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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Geraldyne
Cherokee!
The Story: I am usually pretty good with lyrics, I told my girlfriend what I heard she misheard Squeeze my dick instead of Strange magic from the ELO song. - Submitted by: Al
the white ice cream in search of coal
The white mans greed in search of gold
The Story: The story behind this is I was listening to europe one day with my daughter who was about 5 at the time and i realised this was what she was singing funny but cute too lol - Submitted by: kathy wilton
The fire of Tuntain
The final countdown
The Story: A friend of mine found out he had misheard the lyrics for about 10 years, when he couldnt find the song 'Fire of Tuntain' on the Internet a couple of years ago. He couldn't understand why we laughed when he told us of his 'searching problems'. - Submitted by: Haakon Hoff Jørgensen
There´s a fire downtown
It´s the final countdown
The Story: Hehehe...my friend had a boyfriend that thought the song was actually like this and we didn´t correct him. Then at one party he got up on stage and sang that song and everybody burst into laughter but he just thought he was so funny and just kept going. - Submitted by: Lilja Katrín Gunnarsdóttir
Europe's,
"The Final Countdown"
'Cause maybe they 've Sinas.
'Cause maybe they've seen us.
The Story: When we were young, my brother and I thought they sang about visiting another planet, because the residents over there might have soda drinks and chips to welcome us. - Submitted by: (G)H. E.
Europe's,
"The Final Countdown"
It happened to Beavis (Beavis)
We're heading to Venus (Venus)
The Story: My nephew was in a make-shift-garage band back in 2007. They were all in high school, they had their first of many "debut" concerts at a local festival, they were so out of tune. The guitarist had arrived mid-way through the song (traffic was a b**ch that day), so my nephew (the lead singer) had to sing his own back up despite having a heavy Eastern-European accent. When he got to the aforementioned line, he made it sound like "It Happened To Beavis". When I heard that line I clearly remember thinking of Beavis from "Beavis and Butthead" beat up and bruised in the hospital. It was a bad band... - Submitted by: Joaquin Noff
Europe's,
"The Final Countdown"
It's the final chapter.
It's the final countdown.
The Story: I asked my roommate if he could play 'The Final Chapter' on his computer. He didn't know what I was talking about. I then hummed the infamous mondegreen, and he instantly knew the song. I was quite embarrassed. - Submitted by: John Beety
Europe's,
"The Final Countdown"
It's the fire downtown.
It's the final countdown.
The Story: I thought it was about some people who were going to spend an exciting night downtown and compared their fun with a fire. When English isn't your native language, these things happen. - Submitted by: christian
Europe's,
"The Final Countdown"
We're heading for peanuts...
We're heading for Venus...
The Story: No particularly story. It just sounded like that. - Submitted by: Victoria
Europe's,
"The Final Countdown"
We're heading for penis, penis
We're heading for Venus, Venus
The Story: Venus sounded like penis - Submitted by: CJ Etelomar
There are more Europe misheard lyrics available.
New entries in this section are currently reviewed by Brian Kelly. Previous editors (if any) are listed on the editors page.
