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 | |
Beach Boys', "Barbara Ann"
Misheard Lyrics: Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, baran
Original Lyrics: Ba, ba, ba, ba, Barbara Ann
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The Beatles', "Come Together"
Misheard Lyrics: Hold you in his armchair, you can feel his disease
Original Lyrics: Hold you in his arms, yeah, you can feel his disease
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The Beatles', "The Ballad of John & Yoko"
Misheard Lyrics: Coffee early plane back to London
Fifty eight comes tight in a sack Original Lyrics: Caught the early plane back to London
Fifty acorns tied in a sack |
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1970s | |
Chris Calina's, "Ford commercial (1977)"
Misheard Lyrics: The Fords are dunkin'
Original Lyrics: The Fords are comin'
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Elton John's, "Tower of Babel"
Misheard Lyrics: Snow, semen, and ivory on town.
Original Lyrics: Stone, cement, and ivory on top.
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Simon & Garfunkel's, "My Little Town"
Misheard Lyrics: We have nothing but the dead in mind Back in my little town
Original Lyrics: Leaving nothing but the dead and dying Back in my little town
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Tim Curry's, "Baby Love"
Misheard Lyrics: Ooh, need to hold you once again my love, feel your warmth embrace my love
Original Lyrics: Ooh, need to hold you once again my love, feel your warm embrace my love
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Village People's, "Y.M.C.A."
Misheard Lyrics: I said young man, put your butt on the shelf
Original Lyrics: I said young man, put your pride on the shelf
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1980s | |
Bon Jovi's, "You Give Love A Bad Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Angel's smile on your lips
Murrayed nails on your fingertips Original Lyrics: You paint your smile on your lips
Blood red nails on your fingertips |
Cyndi Lauper's, "Girls Just Want To Have Fun"
Misheard Lyrics: Oh mama deep, we're not the first jellied bones
Original Lyrics: Oh mama dear, we're not the fortunate ones.
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Cyndi Lauper's, "Girls Just Want To Have Fun"
Misheard Lyrics: The phone rings in the middle of the night
My body yells, "what you gonna do with your life?" Original Lyrics: The phone rings in the middle of the night
My father asks, "What you gonna do with your life?" |
Dire Straits', "Money For Nothing"
Misheard Lyrics: We've got the movies refrigerators
Original Lyrics: We've got to move these refrigerators
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Hall & Oates', "Adult Education"
Misheard Lyrics: What they need is a dull education
Original Lyrics: What they need is adult education
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Human League's, "Mirror Man"
Misheard Lyrics: Says he's a big ball fan.
Original Lyrics: Says he's a people fan.
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Meat Loaf's, "Dead Ringer For Love"
Misheard Lyrics: Ever since I can remember
You were hanging round the doorway Original Lyrics: Ever since I can remember
You were hanging round this joint |
Michael Jackson's, "Thriller"
Misheard Lyrics: Now is the time for you & I to cut or blow together
Original Lyrics: Now is the time for you and I to cuddle close together
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Pet Shop Boys', "West End Girls"
Misheard Lyrics: In a west end town, a dead end world The east end boys are west end girls.
Original Lyrics: In a west end town, a dead end world The east end boys and west end girls.
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1990s | |
Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds', "3 Lions 98"
Misheard Lyrics: 3 lines on a shelf
Original Lyrics: 3 lions on a shirt
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Boyzone's, "Key to My Life"
Misheard Lyrics: Rain on the wind uncovers the trees
Original Lyrics: Rain on the window covers the trace
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Edwyn Collins', "A Girl Like You"
Misheard Lyrics: Too many quota singers
Not heed no quota songs Original Lyrics: Too many protest singers
Not enough protest songs. |
Everything But the Girl's, "Missing"
Misheard Lyrics: Could you be there?
Original Lyrics: Could you be dead?
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Jamiroquai's, "Cosmic Girl"
Misheard Lyrics: So I asked her for another of the same
Original Lyrics: So I asked her for her number all the same
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Janet Jackson feat. Q-Tip's, "Got 'Til It's Gone"
Misheard Lyrics: Don't know, seem to go, & you don't know what you got til lymph gone
Original Lyrics: Don't it always seem to go, & you don't know what you got til it's gone
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Joan Osborne's, "One of Us"
Misheard Lyrics: Yeah, yeah, God, it is great
Original Lyrics: Yeah, yeah God is great
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Meat Loaf's, "I'd Lie for You (And That's The Truth)"
Misheard Lyrics: Believe me, baby, got your neck on your muscle
Original Lyrics: Believe me, baby, got your name carved on my soul
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Meat Loaf's, "I'd Lie for You (And That's The Truth)"
Misheard Lyrics: I'd never below a blue
Original Lyrics: I'd never paint your world blue
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Meat Loaf's, "Not A Dry Eye In The House"
Misheard Lyrics: Listen any universal
Original Lyrics: Listen & you'll hear the sound
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Michelle Gayle's, "Sweetness"
Misheard Lyrics: Folks sound chippin' & I'm losing my mind
Walking in circles & I'm talking in rhymes But I can't help it cos it happens each time when yorkie Whispering words & mumbling a whack Original Lyrics: Folks say I'm trippin' & I'm losing my mind
Walking in circles & I'm talking in rhymes But I can't help it cos it happens each time when you're near Whispering words that melt me like wax |
Oasis', "Champagne Supernova"
Misheard Lyrics: Can't believe the landslide
Original Lyrics: Caught beneath the land slide
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Oasis', "Some Might Say"
Misheard Lyrics: Some might say that sunshine follows Sunday
Though its attitude a man who can outshine Original Lyrics: Some might say that sunshine follows thunder
Go and tell it to the man who cannot shine |
Savage Garden's, "I Want You"
Misheard Lyrics: Like a chip of cherry cola
Original Lyrics: Like a chic-a-cherry cola
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Savage Garden's, "To the Moon and Back"
Misheard Lyrics: Summer and a private plate
She packs her fag from outer space Original Lyrics: Summer in a private place
She packs her bag from outer space |
Steps', "To Be Your Hero"
Misheard Lyrics: I'd bomb heaven and earth, In order to save you,
Original Lyrics: I'd move heaven and earth, In order to save you,
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The Cranberries', "Zombie"
Misheard Lyrics: Eearhay, eearhay, salami, salami
Original Lyrics: In your head, in your head, Zombie, Zombie.
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The Cranberries', "Zombie"
Misheard Lyrics: It's the same old team
Original Lyrics: It's the same old theme.
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The Rolling Stones', "Love Is Strong"
Misheard Lyrics: You make me hot, you make me weep
Original Lyrics: You make me hard, you make me weak
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Tori Amos', "Professional Widow (Its Got To Be Big) [Armand Van"
Misheard Lyrics: Holly bring it close to my...
Holly bring it close to my lips yeah Scabby vig Scabby vig Original Lyrics: Honey bring yourself close to my...
Honey bring yourself close to my lips yeah It's gotta be big It's gotta be big |
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2000s | |
Alphabeat's, "The Spell"
Misheard Lyrics: Insannability, that brings me closer to you
Original Lyrics: It's an ability that brings me closer to you
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Atomic Kitten's, "The Tide Is High"
Misheard Lyrics: The tiger's eye
Original Lyrics: The tide is high
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Britney Spears', "Criminal"
Misheard Lyrics: Uh oh, I know, shalecko, but no
Original Lyrics: All I know, should let go, but no
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Eminem's, "We Made You"
Misheard Lyrics: What's Ellen Degeneres have that I don't, are you tellin' me tetanus?
Original Lyrics: What's Ellen Degeneres have that I don't, are you tellin' me tenderness?
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Lady Gaga's, "I Like It Rough"
Misheard Lyrics: Brown girl wipes her tears with silver lines
Original Lyrics: Prom girl wipes her tears with silver lines
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Lady Gaga's, "I Like It Rough"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm a hard girl, loving me's like straightening curves
Original Lyrics: I'm a hard girl, loving me's like straightening curls
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Scissor Sisters', "I Can't Decide"
Misheard Lyrics: Curled up tight & now it's rotten
Original Lyrics: Curled up, died & now it's rotten
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Scissor Sisters', "I Can't Decide"
Misheard Lyrics: I could bury you alive
But you might crawl out with the night & kill me Original Lyrics: I could bury you alive
But you might crawl out with a knife & kill me |
2010s | |
Lana Del Rey's, "Music to Watch Boys To"
Misheard Lyrics: Travertine and living single
It never felt that right to me Original Lyrics: Velveteen and living single
It never felt that right to me |
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country | |
jeanita's, "Green Green Grass of Home"
Misheard Lyrics: Down the lane I walk, and there runs Mary. Her golden lips like cherries
Original Lyrics: Down the road I look, and there runs Mary
Hair of gold, and lips like cherries. |
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