Does any know of a rock song from the late 70’s early 80’s with the line something like “I need some water, beaucoup water!”
Eddie Money: Give Me Some Water has “cool cool water”
Thanks for the ear worm …
Yes that’s it!!! Thank you!
I really can’t believe I mis-heard those lyrics for so many years! In my defense I likely first heard it listening to WBSR 1450 AM with spotty reception and never owned the album:-( As a bonus now my sons know what “beaucoup” means so it increased their vocab even if it was never part of the song I was looking for. Two thumbs up for @AboutTheSame !!
Some of the funniest sites are those where people list lyrics they had misunderstood for years. Mine was Tears for Fears “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”, which, despite being the title, took me like 3 or 4 listens to realize they weren’t saying “Everbody wants to Hula-Hoop”.
When my oldest son was 10 he thought the line " catch an airplane" from No Place Like Home For The Holidays was " habanero plane"
Until she was in 2nd grade and first saw “The Pledge of Allegiance” displayed on a poster, our daughter had been reciting “…and to the republic for widget stands…” She was so excited after school that day. It had never made sense to her why we would be pledging allegiance to the republic for widget stands! 
In Prince’s When Doves Cry, I’d heard the line " animals strike curious poses…" as “and the most tri-curious poses…” which made perfectly good sense to me, considering the androgynous/multisexual identity Prince seemed to have to my teenage self. Turns out my older brother heard exactly the same thing I had.
Wish I had a photo of the expression on my daughter’s face when she heard me singing Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space”. I thought " got a long list of ex-lovers" was " got along with Starbucks lovers". LOL
I smile whenever I hear “Let My Love Open the Door” (Pete Townsend) because my friend thought it was “Let Myra Open the Door”
Michael Jackson, Wanna Be Starting Something…“you’re a vegetable, you’re a vegetable…” For years I thought it said that. Turns out, I was right!!! Why? So weird!
Oh boy, in the song Margaritaville my mother would always sing “stepped on a poptart”
Son thought ‘Young girl, get out of my life’ was ‘Yonder get out of my life’ When we informed him of the correct lyrics, he thought about it for a moment and said ‘ewwwwww that’s gross and just wrong’
I’m old enough to remember Walter Cronkite and the evening news. I wondered for a long time why all these people were curious about ‘the number of chairs trained on Wall Street’. hmmmm
A toddler was singing the alphabet song, and after singing the middle part (l-m-n-o-p) turned to me and asked ?whats a minnow? (l -a minnow -p)
A Bryan Adams song has the lyrics “cuts like a knife” that for years I thought was the most stunningly obscene phrase. I can’t even euphemize it to say what I thought it was.
My friends about died laughing when I questioned how something like that could get on the radio. :">
Sade’s song “Smooth Operator” has the title in the lyrics.
I was pretty young when that song was popular/on the radio and I thought the lyrics were
“No need to ask, he’s an ooh bompa redda. Ooh… bompa redda.”
And “Dance Hall Days” was “Dance All Day”… until I saw the title…
hahaha
real lyrics: I can see clearly now, the rain is gone/ I can see all obstacles in my way.
What I heard as a 5 year old: I can see all POPSICLES in my way.
@Shanban1607, I always heard “stepped on a poptart” too as I kid because I had no idea what a pop top was.
I didn’t know it wasn’t “stepped on a pop tart” until this thread!
What pop tab (or tart)? I’m not familiar with these lyrics.
“Stepped on a Pop top”- the little metal thing that comes off the soda can so you can drink it.
A Pop Tart is a small flat pastry you put in a toaster.