Misheard Song Lyrics -> Stories -> Cher

The Story: My kid sister was singing this song one day at dinner and then she came to that part and sang 'Do you be-lie-ive in life on the road...', and me and my parents started laughing hysterically, though we all agreed that her rendition made more sense than the original. - Submitted by: Punky

The Story: My 2 brothers and I had the most vicious and long-running debate over this one., and we all had theories to back up what we thought we heard Cher sing. Mine was 'Do you believe in love after life?' meaning that she still loved Sonny Bono even though he was dead. Jeff's was 'Do you believe in love after love?' meaning that you can still love again even though you once loved and lost someone. David's was 'Do you believe in life after love?' meaning is there hopee after loving someone and loosing them? The right lyrics, of course. - Submitted by: Rosanna

The Story: Looking back, what I thought makes absolutely no sense, but I was 10 when this song was released. It wasn't until many years later when my mom and I were binge-watching Gilmore Girls, and there was an episode where Lorelei was hosting a dinner at her inn, and at one point they're discussing Cher, and Lorelei says "The year of 'do you believe in life after love?'." I had to pause the episode, looked to my mother, and yelled OH MY GOD. - Submitted by: Jake B

The Story: Actually, I just like my version better than what the lyrics really are. - Submitted by: Richard

The Story: A few school friends and I were standing at the bus stop when we saw a woman with her headphones on grooving away and singing a song in a dubious register. When she reached this chorus (singing only these lines repeatedly for some strange reason), it was only then I realised what she was singing. I'm sure my friends were the same, because tightly we pursed out lips and turned away surreptitiously in a bid not to laugh. - Submitted by: Loveless

The Story: I thought she was like "Simon says". - Submitted by: Cody Finke

The Story: As a kid, I knew a lot about space, to the point that when I couldn't understand certain words, I heard them as space-related things. - Submitted by: Tom

The Story: Is that even possible? - Submitted by: Sheila Oh

The Story: My whole life I've sang gypsy drop that pea . . . didn't learn until a few years ago what the real words were. - Submitted by: Jen

The Story: For many years, I thought it referred to a Viagra type product. - Submitted by: Alan Asper

The Story: These lyrics were 'heard' by the eight-year-old sister of a gal I was dating at the time. It took me this long to find a place to share this info. Many times I have sung these misheard lyrics. Puts a smile on my face every time!!! - Submitted by: Bear Campbell

The Story: This seemed to be one of those records that was always on the radio when I was a kid and for some reason I had this confusing image that the song was about some people stealing tram sand (whatever that is!) and a dog called Jip watching them do it. To this day I have no idea why I thought this. - Submitted by: Faith Frost

The Story: I was asking a friend if he knew the song, and that is what he sang. I had to correct him. - Submitted by: i have one

The Story: I argued with my sister about it when we were about ten years old. How embarassing! - Submitted by: Thedoomchicken

The Story: A friend at work heard it that way, and we all just went along. - Submitted by: Anita

The Story: Hey, what can I say, I was a Tween back then...but I swear I thought that's what she was singing! - Submitted by: Frank

The Story: My siblings laughed (at me) for a week when I told them. - Submitted by: Mikala

The Story: Must be nothing worse than being called a truck! That's was my reasoning for what I thought the words were, as a kid. - Submitted by: John R.

The Story: I really have no idea what a "trail-band" thief is, but that is what it sounded like to a 10-year old on an AM transistor radio. - Submitted by: TN

The Story: Here is a song whose title line I misunderstood, despite hearing it often announced on the radio. I had just gotten my driver's license when the song was new, enabling me to listen to pop/rock music to a significant degree for the first time in years. I don't know that my parents ever denounced pop/rock as downright Satanic, but they certainly did scorn it as decadent. So for years prior to my learning to drive, all radios in our house and cars were pretty much permanently tuned to country stations. Being in a car alone for the first time and able to experiment with listening to different types of music, I heard this. I'd vaguely heard of Sonny and Cher, but didn't know they'd broken up. I didn't recognize Cher's name apart from 'Sonny And Cher'. What I must have been hearing the DJ say after this song was, "That was Cher with 'Gypsies, Tramps, And Thieves'". I thought he was saying, "That was Sherwood Gypsies' "Tramps And Thieves'." It never was among my favorite songs. That's in part a good thing. Otherwise, I might have tortured myself searching in vain for records by 'Sherwood Gypsies'! - Submitted by: Angelica Drake

The Story: While riding in a car, my girlfriend was singing in the back seat of the car. When my buddy turned down the radio, she was singing what she thought she heard. - Submitted by: Gary

The Story: Thanks to amiright.com, I see that I am by no means the only one who ever found these words difficult to understand. The above was my best guess. Now I find that I was no farther off then numerous others. Some people whom I've showed amiright.com to think it is a most extreme trivia site. But I think it performs a most valuable service. Mishearing song lyrics can be quite a source of embarrassment and shame, and some of us mishearers have long suffered in silence. But amiright.com finally brings us out of the closet and helps us realize how universal this secret is. I'll bet everybody has sometimes misheard lyrics! - Submitted by: Sheila Munroe

The Story: Saw on Roseanne - Submitted by: Don Linville

The Story: I was working at Kinko's, and none of us had every heard the song before. The store's music system was locked onto one channel, so we heard the song about 6 times every day. None of us could figure out what Cher was saying. It took us 3 months to figure out what they were. - Submitted by: Aidan

The Story: I always assumed the words said 'doctor fluid' until I sang this as a karaoke song and picked up the real words from the screen. I still don't know if 'Dr. Good' was ever actually a name brand of some concoction or anything. - Submitted by: Amber Malone

The Story: I always feel it's good to be honest about misheard lyrics. I really thought this was a commercial for Dentyne, when I first heard bits and pieces of this song back in the day. - Submitted by: Bill Mobley

The Story: It seemed pretty inappropriate, but I just figured that only Cher could get away with singing this in public. - Submitted by: LK

The Story: My friend's wife sang this. - Submitted by: JL

The Story: I kept thinking the British television programme whenever I heard this. - Submitted by: Cody Finke

The Story: My sister, as a child thought that this was the lyric of the song. She got mad when corrected--and the funny thing is that she still gets mad to this day when you bring it up. - Submitted by: kermit

The Story: My roommate and I were sitting around the dorm when Cher came on. My roommate busted out with the misheard lyrics like she really knew them. We laughed for hours! - Submitted by: Ashley

The Story: A guy my father drove a plow truck with in the winter; leaned over one day while this song was on the radio; and asked, "What the heck does that mean anyway...it's Skinny's kid? Who is Skinny?" - Submitted by: StryKer

The Story: I honestly thought you could tell if someone loved you by looking in their Corn Flakes in the morning. - Submitted by: Vickster

The Story: I always loved Cher, and I used to sing her songs all the time...this was one of my dad's favorite of my mistakes. - Submitted by: Kyle Rooker

The Story: I've been singing these lyrics for 18 years!!! It wasn't until my best friend and my brother heard me singing this song that they told me it was wrong. When they stopped laughing that was. - Submitted by: Helen