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.
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This page contains a list of the songs that have stories about their misheard lyrics submitted.
Song names are sorted by first letter, excluding A and The. This is sorted by song title only, not
by song title and performer. So if two different performers preformed the same song, you'll see
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Alice in Chains - Greatest Hits album at Amazon.com
Your weak will won't helper-healer-har!
Your weak will won't help her heal her heart.
The Story: My ex noticed this and asked, 'Helper-healer-har?' I never heard the song the same again, even though I never paid attention to the correct lyric. - Submitted by: Topher
But my wings have been sodomized.
And my wings have been so denied.
The Story: I was on the bus and heard a women singing this song while listening to her headphones. It took all I had not to start laughing hysterically. - Submitted by: Steve Edwardsen
Fair-weather friend
Fair well thee, Friend.
The Story: Alice in Chains are from Seattle, the weather is notoriously unfair. Hence, poetic to say that a friend would be a fair weather friend. - Submitted by: Codeman
Like the coldest winter whale
or
Like the coldest winter will
Like the coldest winter chill
The Story: I think of this song every time I play the video game, Super Mario Brothers 2, where you have to leap from one whale to another in a frozen ocean. - Submitted by: Fred
All is green but no Saint Pat's.
Army Green was no safe bet.
The Story: Long ago when the video for this song was released on MTV (yes, MTV once had VIDEOS!). My friend, Wade, and I (who were in junior high at the time) were up late drinking copious amounts of caffeine. We loved the video, and the song on the CD, but couldn't for the life of us figure out what the lyrics to this passage were. For some reason, 'all is green but no Saint Pat's' fit the Vietnam-lost-depressing theme. We found out later, to our chagrin, that we were stupid. - Submitted by: Robert Weaver
Walking tall, chicken man.
Walking tall, machine gun man.
The Story: I don't know why I actually believed this great band would sing a song about a chicken/man hybrid! Since the day my husband realized this lyric mishap on my part, he calls me from work and turns up the song on the radio at my expense. - Submitted by: Rachel Husky
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