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
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The Very Best of Cream album at Amazon.com
She's some kind of demon dusting in the flew
She's some kind of demon messing in the glue.
The Story: I first heard flue was not only influenza but also a stove pipe, and it almost made sense. Dusty place isn't it? Then I learned flew is a fishing net. Try and dust that one! Thus flew came in reasonably as well, groggy times as they were back then. Of cause the demon messes in the glue, what else? Surprised that it comes to me so late. Been listening to this piece for forty years now. - Submitted by: Felix
And some d***head, rests his knees, oh, goodbye window.
At the platform, restless diesels, goodbye window.
The Story: The year this album came out, Randy, an older guy who had a band up the street, sang the same lyrics I heard. - Submitted by: Dawin Corvid
I'll wait and f*** you when the trains come by.
I'll wait in the queue when the trains come back.
The Story: I was still new to sex at the time, and rather furtive about it--wouldn't you wait until the train was going by, so no one would hear you going about it? Since then, I've been to Britain a number of times, and now know what a queue is. - Submitted by: Jim Ferguson
Kurt von D***head
Platform ticket
The Story: I was with my parents and a few of my dad's work colleagues in a nice English pub when I was 15. They were talking about Eric Clapton, then I said, 'He must really hate the Germans and the Nazis.' When they asked why, I said because the song 'The White Room' contains the words 'Kurt von D***head'. - Submitted by: Francine N Furter
Platform d***head, restless measles
Platform ticket, restless diesels
The Story: Whenever I heard this song on the radio, I wouldn't sing the 'platform ticket' line because I thought it said, 'Platfrom d***head' I was afraid my parents would get P.O.'d for me saying that. Then I looked up the lyrics in a song book and finally found out what Jack Bruce was singing! - Submitted by: Ummm. . . Chef?
You're no white dude,
big black cousin at the station
In a white room,
black curtains, at the station
The Story: I thought this song was about black pride. It came out in the 70's when I was a new immigrant. I thought it was a message of how one should be themselves and not something they're not. Then I found out just five years ago what it really was. My wife laughed her head off. - Submitted by: Zarir
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