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Misheard Song Lyrics -> Artist -> B -> The B-52's
Misheard song lyrics (also called mondegreens) occur when people misunderstand the lyrics in a song. These are NOT intentional rephrasing of lyrics, which is called parody. This page contains all the misheard lyrics for The B-52's that have been submitted to this site and the old collection from inthe80s started in 1996. For more information about the misheard lyrics available on this site, please read our FAQ.
There are 185 misheard song lyrics for The B-52's on amIright currently.
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"52 Girls" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Eddie, the-uh-uh-uh, Scrabble, do-do
Original Lyrics:
Effie, Madge, and Mabel and Biddie
"52 Girls" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Eddy The-uh-uh Scrabble!
Hit 'em on the beach.
Hit 'em on the beach.
Original Lyrics:
Effie, Madge and Mabel and Biddie
See them on the beach.
See them on the beach.
"52 Girls" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Everybody trouble dirty
Kill 'em on the beach I aint never
You're big, dude Anne Hegel and Baldwin
Can united name, name, name, name are today
Kill 'em on the beach I aint never
You're big, dude Anne Hegel and Baldwin
Can united name, name, name, name are today
Original Lyrics:
Effie, Madge and Mabel and Biddie
See them on the beach
Or in New York City Tina, Louise and Hazel and Mavis
Can you name, name, name, name them today
See them on the beach
Or in New York City Tina, Louise and Hazel and Mavis
Can you name, name, name, name them today
"52 Girls" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
These are the girls of the U.S.A.
The sad, troubled girls of the U.S.A.
The sad, troubled girls of the U.S.A.
Original Lyrics:
These are the girls of the U.S.A.
The principal girls of the U.S.A.
The principal girls of the U.S.A.
"Cake"
Misheard Lyrics:
I said come to my recipe
You're pattied out of slow booze.
You're pattied out of slow booze.
Original Lyrics:
According to my recipe
You put it on a slow bake.
You put it on a slow bake.
"Channel Z" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Getting a Biscotti on Planet Z
Original Lyrics:
Getting nothing but static on Channel Z
"Channel Z" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Hamburger diamonds! Pop up in my head.
Original Lyrics:
Hamburger ads! Pop up in my head.
"Channel Z" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Hamburgers! Are talking in my head!
Original Lyrics:
Hamburger ads! Pop up in my head.
"Channel Z" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Hamburgers! Foaming in my head!
Original Lyrics:
Hamburger ads! Pop up in my head.
"Channel Z" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Sigmund Freud! Take my money away!
Original Lyrics:
Secret wars! Take my money away!
"Cosmic Thing" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
That guy rapes 'till you've had your fill
Just like a new automatic drill
Just like a new automatic drill
Original Lyrics:
Gyrate till you've had your fill
Just like a pneumatic drill
Just like a pneumatic drill
"Cosmic Thing" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Till night falls and gang rapes
Gonna shake, shake, shake!
Gonna shake, shake, shake!
Original Lyrics:
Till night falls and day breaks
Gonna shake, shake, shake!
Gonna shake, shake, shake!
"Dance This Mess Around" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm just a limber girl.
Original Lyrics:
I'm just a limburger.
"Dance This Mess Around" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm not no little black girl.
Original Lyrics:
I'm not no limburger.
"Dance This Mess Around" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Why don't you dance with me?
I'm not no little girl.
I'm not no little girl.
Original Lyrics:
Why don't you dance with me?
I'm not no Limburger.
I'm not no Limburger.
"Deadbeat Club" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Go down to the garden and torch it in the rain
Where the dead becomes
Where the dead becomes
Original Lyrics:
We'll dance in the garden In torn sheets in the rain
We're the deadbeat club
We're the deadbeat club
"Deadbeat Club" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Well I'm down to a carton
Of corn trees in the rain
With a deadbeat dog.
or
Well, I'm down in a garden
Of palm trees in the rain
With a deadbeat dog.
Of corn trees in the rain
With a deadbeat dog.
or
Well, I'm down in a garden
Of palm trees in the rain
With a deadbeat dog.
Original Lyrics:
We'll dance in the garden
In torn sheets in the rain
We're the deadbeat club.
In torn sheets in the rain
We're the deadbeat club.
"Deadbeat Club" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Where the deaf make love.
Original Lyrics:
We're the deadbeat club.
"Dry County" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
When the blues kick you in the head
And you roll out of bed and you moan, 'Uuhhhhh!'
Just sit on the fortune swing.
And you roll out of bed and you moan, 'Uuhhhhh!'
Just sit on the fortune swing.
Original Lyrics:
When the blues kick you in the head
And you roll out of bed in the morning
Just sit on the porch and swing.
And you roll out of bed in the morning
Just sit on the porch and swing.
"Funplex"
Misheard Lyrics:
Ohhh, Broke my heart at the funplex
Yes you dude, yes you dude
Yes you dude, yes you dude
Original Lyrics:
Ohhh, Broke my heart at the funplex
Yes you did, yes you did
Yes you did, yes you did
"Give Me Back My Man" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Walking out of Korvettes
Like a Virginia Ham.
Like a Virginia Ham.
Original Lyrics:
Walking out of Korvettes
Package in her hand.
Package in her hand.
"Give Me Back My Man" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Walking out of Korvettes
Package in her hand
Her shoes too wide to see Earth
Oh, infinity all descends.
Package in her hand
Her shoes too wide to see Earth
Oh, infinity all descends.
Original Lyrics:
Walking out of Korvettes,
Package in her hand.
Motions to all the seabirds,
Throws divinity on the sand.
Package in her hand.
Motions to all the seabirds,
Throws divinity on the sand.
"Is That You, Mo-Dean?" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
The interdimensional outer space bean
Original Lyrics:
The interdimensional outer space being
"Junebug" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Jim Dial! Jim Dial! Jim Dial!
Original Lyrics:
Junebug! Junebug! Junebug!
"Legal Tender" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Filled it up with jelly jars and heavy, it's Christmas
We're in the basement.
We're in the basement.
Original Lyrics:
Filled it up with jelly jars and heavy equipment
We're in the basement.
We're in the basement.
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Gang Bang... on the floor baby
or
Bat-Man... on the door baby
or
Bat-Man... on the door baby
Original Lyrics:
Bang Bang... on the door baby
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Butt crack, baby butt crack
Original Lyrics:
Love shack, baby love shack
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Everybody's groovin' baby
F***ing in a shack!
F*** king in a shack!
F***ing in a shack!
F*** king in a shack!
Original Lyrics:
Everybody's groovin', baby
Funky little shack!
Funky little shack!
Funky little shack!
Funky little shack!
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
F*ck your little shack! F*ck your little shack!
Original Lyrics:
Funky little shack! Funky little shack!
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Folks' not enough outside just to get down
Original Lyrics:
Folks lining up outside just to get down
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Glove Slap, Baby Glove Slap
Original Lyrics:
Love Shack Baby Love Shack
This was a special version recorded for the Simpsons
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Gloveslap won't take no crap
Gloveslap shut yer big yap.
Gloveslap shut yer big yap.
Original Lyrics:
Love shack, baby, love shack
Love shack, baby, love shack.
Love shack, baby, love shack.
"Love Shack"
Misheard Lyrics:
Hen Row! Rust!
Original Lyrics:
Tinroof, rusted
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Humpin my Chrysler it's as big as a whale
Original Lyrics:
Hop in my Chrysler it's as big as a whale
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Humpin' Mike Riseler
It's as big as a whale.
It's as big as a whale.
Original Lyrics:
Hop in my Chrysler
It's as big as a whale.
It's as big as a whale.
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Humpin' my Chrysler
It's as big as a whale.
It's as big as a whale.
Original Lyrics:
Hop in my Chrysler
It's as big as a whale.
It's as big as a whale.
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Hurry up and bring your cute Bugs Bunny.
Original Lyrics:
So hurry up and bring your jukebox money.
Misheard by the daughter of a friend.
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm heading down the Mylanta highway.
or
I'm heading down Viagra highway.
or
I'm heading down Viagra highway.
Original Lyrics:
I'm headin' down the Atlanta highway.
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
If you stay up late at night on the side of the road
Original Lyrics:
If you see a faded sign on the side of the road
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Knock it all out, sugar
Your what? Hey, Rick! Blessing!
Your what? Hey, Rick! Blessing!
Original Lyrics:
Knock a little louder, sugar
You're what?! Tin roof, rusted.
You're what?! Tin roof, rusted.
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Litter on the mattress
Litter on the highway
Littler on the Love Bus
Litter on the highway
Litter on the highway
Littler on the Love Bus
Litter on the highway
Original Lyrics:
Glitter on the mattress
Glitter on the highway
Glitter on the front porch
Glitter on the highway
Glitter on the highway
Glitter on the front porch
Glitter on the highway
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Lotion!
Baby lotion!
Baby lotion!
Original Lyrics:
Love Shack!
Baby, Love Shack!
Baby, Love Shack!
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Lotion, la-la-lotion
Original Lyrics:
Love shack, la-la-love shack
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Ball Sack Baby Ball Sack
or
Butt crack, baby butt crack
or
Lotion-Baby- Lotion, Lotion, Baaabyyy
or
Lotion-Baby- Lotion, Lotion, Baaabyyy
Original Lyrics:
Love Shack Baby Love Shack
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Love s***, baby
Love s***
Love s***
Original Lyrics:
Love Shack, baby
Love Shack
Love Shack
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Love shaft, baby love shaft
Original Lyrics:
Love Shack, baby Love Shack
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Love sick
or
Love sack
or
Love to shag
or
Love sack
or
Love to shag
Original Lyrics:
Love shack
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Not gonna allow it, sugar!
Original Lyrics:
Knock a little louder, sugar!
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Puppy in the sack, puppy in the sack
Original Lyrics:
Funky little shack, funky little shack
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Say what??
Tim Ruth, rust.
Tim Ruth, rust.
Original Lyrics:
You're what??
Tin roof, rusted.
Tin roof, rusted.
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
So hurry up and bring your Durex money.
Original Lyrics:
So hurry up and bring your juke box money.
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
So hurry up and bring your poo-box, bunny!
Original Lyrics:
So hurry up and bring your juke-box money!
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
So hurry up and bring your shoebox money.
Original Lyrics:
So hurry up and bring your jukebox money.
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
So hurry up! And bring your juice box money!
Original Lyrics:
So hurry up! And bring your juke box money!
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
So hurry up, and bring your douche box, honey.
or
So hurry up, and bring your douche bag money.
or
Hurry up and bring your lunchbox money.
or
So hurry up, and bring your douche bag money.
or
Hurry up and bring your lunchbox money.
Original Lyrics:
So hurry up, and bring your jukebox money.
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Ten roo, rusty
or
Tang room, rusty
or
Tang room, rusty
Original Lyrics:
Tin roof, rusted
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
The love shack is a little-known place where
We can get together.
We can get together.
Original Lyrics:
The love shack is a little old place where
We can get together.
We can get together.
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
The whole shack's sh*tty
or
The love shack sugar
or
The love shack sugar
Original Lyrics:
The whole shack shimmies
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Henry's Busted!!!
or
You're what? In route. Rusted.
or
Tin nerf busted
or
Henry!!! Rusty
or
Tin roof, russet!
or
Tin roof, russet!
Original Lyrics:
My tin roof rusted
Southern slang for getting pregnant
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Wearin' next to nothin'
'Cause it's a part of the fun.
'Cause it's a part of the fun.
Original Lyrics:
Wearin' next to nothin'
'Cause it's hot as an oven.
'Cause it's hot as an oven.
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Wearin' next to nothin'
'Cause it's hard as a nubbin'.
'Cause it's hard as a nubbin'.
Original Lyrics:
Wearin' next to nothin'
'Cause it's hot as an oven.
'Cause it's hot as an oven.
"Love Shack"
Misheard Lyrics:
Wearin' next to nothin, 'cause it's part of the fun.
Original Lyrics:
Wearin' next to nothin, 'cause it's hot as an oven.
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Wearin' next to nothing, cause it's hard as a nubbin
Original Lyrics:
Wearin' next to nothing, cause it's hot as an oven
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Wearing next to nothing, 'cause it's hard as a nothin
Original Lyrics:
Wearing next to nothing, cause its hot as an oven
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Wearing next to nothing
'Cause it's hard as a knob end.
'Cause it's hard as a knob end.
Original Lyrics:
Wearing next to nothing
'Cause it's hot as an oven.
'Cause it's hot as an oven.
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Yo! what? Henry, "rest".
Original Lyrics:
You're what?! Tin roof, rusted
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
You're What?
Henry! Restin'
Henry! Restin'
Original Lyrics:
You're What?
Tin roof, rusted
Tin roof, rusted
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
You're what? Pregnant! Rest!
Original Lyrics:
Your what? Tin roof! Rusted
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
You're what?!
En route, Russ.
En route, Russ.
Original Lyrics:
You're what?!
Tin roof, rusted.
Tin roof, rusted.
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
You're what?!
Henry Russell!
Henry Russell!
Original Lyrics:
You're what?!
Tin roof, rusted!
Tin roof, rusted!
"Love Shack"
Misheard Lyrics:
You're what?
Henro! Rest it!
Henro! Rest it!
Original Lyrics:
You're what?
Tin roof, rusted.
Tin roof, rusted.
"Love Shack" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Your what?! No idea.
Original Lyrics:
Your what?! Tin roof rusted.
"Mesopotamia" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I'll meet you by the fur pyramids.
Original Lyrics:
I'll meet you by the third pyramid.
"Private Idaho" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Dog went on the patio
Beware of the poo.
Beware of the poo.
Original Lyrics:
Don't go on the patio
Beware of the pool.
Beware of the pool.
"Private Idaho" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Like the deadly hands of the great ham fluff
Original Lyrics:
Like the deadly hands of the radium clock
"Private Idaho" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Yo no quiero que me rompan el ano.
Original Lyrics:
You're living in your own private Idaho.
In Spanish, 'Yo no quiero que me rompan el ano' means something like 'I dont want my anus to be broken.')
"Queen Of Las Vegas" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Queen, queen of Oswego
Original Lyrics:
Queen, queen of Las Vegas
"Roam"
Misheard Lyrics:
Blown around the word.
Original Lyrics:
Roam around the world.
"Roam" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Camel Turd on a Dusty Trail
Original Lyrics:
Oh girl, dancin' down those dirty and dusty trails
"Roam" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Kick through continents--bustin' down the reeds
Original Lyrics:
Kick through continents--bustin' boundaries
"Roam" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Roll, Nipsey Russel
or
Oh, whiskey bottle
or
Oh, whiskey bottle
Original Lyrics:
Roam, if you want to
"Roam" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Rock it through the wilderness.
Original Lyrics:
Rocket through the wilderness.
"Roam"
Misheard Lyrics:
Roll Mister want to.
Original Lyrics:
Roam, if you want to.
"Roam" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Roll lift you up to
Roll around the world.
Roll around the world.
Original Lyrics:
Roam if you want to
Roam around the world.
Roam around the world.
"Roam"
Misheard Lyrics:
Roll, Misty Waterloo!
Original Lyrics:
Roam, if you want to!
"Roam"
Misheard Lyrics:
Roll, gypsy what too.
Original Lyrics:
Roam if you want to.
"Roam" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Roll, lift you up too
or Roll, if you're up two.
or Roll, if you're up two.
Original Lyrics:
Roam if you want to.
"Roam" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Rome, makes me want to
Roll around the whirl.
Roll around the whirl.
Original Lyrics:
Roam, if you want to
Roam around the world.
Roam around the world.
"Roam" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
You make me want to
Roam around the world!
Roam around the world!
Original Lyrics:
Roam if we want to
Roam around the world.
Roam around the world.
"Rock Lobster" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Everybody had a pink towel.
Original Lyrics:
Everybody had matching towels.
"Rock Lobster" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Everybody had magic towels.
Original Lyrics:
Everybody had matching towels.
"Rock Lobster" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Apoka
or
Frock lobster
or
Frock lobster
Original Lyrics:
Rock lobster
"Rock Lobster" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Here comes a big killer whale!
Original Lyrics:
Here comes a bikini whale!
"Rock Lobster" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Rock Island
or
Hot lava
or
Hot lava
Original Lyrics:
Rock lobster
"Rock Lobster" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
It wasn't Iraq.
Was Iraq's lobster!
Was Iraq's lobster!
Original Lyrics:
It wasn't a rock.
It was a rock lobster!
It was a rock lobster!
"Rock Lobster" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Look out for the killer whale!
Original Lyrics:
Here comes a bikini whale!
"Rock Lobster" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Pass the Satanic butter.
Original Lyrics:
Pass the tanning butter.
"Rock Lobster" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Pissin' on the fire, having fun.
Original Lyrics:
Twistin' 'round the fire, havin' fun
"Rock Lobster" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Put on your your nose-guard!
Put on the Right-Guard!
Put on the Right-Guard!
Original Lyrics:
Put on your nose-guard
Put on the lifeguard.
Put on the lifeguard.
"Rock Lobster" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Sea was a setting!
Dolphins wetting!
Dolphins wetting!
Original Lyrics:
Seahorses sailing!
Dolphins wailing!
Dolphins wailing!
"Rock Lobster" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Somebody went under a jar.
Original Lyrics:
Somebody went under a dock.
"Rock Lobster" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Somebody wiped under a dog.
Original Lyrics:
Somebody went under a dock.
"Rock Lobster" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
That's Satanic butter!
Original Lyrics:
Pass the tanning butter.
Garry Mullholland in his book 'This is Uncool' thought he heard the same wrong lyric, so it must be a British thing.
"Rock Lobster" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
We were at a party
His ear lobe fell in the deep
Someone reached into their privates
It was a rock lobster
His ear lobe fell in the deep
Someone reached into their privates
It was a rock lobster
Original Lyrics:
We were at a party
His ear lobe fell in the deep
Someone reached in and grabbed it
It was a rock lobster.
His ear lobe fell in the deep
Someone reached in and grabbed it
It was a rock lobster.
"Rock Lobster" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
We were at a party
Did you hear about Bella McGee?
Did you hear about Bella McGee?
Original Lyrics:
We were at a party
His ear lobe fell in the deep
His ear lobe fell in the deep
"Rock Lobster" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
We were at a party
Thrown by Fibber McGee.
Thrown by Fibber McGee.
Original Lyrics:
We were at a party
His ear lobe fell in the deep.
His ear lobe fell in the deep.
'Fibber McGee and Molly' was a situation comedy radio show that was broadcast from 1935-1959 on the National Broadcasting Company, and can still be heard today on various local stations broadcasting old-time radio programs. The show was known for its Vaudeville humor and Midwestern flavor. The action revolved mainly around Fibber and Molly McGee. Their friends and neighbors would visit the McGees' home and discuss events of the day, or join in on whatever the McGees were doing.
"Rock Lobster" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
We were at a party
To hear old fellow McGee.
To hear old fellow McGee.
Original Lyrics:
We were at a party
His ear lobe fell in the deep.
His ear lobe fell in the deep.
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