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Al Stewart's, "Broadway Hotel"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Miss Donna Summers' day
The Real Lyrics:
Mist on a summer's day
The Story: Since the song was on the flip side of the "Year of the Cat" 45, I didn't have access to the lyrics printed inside the album for many months after first buying the single. Until I finally bought the album, I couldn't imagine the lyric being anything other than what I misheard. Yet, I was mystified by what the rising-star-disco-queen was doing in an Al Stewart song about sexual dysfunction. - Submitted by: Luca Grella
Al Stewart's, "Like a Song on the Radio"
The Misheard Lyrics:
But then on the wings of emotion we suckle each other in flight, tucked together we run like the ocean in its bed at night.
The Real Lyrics:
But then on the wings of emotion we circle each other in flight, tucked together we run like the ocean in its bed at night.
The Story: This song came out in the 1970s when I was about 7 or 8 years old. I honestly thought he was singing the word "suckle" and couldn't understand what those lyrics meant. It wasn't until years later when I was an adult I finally figured out it was "circle" instead and it finally made a lot more sense. LOL. - Submitted by: Edward
Al Stewart's, "The Year Of The Cat"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Pizza Larry contemplating a crime
The Real Lyrics:
Peter Lorre contemplating a crime
The Story: I told my husband I never understood why Pizza Larry was contemplating a crime. He laughed so hard, he could barely explain that it was 'Peter Lorre'. I didn't know who Peter Lorre was. - Submitted by: Tammy Priborsky
Al Stewart's, "The Year Of The Cat"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The air of a kind
The Real Lyrics:
The year of the cat
The Story: In the seventies, our family's music equipment was not great. - Submitted by: Bassace
Al Stewart's, "The Year of the Cat"
The Misheard Lyrics:
...and the rhythm of the new Fontaine
The Real Lyrics:
...and the rhythm of the new-found day
The Story: I just assumed that someone named Fontaine had a new hit song. - Submitted by: Crossfire905
Al Stewart's, "The Year of the Cat"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Innocent Tanya, bound to leave her
The Real Lyrics:
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
The Story: I misheard these lyrics for YEARS, until I finally figured out what they really were. - Submitted by: Mike Drum
Al Stewart's, "The Year of the Cat"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You go strolling through the crowd like Pete Tolare
The Real Lyrics:
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
The Story: I never did figure out who "Pete Tolare" was! - Submitted by: Crossfire905
Al Stewart's, "Time Passages"
The Misheard Lyrics:
A girl comes to want you
And wants you's to know
And wants you's to know
The Real Lyrics:
A girl comes toward you
You once used to know
You once used to know
The Story: I've been singing these incorrect lyrics for the past 37 years, never realizing until recently how far off I've been to the correct lyrics. LOL. - Submitted by: Ron
Al Stewart's, "Year of the Cat"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And the first senator's De Gaulle
The Real Lyrics:
And the bus and the tourists are gone
The Story: I was a kid. I was stupid. As an adult, I realized I must have it wrong but I never found out what it really was until now. - Submitted by: Steve
Al Stewart's, "Year of the Cat"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And the first summer tourists are gone
The Real Lyrics:
And the bus and the tourists are gone
The Story: Actually performed this wrong for years - Submitted by: Price
Al Stewart's, "Year of the Cat"
The Misheard Lyrics:
In the yell of the cat
The Real Lyrics:
In the year of the cat
The Story: If a cat would yell, they would meow regardless. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Al Stewart's, "Year of the Cat"
The Misheard Lyrics:
She comes incensed and petulantly
The Real Lyrics:
She comes in incense and patchouli
The Story: This was in writing, as the subtitles of a DVD karaoke of the song, Year of the Cat - Submitted by: Deborah Solomon
Al Stewart's, "Year of the Cat"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The year of the cap
The Real Lyrics:
The year of the cat
The Story: I always wondered about putting caps on bottles - hence why I would hear it that way. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Al Stewart's, "Year of the Cat"
The Misheard Lyrics:
There's a yenta she leads you to
The Real Lyrics:
There's a hidden door she leads you to
The Story: I thought maybe that was a reference to Fiddler On The Roof. - Submitted by: Hu's On First
Al Stewart's, "Year of the Cat"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You go strolling through the crowd like a pizza roll
The Real Lyrics:
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
The Story: This song and the album came out when I was 12-years old and had entered junior high school just the fall before. At the time Totino's, the pizza company had just come out with their pizza rolls and I use to love eating them -- especially on a Friday night when nobody wanted to really cook much. Well when I heard this song originally and for a quite a number of years I thought Al Stewart must have loved the Totino's pizza rolls as well. Although I couldn't see why someone would want stroll the crowd like a pizza roll? Until I got to high school, in 1978 - 79, and I started singing this line as I misheard it in a car with a bunch of my friends when one of my classmates were taking me and my year older brother home. Let's just say everyone had a good laugh at my expense! - Submitted by: Peter
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