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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!).
The Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits: The Record album at Amazon.com
The Bee Gees', "How Deep Is Your Love?"
The Misheard Lyrics:
When they're all Les Battersby
The Real Lyrics:
When they all should let us be
The Story: These are the words my buddy, Kimmos, sings to annoy his wife. For non Brits, Les Battersby is a character in 'Coronation Street', our most watched soap. - Submitted by: Buttsee
The Bee Gees', "How Deep Is Your Love"
The Misheard Lyrics:
'Cause we're livin in a world of food
Breaking it down.
Breaking it down.
The Real Lyrics:
'Cause we're livin' in a world of fools
Breaking us down.
Breaking us down.
The Story: I was just a kid with an album thinkin' about food, apparently. - Submitted by: Lisa L3 Lislangsta
The Bee Gees', "More Than A Woman"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Bald headed woman to me
The Real Lyrics:
More than a woman to me
The Story: I would listen to my "Saturday Night Fever" album and turn up really loud. My mother would yell for me to turn that "bald headed woman" song down! - Submitted by: L Song
The Bee Gees', "More Than A Woman"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Bald-headed woman
The Real Lyrics:
More than a woman
The Story: I was sure these were the words (I think I was about 11), until I sang it at my friend's birthday party and her dad burst out laughing. - Submitted by: Lannie
The Bee Gees', "More Than a Woman"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Four-letter woman
The Real Lyrics:
More than a woman
The Story: C'mon, it's falsetto heard on AM radio at the time. I was amazed the station was even playing such a "dirty song!" From that moment on, that's how I heard it until I was singing along somewhere in the early 21st century and a friend commented, "That's just rude." I replied, "I know. I can't believe they got away with that." Then the conversation got a little confusing for me until I figured out I had been mishearing the lyrics for the last 30+ years! - Submitted by: Edward
The Bee Gees', "More Then A Woman"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Bald headed woman
The Real Lyrics:
More than a woman
The Story: My husband use to sing this song on the top of his lungs, swearing they were singing 'bald headed women'. He even had our children singing in with those words. He never believed me that the correct words were 'More than a woman'. - Submitted by: nancy
The Bee Gees', "More Then A Woman"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Four-legged woman
Four-legged woman, two knees.
Four-legged woman, two knees.
The Real Lyrics:
More than a woman
More than a woman to me.
More than a woman to me.
The Story: My friend seriously thought that these were the lyrics. I have never corrected him. It's too funny to hear him sing it. - Submitted by: Kirky
The Bee Gees', "Nights Of Broadway"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Singin' it up
On the Nights of Broadway.
On the Nights of Broadway.
The Real Lyrics:
Blaming it all
On the nights on Broadway.
On the nights on Broadway.
The Story: My Dad used to play this every night in the car for years, so I have no excuse for not deciphering the real lyrics. - Submitted by: Ed Ancoats
The Bee Gees', "Stayin' Alive"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Slayin' beehives
or
Slappin' behinds
or
Slappin' behinds
The Real Lyrics:
Stayin' alive
The Story: I was at Johnny Rocket's, drinking a milkshake, when I heard this song. I laughd so hard, milkshake came out my nose. Everyone was looking at me funny. When my dad asked me what happened, I told him, and he told me the actual lyrics. - Submitted by: Brianna
The Bee Gees', "Stayin' Alive"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Stay in the lines.
The Real Lyrics:
Stayin' alive.
The Story: Well, keep in mind that I wasn't born when this song came out, so I had no idea. I went on, until I was around 12, thinking the whole song was something about coloring inside the lines. My father still cracks up every time he thinks of this song. - Submitted by: Cate
The Bee Gees', "Stayin' Alive"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Stayin' the night, staying the night
or
Seventy-five, seventy-five
or
Seventy-five, seventy-five
The Real Lyrics:
Stayin' alive, stayin' alive
The Story: My friend and I were about nine and ten, and watching the Goof Troop movie when this song came on in the background. I thought that it said 'Stayin' the night,' she thought it said 'Seventy-five,' and we missed the remainder of the movie arguing about it. We sacrificed our pride and asked my mom, who informed me that we were both wrong. Embarassing! - Submitted by: Anastasia Jade
The Bee Gees', "Stayin' Alive"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Sting 'em alive
The Real Lyrics:
Stayin' alive
The Story: This is what my friend's little brother used to sing when he was about 5 years old. I still crack up every time I think about it. He gets rather embarrassed when you mention it to him now though. - Submitted by: Sharyn
The Bee Gees', "Stayin' Alive"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Tube steak chicken and everybody's shakin' it.
The Real Lyrics:
Feel the city breakin' and ev'rybody shakin'.
The Story: As a child, I thought these were the words. I was probably also hungry. - Submitted by: Lisa L3 Lislangsta
The Bee Gees', "Too Much Heaven"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Oh you a n*****
Got a lot of stuff in store.
Got a lot of stuff in store.
The Real Lyrics:
Oh you and me girl
Got a lot of love in store.
Got a lot of love in store.
The Story: When I first heard this I thought, 'They can't be saying what I think they are saying.' I played that part of the song over and over and over on my tape deck. I finally had to buy a song book to find out what the real lyrics were. - Submitted by: Linda
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