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
misheard lyrics for both on the same page (provided the song title was spelt the same both times, and
misheard lyrics have been submitted for both!).
Boney M - The Greatest Hits album at Amazon.com
Nanny cool
Daddy Cool
The Story: I was like, "Fran Drescher really did inspire myself from this song". - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Boney M's,
"Hooray Hooray It's a Holi-holiday"
Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holly Hobbie Day
What a world of fun for everyone, holi-holiday
Hooray! Hooray!
It's a Holly-Hobbie Day
Sing a summer song, skip along, holly hobby day
It's a holly hobbie day
Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday
What a world of fun for everyone, holi-holiday
Hooray! Hooray!
It's a Holi-Holiday
Sing a summer song, skip along, holi-holiday
It's a holi-holiday
The Story: I think that my sister was the one who misheard this lyric. Holly Hobbie is a fictional character from books, dolls, and art and craft products. - Submitted by: Scott McPhee
Jivota mina s kef
She was the meanest cat
The Story: The "J" in the first word in the misword lyric is read like "s" in "casual". This is a phrase in Bulgarian language (phonetic), which means something like: "The life passed with pleasure" - Submitted by: Maria Ivanova
But the Kazachouk, he danced really wunderbar.
But the Kaiser chuckled hey that's really wunderbar.
The Story: The reason people seem to mishear this is because the backup singers kind of tail off singing kaiser chuckled The kaiser chuckled wunderbar makes sense because Kaiser Wilhelm ii would have chuckled at this man carrying on around the Tsar's rule and wunderbar is German for wonderful so it is sort of a flippant remark on Russian politics. - Submitted by: John Marshall
La La Ecstasy other drugs and LSD
Ra Ra Rasputin
Lover of the Russian queen
The Story: When I was younger and just discovering names of drugs, they were always in mind. When you hear this song over a s***ty intercom while just learning what ecstasy is, you'll understand. - Submitted by: A Human
Ra Ra Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine,
There was a cat who peed on the wall
Ra-Ra-Rasputin, lover of the Russian Queen
The Story: I was young...thought that was the lyrics....and still seems like it today when I listen again. - Submitted by: TTT
Ra Ra Rasputin, Wasche in die Waschmaschin'.
Ra Ra Rasputin, lover of the Russian Queen.
The Story: German for "clothes into the washing machine". Still singing it whenever filling my washing machine, ever since I heard the song as a child who didn't know much English. Only recently heard of the actual lyrics. - Submitted by: unci
Thank you for the fax from ABC.
Thank you for the facts from A to Z.
The Story: My brother and I were sitting in the car one day and this song was on the radio. My brother turns to me with a baffled look on his face and says 'I don't get it, they didn't have fax machines back then!' - Submitted by: Little Ms. Queer
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