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!).
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Whenever I fall, anchovy
Whenever I fall, at your feet
The Story: My mom was watching a "Crowded House" concert on DVD, and my sister started screaming "anchovy!" at that one line. - Submitted by: Rachel
...when the world comes in, breadcrumb, breadcrumb...
...when the world comes in, they come, they come
The Story: For the longest time I couldn't understand what was being said in the chorus. I asked my friend one day, and it happened to be on, and after listening carefully, he jumped up excitedly as though he knew the lyric. He promptly exclaimed, "BREADCRUMB". We had a good laugh and it sounded as good as anything until I found it out correctly. But of course to this day, it is still, "The Breadcrumb Song". - Submitted by: Jason Coleman
Don't dream and suffer.
Don't dream it's over.
The Story: My wife was singing along with the radio. Chronic lyricosis! - Submitted by: Ronky
Hannah, Hannah!
Hey now, hey now
The Story: Today as a matter of fact, Sunday, March 4, 2007. I was in a local Publix shopping store. I heard someone sing this line, (I think it was a store employee), really off key.At first, I couldn't understand what this employee was trying to sing. Then I overheard on the store intercom the Crowded House song's actual lines. I started cracking up laughing at the person's mistake. - Submitted by: Peter
Hey ya, hey ya
Hey now, hey now
The Story: Could OutKast have been inspired by this? - Submitted by: Cody Finke
I've been feeling so mature, love
Frame me and hang me on the wall
I've been feeling so much older
Frame me and hang me on the wall
The Story: I thought he was talking about how mature he was becoming about their relationship. - Submitted by: Annie
Taste of Genesee, is like a lust for gold.
Taste of jealousy, is like a lust for gold.
The Story: I always thought it was strange to mention Genesee beer in a song. But when I was in high school, this was the beer of choice in my town. It was years later til I realised what it really said! - Submitted by: Jo
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