The dirty old town thread got me thinking about misheard lyrics ...

https://youtu.be/0ukn2YT5jeM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - this is good.

But has anyone misheard lyrics at a football game?

I'll kick things off .... several years ago when I used to stand on the Bee Hole End a guy stood next to me used to sing "Goal anxious, goal anxious, goal anxious we don't care, we are burnley etc..." at the top of his voice with real passion, I never had the heart to tell him it was "no one likes us ...."

Anyone heard any others?

A guy I know had kids who used to sing 'And it snows in heaven..'

A quick nod to the late Rawtenstall claret legend Ian Taylor here for his unique version of bubbles...containing the amazing lyric..

""they fly so high..they reach the sky..
life with Stan they fade and die...""

which he roared out in the early 70's until some do-gooder pointed out his mistake


RIP Ian

We are burnley,
We are burnley ,
Sean Dyche is king.

Dear me.
I know it shouldn't, but it really bugs me.

Everybody singing "Lancashire homes" instead of "Lancashire home"

Homes implies you're talking about your bricks and mortar, home refers to us living in Lancashire (unless you don't )

Lancashire home is reference to Turf Moor, which is our home.

And not where the fans live.

Could swear a bloke in Longside near me used to shout Beef instead of beast.

The J Geils Band - "My Girlfriend Speaks in Semaphore".

The Stranglers - 'Golden Brown'. "Golden brown, texture like sun. Lays me down, with my Rancheros".

COOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEE ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN YOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU CAAAAAAAARRRRRRRROOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My eldest daughter singing along to Bob Marley' s Exodus:

"Pixie dust, moving out your people."

My lad as a little un

Come on you Carrots

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh Jezzzzzzzzzzzzzz I am deaf and o really don't know where to start .
Hey it brings a lot of fun to the wife .

Misheard lyrics are known as mondogreen. Guy sits near us gets em all wrong, makes for good entertainment usually.

On a tour of Scotland, late 70s. The regular post match singalong on the bus was "Brown Girl In The Ring". One guy insisted it was in the RAIN! and wouldn't change. He thought we all got in on a wind up.
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Rainbow: I Surrender,

"I surrender to your heartbeat", always sounded like, "I surrender to your armpits". Another one is "Chain Reaction" by Diane Ross, it always sounded like she was singing, to Eddie Waring there is no salvation.

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i remeber for years thinking a the killing joke song follow the leader, went torremelinos could you believe us

Not a misheard lyric but maybe to wind Karanka up next time we play Boro we should sing We are the longball Burnley

I remember from when the Stiff Little Fingers brought out the smash hit Alternative Ulster on the white Noise Album
There was a guy at school totally confused with the lyrics of the song and as he herd it was
I am one hell of a monster

"We built this city on sausage rolls" by Starship and "I know, I know God's a triffid" in Prince's Purple Rain always amuse me.

Excuse me while I kiss this guy..

I tell you to end your life, I wish I could but its too late..

I've heard some of our fans who actually sing "In the Lancashire Rose" instead of "In our Lancashire Home".

Embarrassing.

In a London pub a couple of years ago some half-cut divot tried to get a song going by belting this out at full pelt.....

"Bertie Bee said to Bill Shankly, have you heard of the North Bank Highbury"

His mates joined in ending in a frenzy of "we are the longsi b'lee" at a gazillion beats per minute.

martintheaker wrote:In a London pub a couple of years ago some half-cut divot tried to get a song going by belting this out at full pelt.....

"Bertie Bee said to Bill Shankly, have you heard of the North Bank Highbury"

His mates joined in ending in a frenzy of "we are the longsi b'lee" at a gazillion beats per minute.

Whenever I hear this "version", I wonder why people would think a 6ft mascot bee would be talking to a former manager of Liverpool about a section of Arsenal's ground

My now missuss came home from her first ever game Liverpool v Blackburn, wondering why the Liverpool fans were singing "the referees a victim, the referees a victim" I explained that I was pretty sure that was not what they were singing and what I thought they would have been singing! Cant fathom how she got that so wrong.
I cant talk though as for years I thought Beyonce was singing "I'm a cigarette, I'm a cigarette" rather than "I'm a single lady"

When I first heard the chant oh Burnley is wonderful etc, I used to think they sang oh when the ladies won the cup, iv been a fan of the clarets since the ladies won the cup!!

Also sang were not Chelsea! were not Chelsea! We don't care! We are Burnley super Burnley ! From above!

My daughter used to think at the end of No Nay Never we sang "we hate pasta"