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Men Without Hats', "Hey Men"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I said Hellmann
The Real Lyrics:
I said "hey men"
The Story: Could have sworn for selling mayo! - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Men Without Hats', "Pop Goes the World"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Pop goes the worm
The Real Lyrics:
Pop goes the world
The Story: The song I remember hearing in a commercial for Tide Pods. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Men Without Hats', "Pop Goes the World"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Pop goes the worm
The Real Lyrics:
Pop goes the world
The Story: The song featured in a commercial for Tide Pods. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Men Without Hats', "Safety Dance"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And I shat on my hat and microwaved my rat Because I'm an asshole in Brazil
The Real Lyrics:
And you can act real rude and totally removed And I can act like an imbecile.
The Story: I farted. - Submitted by: Bob
Men Without Hats', "Safety Dance"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And you can act real cool and go to Liverpool
And I can act like an imbecile.
And I can act like an imbecile.
The Real Lyrics:
And you can act real rude and totally removed
And I can act like an imbecile.
And I can act like an imbecile.
The Story: Ever since this was released, certainly heard this more than a hundred times - Submitted by: Heikkki Rantalaiho
Men Without Hats', "Safety Dance"
The Misheard Lyrics:
As long as we have music
Never gonna lose it.
Never gonna lose it.
The Real Lyrics:
As long as we abuse it
Never gonna lose it
Never gonna lose it
The Story: Actually someone put the wrongly misheard lyrics here as the correct one WHICH IS DEFINITELY FALSE! - Submitted by: DuckMaster
Men Without Hats', "Safety Dance"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Say Gdansk.
The Real Lyrics:
Safety dance.
The Story: At the time of this song, the Gdansk shipyards in Poland were experiencing a Labor Union revolt lead by Lech Walesa. - Submitted by: Paul Whitcomb
Men Without Hats', "Safety Dance"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We can dance if we want to
We can leave your pants behind
'Cuz if your pants don't dance and if they don't dance
Then they're no pants of mine.
We can leave your pants behind
'Cuz if your pants don't dance and if they don't dance
Then they're no pants of mine.
The Real Lyrics:
We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
'Cuz your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Then they're no friends of mine.
We can leave your friends behind
'Cuz your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Then they're no friends of mine.
The Story: I heard this on the radio when I was about 10 years old. The very first time I heard it, I thought it was a parody for a Spongebob Squarepants ad: 'You can wear Spongebob if you want to. You can wear him all the time. If you get the chance you can wear square pants, even on your behind'. So I think I must have confused that version with the original. - Submitted by: Nathan
Men Without Hats', "Safety Dance"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We can dance, we can dance, everybody look at Jahan
The Real Lyrics:
We can dance, we can dance, everybody look at your hands
The Story: Marian Jahan was the "stunt dancer" who really did all the moves in the movie Flashdance, which star Jennifer Beals took credit for...I always thought this song was just laying out the truth for everyone! - Submitted by: Frank
Men Without Hats', "Safety Dance"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We can dance, we can dance, everything's out of control
We can dance, we can dance, we're doin' it in both holes.
We can dance, we can dance, we're doin' it in both holes.
The Real Lyrics:
We can dance, we can dance, everything's out of control
We can dance, we can dance, we're doin' it from pole to pole.
We can dance, we can dance, we're doin' it from pole to pole.
The Story: This was all I could discern from the lyrics for years. I had to buy the recording in 1996 to finally figure out what they were really saying. - Submitted by: C. Thompson
Men Without Hats', "Safety Dance"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody look at Jahan
Everybody look at Jahan
The Real Lyrics:
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody look at your hands
Everybody look at your hands
The Story: Marine Jahan was the dancer who actually did the dancing in the movie Flashdance (not Jennifer Beals), although she was not originally credited. - Submitted by: Frank
Men Without Hats', "Safety Dance"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We can eat your friend's behind.
The Real Lyrics:
We can leave your friends behind.
The Story: I heard someone singing this in a club.. funny! - Submitted by: WBTX
Men Without Hats', "Safety Dance"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We'll save the dance
The Real Lyrics:
We'll safety dance.
The Story: When I first heard this song, everybody was saying it was about a ban on slam dancing. (It wasn't.) So 'We'll save the dance' made a lot of sense to me. - Submitted by: Mjn Seifer
Men Without Hats', "The Safety Dance"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We can dance if we waddo
The Real Lyrics:
We could dance if we want to
The Story: Kept thinking they used a made up word like "Waddo" - Submitted by: Gabe
Men Without Hats', "The Safety Dance"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We could dance in the water
The Real Lyrics:
We could dance if we want to
The Story: That's what I REALLY thought they said at first! - Submitted by: Cody Finke
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