It topped the charts for six weeks upon being released, was famously sung by Meryl Streep on the silver screen and has been streamed almost two billion times.
But such popularity has not prevented Abba’s 1976 hit Dancing Queen being declared this country’s most misquoted track.
The party favourite is supposedly the song that confuses Britons the most, with many bellowing ‘dancing queen, feel the beat from the tangerine’, according to a poll.
This is instead of the correct – and somewhat more logical – lyrics ‘dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine’.
Some 70 per cent of participants revealed they have sung the lines to the biggest hits incorrectly, with a remarkably honest 15 per cent admitting they did so for more than a decade.
Queen’s popular anthem We Will Rock You is the second-most misquoted track, with the line ‘kicking your can all over the place’ being swapped to ‘kicking your cat all over the place’.
The survey also found fans of Taylor Swift’s Blank Space sing ‘all the lonely Starbucks lovers’ rather than ‘got a long list of ex-lovers’.
And in what many know only to be a common ‘dad joke’, I Can See Clearly Now by Johnny Nash is misquoted with the lyrics ‘I can see clearly now the rain has gone’ changed to ‘I can see Deirdre now Lorraine has gone’.
Abba’s hit Dancing Queen topped the charts for six weeks upon being released and was famously sung by Meryl Streep on the silver screen
Dancing Queen has been streamed almost two billion times but is supposedly the song that confuses Britons the most
Bon Jovi’s hit Livin’ On A Prayer is also often misheard as saying ‘it doesn’t make a difference if we’re naked or not’, rather than ‘it doesn’t make a difference if we make it or not’.
Around two in five will even continue to sing the wrong lyrics despite being corrected, the poll by Butlin’s found.
Presenter and DJ Pat Sharp, who partnered with the holiday resort chain for the study, said: ‘Seeing Dancing Queen take the crown as the most misheard song to me is testament to how iconic it is.
‘Whether you know the words or not, it is a universally loved tune you can’t not sing along to.’
Meanwhile, the survey also discovered more than a quarter (27 per cent) of music lovers believe they are good singers and more than a third (35 per cent) admit to singing songs without knowing the words.
