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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Gordon Lightfoot - Complete Greatest Hits album at Amazon.com
The mornin' after glory from my head down to my shoes
Every highway, that means slip away
Slip away from you
or
The mornin' after glowin' from my head down to my shoes
Every highway, that means slip away
Slip away from you.
The mornin' after blues from my head down to my shoes
Carefree highway, let me slip away
Slip away on you.
The Story: For most of the time I've been acquainted with this song, I was sure I'd been mishearing 'glowin' ' as 'glory'. I was about ready to submit the first mishearing only, with 'glowin' ' indicated in the real lyrics. But just to make sure, I checked lyrics sites, many of which cite 'blues', but none of which cite 'glowin' ' for that word. So I realize both my initial mishearing and what I assumed the actual word there to be were both in fact mishearings! - Submitted by: Connie Brady
Trained beaver
Dream Weaver
The Story: About five minutes after this song stopped playing during a long drive, my 6 year-old son piped up from the back seat 'Why did that man sing about a trained beaver?' Once we figured out what song he was talking about, we laughed 'til there were tears running down our faces. - Submitted by: Tom
They are the ghosts of gay porn
They are the ghosts of Cape Horn
The Story: I've always liked Lightfoot, at least his major ballads like Edmund Fitzgerald and Railroad trilogy, so when I saw the Gord's Gold II cd on sale for half price I was quick to pick it up. The first time I put it on I wasn't paying a lot of attention to it, so the song was half over before it really clicked for me that something was very wrong with what I was hearing, and beginning to sing along to. I skipped it back to the beginning, and dammit, he was saying 'gay porn'. I finally had to check the CD case for the title of the song, at which point I felt a lot better. - Submitted by: Ed C
Just like a paperback novel
The kind that just don't sell.
Just like a paperback novel
The kind that drug stores sell.
The Story: This song was out when I was in college, majoring in journalism. I just figured Lightfoot was looking at that novel from a publisher's perspective! - Submitted by: Howard Glazer
Sometimes at Better Day Kids'
And I'll find you've been creeping and I'm not that stiff
Sometimes, a kid gets a shake
And I'll find you've been creeping and I'm feeling okay.
Sundown, ya better take care
If I find you been creepin' round my back stairs
Sometimes I think it's a shame
When I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
The Story: I just imagined it was about a really paranoid guy who would hang out at a fast food place called "Better Day Kids'" and tremble with fear as customers would come and go. I could never figure out what was so scary about fast food. - Submitted by: Boris B
All around the looking glass, dancing to The Cure
Sweeping out the house with a fine-toothed comb.
All around the looking glass, dancing to a tune
Sweeping out the house with a fine-toothed comb.
The Story: I wondered why they were obsessed with just the one band. - Submitted by: Carolee
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