My friend and sometimes host for 90.7 KPFK's Travel Tips For Aztlan Mari G confessed to mistaken lyrics on her myspace page. Because of all the latest hype about the Transformers, it was exposed that she had been singing the wrong lyrics to their theme song for years. She thought the Transformers song went: “Transformers, robots in the sky!” Rather than “Transformers, robots in disguise!” She also mentioned that her brother thought that "Red Red Wine" went, “Reg-gie White,” maybe because the late great NFL football player was all over the news when that song was out. 
Along the same sports theme, when I was a kid I thought the lyrics to The Commodores song "Easy" went, "Why in the world would anybody Wilt Chamberlain?" rather than, "Why in the world would anybody put chains on me?” Don't ask me why, it's just what I heard. When that song was out Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was in L.A. and Wilt had long split the scene and was no longer in the news.
Also, for some reason, in Santana’s version of "Evil Ways," when they sang, “You got to change your evil ways, baby!,” I heard it, "Que hijo de tu (p*nCh#) madre, David!"
Maybe because my pops muttered that under his breathe to me all the time!
Got any mistaken lyrics of your youth you'd like to share?
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Oh, that Mari G. Lol. I always thought it was "Transformers meets the eye." Even worse.
When we were around 11 years old my friend Javier thought that Creedance Clearwater Revival's song, Proud Mary , went,"Rolling, rolling, rolling out a window" instead of, "Rolling, rolling, rolling on the river."
You can add every Le Tigre song to your list on my behalf. I butcher their songs all the time! :)