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Bobby Vee's, "Rubber Ball"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I'm gonna rub a ball
Monkey-bounce right back to you.
The Real Lyrics:
And like a rubber ball
I come bouncin' back to you.
The Story: My friend kept singing these lines, with the aid of some heavy inebriation, while we were mucking around with radio tuners and happened to land on a station playing a marathon of golden oldies. The next day I asked her how one can monkey bounce after rubbing balls. No surprise that she couldn't remember what she had said at all the other night, let alone what she sang so looked at me as if I was a psycho. - Submitted by: Devil Jones
Bobby Vee's, "Rubber Ball"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I'm like a rubber boy.
The Real Lyrics:
I'm like a rubber ball.
The Story: My ex-partner's father misheard this as 'I'm like a rubber boy'. Whether he meant a pharmacist selling condoms or a seller of kinky rubber gear, I don't know! - Submitted by: pickle*
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