text: what song lyrics did you get wrong?? when i was a kid, i used to like that song, 'you picked a fine time to leave me, lucille'.  i could never get the lyrics to the chorus. i would sing....  " you picked a fine time to leave me, lucille, with four hundred children and crop that won't peel. there are so many other songs i never quite got the words to until i was older, i've had some good laughs when i realised i was singing the wrong words all that time!  be funny to know what song lyrics others have gotten wrong?? a woman who worked in the next cubicle over from me was singing with the radio one day.  the song was john mellencamp's "authority song" which says, "i fight authority, authority always wins," but she was singing, "i fight with dorothy and dorothy always wins."  i told my boss about it, and he admitted that he'd always messed up the old rick springfield song "don't talk to strangers."   where it says, "some sleek, continental dude," he thought it said, "no sleep, but a nap will do."