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!).
Here Comes the Hotstepper album at Amazon.com
Anyone test will hear the Valley of Sins
Anyone tests will hear the Fat Lady Sing
The Story: This one is hard to pick up without listening to the track far too much. Basically, I heard it at a party where I wasn't really paying attention to the music and then decided to sing it the next day. I couldn't help it that Ini's accent was so heavy. - Submitted by: The Haz-Man
Here comes the hotstepper (turn it on)
I'm the leprechaun dancer (turn it on).
Here comes the hotstepper (murderer)
I'm the lyrical gangster (murderer).
The Story: I actually thought this song was called 'Leprechaun Dancer', and tried to find it at music stores for ages with no success. It's still a really good song, but my cute image of rock-star leprechauns has just gone down the drain. :( - Submitted by: Skylark
Here comes the hotstepper (tur-lala)
I’m little old gangsta (tut-lala)
Here comes the hotstepper
Murderer,
I'm the lyrical gangsta.
The Story: Heard this song as a kid with an extremely limited background in English at the time. Didn’t know what “murderer” meant (hadn’t even heard the word before then). The lyric sounded like musical syllables, to me - Submitted by: A G
Here comes the hotstepper berderuer, Im the lyrical dancer berderur.
Here comes the hotstepper murderer, Im the lyrical gangsta murderer.
The Story: I was just singing this song in the car and I was just singing and someone looks at me in the car and goes.... "umm... ur singing it all wrong!" So i just listened and found out the real words really easily! - Submitted by: Trista
Here comes the hotstepper berderuer, Im the lyrical dancer berderur.
Here comes the hotstepper murderer, Im the lyrical gansta murderer.
The Story: I was just singing this song in the car and I was just singing and someone looks at me in the car and goes.... "umm... ur singing it all wrong!" So i just listened and found out the real words really easily! - Submitted by: Trista
Here comes the hotstepper, turn it all up!
Here comes the hotstepper, murderer!
The Story: I just found out the right lyrics when looking up another misheard part of this song! - Submitted by: Scandia
Pick up the penguin from the airport
Pick up the crew in-a de area
The Story: Let's just say it is not the only line in this song that I misheard! - Submitted by: Scandia
New entries in this section are currently reviewed by Brian Kelly. Previous editors (if any) are listed on the editors page.
