Misheard Lyrics -> New Entries for February 4, 2008
Misheard lyrics (also called mondegreens) occur when people misunderstand the lyrics in a song. These are NOT intentional rephrasing of lyrics, which is called parody. For more information about the misheard lyrics available on this site, please read our FAQ.
1960s | |
Jeff Beck and the Yardbirds', "Hi Ho Silver Lining"
Misheard Lyrics: Flys are going to get you some day, just wait and see, so open up your peach umbrella, while you watch TV.
Original Lyrics: Life is going to get you some day, just wait and see, so open up your beach umbrella, while you watch TV.
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Mitch Ryder's, "Devil With A Blue Dress On"
Misheard Lyrics: Devil with a crew cut, crew cut oh.
Devil with a crew cut oh. Original Lyrics: Devil with a blue dress, blue dress on.
Devil with a blue dress on. |
The Beach Boys', "Hushabye"
Misheard Lyrics: There goes my egg on your bed
Original Lyrics: Pillows lying on your bed
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The Kinks', "Waterloo Sunset"
Misheard Lyrics: There's mamas like Hazel, Waterloo Sunset I am in paradise.
Original Lyrics: As long as I gaze on Waterloo Sunset I am in paradise.
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1970s | |
David Bowie 's, "Life on Mars"
Misheard Lyrics: Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my darkened clowns Original Lyrics: Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns |
Deep Purple's, "My Woman from Tokyo"
Misheard Lyrics: My woman is okie do
Original Lyrics: My woman from Tokyo
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Eagles', "Hotel California"
Misheard Lyrics: Warm smell of the wheat grass
Original Lyrics: Warm smell of colitas risng up through the air
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Elton John's, "Levon"
Misheard Lyrics: He called his jive Jesus
Original Lyrics: He calls his child Jesus
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Kate Bush's, "Wuthering Heights"
Misheard Lyrics: My one dream; my only b*****d
Original Lyrics: My one dream; my only master
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Led Zeppelin's, "Black Country Woman"
Misheard Lyrics: Na leave it yet.
Original Lyrics: Naw leave it yeah!
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Neil Diamond 's, "Cracklin' Rosie"
Misheard Lyrics: Taco supreme but don't ask no questions, yeah.
Original Lyrics: Find us a dream that don't asks no questions, yeah.
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The Kinks', "Waterloo Sunset"
Misheard Lyrics: Tearing me stupid
Waterloo Station Every Friday night Original Lyrics: Terry meets Julie
At Waterloo Station Every Friday night. |
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1980s | |
Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: 'Lawrence of Arabia', British in Romania Oldness, John Glenn, Mr. Peeps, Alison
Original Lyrics: 'Lawrence of Arabia', British Beatlemania, Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
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Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: All to Simmingwiy, hail all for Kennedy Chugga-chugga, 'Psycho', Belgians in the Congo
Original Lyrics: U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy, Chubby Checker, 'Psycho', Belgians in the Congo
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Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: Berk control, hutchy Minn, Richard Nixon back again Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, hope rock Bagen Reagen, Palestine, terror on the airline
Original Lyrics: Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again, Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock, Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
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Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: Bob Dole, Budapest, Alan, 'Batman', Prucechev Minzy Space making haste, chocolate in the sewage
Original Lyrics: Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev, Princess Grace, 'Peyton Place', trouble in the Suez
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Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: Bright the holly, 'Ben Hur', space monkey happier Hula Hoops, Castro, Edson with the no-go
Original Lyrics: Buddy Holly, 'Ben Hur', space monkey, Mafia, hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no go
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Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: Einstein, James Dean, Buckland's got a winning team Davy Crockett, 'Peter Pan', Elvis 'comes a Disney lad
Original Lyrics: Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team Davy Crockett, 'Peter Pan', Elvis Presley, Disneyland
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Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: Eisenhower back scene, England's got a new queen For she ever sent a lot, and Saphire a-goodbye-a
Original Lyrics: Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen Marcano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
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Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: Harris Tuman, Doris Day, Red Chai and Johnnie Ray Sow Specific, Balti Weather, Jogi Maggio
Original Lyrics: Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
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Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: Hemingway, Ackman, 'Stranger in a Strange Land' Oolin, Berlin, Mayafitz Invasion
Original Lyrics: Hemingway, Eichmann, 'Stranger in a Strange Land', Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: Hope Paul, Malcolm X, British polticians, sex
Original Lyrics: Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
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Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: Joe's a staller, another card, NASA with a copier Brokenbeller, Capenilla, Communists Rock
Original Lyrics: Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
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Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: Jump a cafe, Richard Nixon stood under the television
Original Lyrics: Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
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Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: Little Rock, Mantounak, Mickey Man and Caramac Spun in, Chou a-Lai, 'Bridge on the River Kwai'
Original Lyrics: Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac, Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, 'Bridge on the River Kwai'
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Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: Loads to gone, shout a goal, California, baseball Stark with the homicide turning up the little nigh
Original Lyrics: Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide
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Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: Rosenberg's sex bomb, Summer ray, Cath and John Round up the kimmenrye, have a catchy rim and lie
Original Lyrics: Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, 'The King and I' and 'The Catcher in the Rye'
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Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: Roy Con, hopper on, Hostanini, darquon In Bin, Hoop Fall's 'Rock Around the Clock'
Original Lyrics: Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron Dien Bien Phu Falls, 'Rock Around the Clock'
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Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: Willy Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, aid stratch Bernie gets Hypodermics on the shore, China's under martial law Original Lyrics: 'Wheel of Fortune', Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide,
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law |
Bruce Springsteen's, "A Brillant Disguise"
Misheard Lyrics: Is that you, baby, or just a brick in disguise?
Original Lyrics: Is that you, baby, or just a brillant disguise?
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Duran Duran's, "Girls On Film"
Misheard Lyrics: Don't go Bill
Original Lyrics: Girls on film
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Electric Light Orchestra's, "Twilight"
Misheard Lyrics: With your head held high and your scarlet flies
you came down to me from the open skies. Original Lyrics: With your head held high and your scarlet lies
you came down to me from the open skies. |
Nine Inch Nails', "Head Like aHole"
Misheard Lyrics: Got money lets go dancing on the backs of the booze
Original Lyrics: God money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised
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Robbie Dupree's, "Steal Away"
Misheard Lyrics: Come tease me. Why don't you please me?
Original Lyrics: Don't tease me. Why don't you please me?
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Rush's, "Subdivisions"
Misheard Lyrics: Unlike Mars we drift into the city
Original Lyrics: Drawn like moths we drift into the city
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Stan Ridgway's, "Camouflage"
Misheard Lyrics: I was often glad to see this big marine
Original Lyrics: I was awfully glad to see this big marine
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TV Commercial's, "Rock Lords"
Misheard Lyrics: Rock Lords: Power from living rocks.
Original Lyrics: Rock Lords: Powerful living rocks.
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2000s | |
Dir En Grey's, "Machevellism"
Misheard Lyrics: Hurry up! Hurry up! Wrist-cut show!
Original Lyrics: Hayaku! Hayaku! Wrist cut show!
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Fergie's, "Big Girls Don't Cry"
Misheard Lyrics: The smell of your stinky finger's on me now.
Original Lyrics: The smell of your skin lingers on me now
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Gazette's, "Agony"
Misheard Lyrics: this is a masturbation
Original Lyrics: This is the last copulation
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Gazette's, "Burial aplicant"
Misheard Lyrics: Hello, my dear.Give me jelly.
Original Lyrics: Hello, my dear.Kill me gently.
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Gorilaz's, "Feel Good Inc."
Misheard Lyrics: So don't stop get it, get it
until you jet ahead Original Lyrics: So don't stop get it, get it
until you're cheddar header |
Hedley's, "Trip"
Misheard Lyrics: and your heart is white as snow, and I don't ever follow through
Original Lyrics: and the hardest part is knowing I don't ever follow through
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Linkin Park's, "Somewhere I Belong"
Misheard Lyrics: I want a hell, I want a hell where the satan will take him
Original Lyrics: I wanna heal, I wanna feel what I thought was never real
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Nyantic cafe's, "my favorite beat"
Misheard Lyrics: kill me.
Original Lyrics: keep kin
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Sum 41's, "Underclass Hero"
Misheard Lyrics: We’re the saints of degeneration
We don’t owe anyone an explanation F**k the leaders We don’t need this We're the elite of just alright Original Lyrics: We’re the saints of degeneration
We don’t owe anyone an explanation F**k elitists We don’t need this We're the elite of just alright |
Tegan & sara's, "Are You Ten Years Ago?"
Misheard Lyrics: The pressure of this life is slow
You can't behead a cannibal Original Lyrics: The pressure of this life is so
You can't be held accountable |
misc | |
Green Day's, "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams"
Misheard Lyrics: But it's home to me and I'll walk alone
Original Lyrics: But it's home to me, and I walk alone.
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xmas | |
Traditional's, "O Holy Night"
Misheard Lyrics: Long lived the world in sin and terror pining
Original Lyrics: Long lived the world in sin and error biding.
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