Misheard Song Lyrics -> Stories -> Rod Stewart
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This page contains a list of the songs that have stories about their misheard lyrics submitted.
Song names are sorted by first letter, excluding A and The. This is sorted by song title only, not by song title and performer. So if two different performers preformed the same song, you'll see misheard lyrics for both on the same page (provided the song title was spelt the same both times, and misheard lyrics have been submitted for both!).
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Rod Stewart's, "First Cut Is The Deepest"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Those curlers are cheapest
The Real Lyrics:
First cut is the deepest
The Story: This makes it particularly ironic. My mum was working in a hair dressing salon when this song was playing in the background. The lady who's hair my mum was cutting pointed out what she thought the lyrics were!! - Submitted by: Darren Crisp
Rod Stewart's, "Forever Young"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Build a stairway to Heaven
With a price or a bag of gold.
With a price or a bag of gold.
The Real Lyrics:
Build a stairway to Heaven
With a prince or a vagabond.
With a prince or a vagabond.
The Story: I thought the 'bag of gold' line actually made sense; that is, until I looked up the real lyrics just a few minutes ago after hearing the song on the radio. - Submitted by: Genevieve
Rod Stewart's, "Have I Told You Lately?"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Have I told you lately that you're my hero?
The Real Lyrics:
Have I told you lately that I love you?
The Story: My boyfriend was absently singing these words under his breath when this song was on in the car. I asked him what he was singing, and he replied, 'well that's what it sounds like.' I explained to him that he was probably mixing this song up with 'Wind Beneath My Wings' by Bette Midler. He proceeded to sing that song wrong. But that's another story... - Submitted by: Frann
Rod Stewart's, "Hot Legs"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Smack Dab
wearin' me out
Smack Dab
make you scream and shout!
wearin' me out
Smack Dab
make you scream and shout!
The Real Lyrics:
Hot Legs
wearin' me out
Hot Legs
make you scream and shout!
wearin' me out
Hot Legs
make you scream and shout!
The Story: I bought this CD to enjoy music from the good old days when my mother, trying to be hip, ruined the entire song...FOREVER! I must admit, we've all had a great laugh over this incident and we will NEVER let her live it down! - Submitted by: Mica Williamson
Rod Stewart's, "Maggie Mae"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Sit in my daddy's pew, and make a living out of praying fools.
The Real Lyrics:
Steal my daddy's cue, and make a living out of playing pool.
The Story: One of our best friends (Margaret Porter) sang these lyrics the other day while out on our boat (enjoying the beach and cold beer). She thought Rod was alluding to a preacher's child who sits in the front row of church, and watches her father preach to a naive flock. After she belted them lyrics out in front of my wife, her husband, and me, we were relentless with our ridicule. It ruined her otherwise beautiful day (bruised her ego). She's 51 and old enough to have figured the lyrics out by now! - Submitted by: Bill Lejeune
Rod Stewart's, "Maggie May"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Take my daddy's cue and make a living out of playing fool.
The Real Lyrics:
Take my daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool.
The Story: It made sense to me. Take Dad's cue by doing the same thing he's been doing all these years--until I just happened to notice one day while listening to the song that he says pool, not fool, which changes the whole meaning of the word 'cue'. - Submitted by: Weird Bob Schnautz
Rod Stewart's, "Some Guys Have All The Luck"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I call you up, 'Give me sex'
You have nothing to say.
You have nothing to say.
The Real Lyrics:
I called you collect, you didn't accept
You had nothing to say.
You had nothing to say.
The Story: I thought that he was calling his girlfriend up collect to ask for sex, and she just went silent and hung up. My husband heard me and corrected me. He laughed pretty hard. I swear that's what he is singing. - Submitted by: Lia C
Rod Stewart's, "The Motown Song"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Pretty woman son and you're almost out of records.
The Real Lyrics:
Bring over some of your old Motown records.
The Story: My sister amanda has a habit of singing the wrong lyrics, and this is just one of many examples. - Submitted by: Allison
Rod Stewart's, "Tonight's The Night"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Spread your legs and let me come inside.
The Real Lyrics:
Spread your wings and let me come inside
The Story: The first couple of times I heard the song I was sure he said 'legs', not 'wings' When you consider he is trying to seduce this 'virgin child', it does really make a lot of sense! I was just kind of surprised that radio stations would play such a raunchy line in those more conservative times. - Submitted by: Jerry
Rod Stewart's, "You're In My Heart"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You're cuter than elephants.
The Real Lyrics:
You're beauty and elegance
The Story: I sang this song with the car radio for 20 years before I heard it the correct way. - Submitted by: Susan Antonsen
Rod Stewart's, "You're in my Heart"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You're an essay in glamour
Please, pardon me 'grandma'.
Please, pardon me 'grandma'.
The Real Lyrics:
You're an essay in glamour
Please, pardon my grammar.
Please, pardon my grammar.
The Story: My ex-husband and I were newly married and hanging out one morning in bed listening to Rod on the stereo. Julio threw his head back and very convincingly bellowed out 'pardon me grandma'. I couldn't breathe for the next 5 minutes and it still makes me laugh almost twenty years later! - Submitted by: Janet Getter
Rod Stewart's, "Young Turks"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Your farts may freeze tonight.
The Real Lyrics:
Young hearts be free tonight.
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