Wrong: "You're Alice in Wonderland"
Right: "Your body is a wonderland"
-- John Mayer's "Your Body Is a Wonderland"
Wrong: "Step my feet in tar"
Right: "Be still my beating heart"
-- Sting's "Be Still My Beating Heart"
Wrong: "I only have ice for you"
Right: "I only have eyes for you"
-- Various artists, "I Only Have Eyes For You"
Wrong: "An old Russian road song"
Right: "An old-fashioned love song"
-- Three Dog Night's "An Old Fashioned Love Song"
Wrong: "I am the eye in the sky/ ookie-noochie"
Right: "I am the eye in the sky/ Looking at you"
-- The Alan Parsons Project's "Eye in the Sky"
Wrong: "Every time you go away/ You take a piece of meat with you"
Right: "Every time you go away/ You take a piece of me with you"
-- Paul Young's "Everytime You Go Away"
Wrong: "Ham on rye/ don't nobody worry 'bout me"
Right: "I'm alright/ don't nobody worry bout me"
-- Kenny Loggins' "I'm Alright"
Wrong: "Hold me close I'm tired of dancing"
Right: "Hold me closer tiny dancer"
-- Elton John's "Tiny Dancer"
Wrong: "Second-hand chili dogs outside the Tastee Freeze"
Right: "Suckin' on chili dogs outside the Tastee Freeze"
-- John Mellencamp's "Jack and Diane"
Wrong: "Feel your love tonight"
Right: "Little Red Corvette"
-- Prince's "Little Red Corvette"
Wrong: "You're just a bumble bee, baby"
Right: "You dropped a bomb on me, baby"
-- The Gap Band's "You Dropped a Bomb on Me"
Wrong: "Oh, darlin', I would fly to Mexico"
Right: "Oh, darlin', I was blind to let you go"
-- The Jackson Five's "I Want You Back"
Wrong: "I wanna rock and roll all nite and part of every day"
Right: "I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day"
-- Kiss' "Rock and Roll All Nite"
Wrong: "Hooray for that Chrysler"
Right: "Paperback writer"
-- The Beatles' "Paperback Writer"
Wrong: "Gotta boom boom in your eye"
Right: "Gotta blue moon in your eyes"
-- A3's "Woke up This Morning," a k a "The Sopranos" theme song
Wrong: "... You're my kanooki..."
Right: "... You're like a new key ..."
-- Martina McBride's "If I Had Your Name"
Wrong: "Grover's in the yard"
Right: "Groove is in the heart"
-- Deee-Lite's "Groove Is in the Heart"
Wrong: "And I know what it means to walk alone when it is only three degrees"
Right: "'Cos I know what it means/ To walk along the lonely street of dreams"
-- Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again"
Wrong: "We put milk on our cereal, girl"
Right: "We are spirits in the material world"
-- The Police's "Spirits in the Material World"
Wrong: "... Big ol' jet's got a light on"
Right: "... Big ol' jet airliner"
-- Steve Miller Band's "Jet Airliner"
Wrong: "Pretty little head wound ..."
Right: "Pretty little hairdo ..."
-- The Jayhawks' "Save It for a Rainy Day"
Children's misheard lyrics
Wrong: "... It's a small world, out you go, and they kick you out."
Right: "... It's a small world after all, it's a small, small world."
-- Disney Chorus' "It's a Small World (After All)"
Wrong: "Cub Scout girl"
Right: "Uptown Girl"
-- Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl"
Wrong: "Christ the loyal pasture leans against the phone"
Right: "Christ the royal Master leads against the foe"
-- Various artists, "Onward Christian Soldiers"
Wrong: "Just brush my teeth before you leave me ..."
Right: "Just touch my cheek before you leave me ..."
-- Juice Newton's "Angel of the Morning"
Source: PG readers