD asked her mum about the "Little Lagrey" who was purple and lived in a caravan my DD was mystified. After much thought and questioning, she realised that it was the Little Lord Jesus who was wrapped in a purple robe and was visited by a caravan (of camels).

I cannot here the song from Titanic now without hearing "I believe that the hot dogs go on".

To be fair, the European Champions League programme on TV has a chorus of men singing "The Champions". I always think it sounds as if they're singing "Lasagne". Yes, I know, in print it looks nothing like it but listen to it!

Instead of ooo Miss Grace, satin and perfume and lace, my DD would sing ooo Miss Grace tighten up the shoe man's lace and my friend's little girl, for that rumble in the jungle song which went In Zai in Zaire, would sing 'inside, inside' ere'.

These are lovely - children must think the adults around them are completely barking!

DS2 asked me to sing 'snowly roundabout'. After a few moments, I realised that he meant Good King Wenceslas - 'when the snow lay round about'.