Misheard Song Lyrics -> Stories -> Chuck Berry

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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!).


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Chuck Berry's, "Rock and Roll Music"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I took my loved one over 'cross the tracks
So we could hear 'em havin' whale attacks.
The Real Lyrics:
I took my loved one over 'cross the tracks
So we could hear the man a-wailin' sax.
The Story: I never could understand that line just from hearing the song; the above 'misheard' version is what it seemed to sound most like. Finally, when I sang it as a karaoke song, I learned the lyrics from the monitor. - Submitted by: Robert Jones
Chuck Berry's, "Roll Over Beethoven"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Roll over, Beethoven
Tell my jockey the news.
The Real Lyrics:
Roll over, Beethoven
Tell Tschaikowsky the news.
The Story: A high school friend of mine always asks a mutual friend who had a band in late 50's and early 60's to let onstage at a yearly 'oldies' charity format to sing Chuck Berry's 'Roll Over Beethoven'. Every year he belts out the same lyrics as noted above. We all die laughing and he's still not aware what he's doing. - Submitted by: Ed Brown
Chuck Berry's, "You Can Never Tell (C'est La Vie)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And now the young monsieur and madame
Have run to Taco Bell.
or
And now the young monsieur and madame
Have run to Chaque Hôtel.
The Real Lyrics:
And now the young monsieur and madame
Have rung the chapel bell.
The Story: I don't know who it was that I heard singing this when I misheard these lines. That's because I heard it in the movie "Arthur And The Invisibles", but can't find its presence acknowledged on any soundtrack listing for that movie, let alone find a listing of who sang it therein. Anyhow, my first mishearing is how the sound struck me at first, but I knew that couldn't be right; after all the song is probably older than Taco Bell. So I decided that the second misheard version above must be closer to what I actually heard. But on checking a lyrics site, I found out, not so! Neither a Taco Bell nor a hotel are involved in the real lyrics. But I did correctly hear the word "bell" after all. - Submitted by: Melissa Conway
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