It's gonna take geishas and time

The story:

I was with my parents and we were driving home from Oriental Palace and listening to the radio. I was probably in middle school or late elementary school, and I was singing along to the radio. When I sang this lyric my stepdad started laughing so hard. He ended up with the hiccups, and we were all crying from laughing so hard. But I had no idea what a geisha was and it was years before I figured out the real lyric-- I just knew that I was wrong.