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!).
Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon album at Amazon.com
I bought a cow and horsey horsey.
Ah! Bowakawa, pousse, pousse
The Story: Lyrics heard by a 10 year old that I found charming. - Submitted by: Kelly
Eating chocolate cake in the bag.
Eating chocolate cake in the bath
The Story: It was in the news years ago that John and Yoko sat in the bath forever eating chocolate cake - Submitted by: celia
I'm just a yellow sky
I'm just a jealous guy
The Story: When I was in Thailand on a jungle trek, One of the Thai trek guides kept asking for a woman with a guitar to play 'Yellow Sky' We hadn't heard of it even though he insisted that John Lennon wrote it. We understood when we asked him to sing some of it and he said' I'm just a Yellow Sky' I'm not sure if just his pronunciation was bad or if that's what he was really saying. That's how we heard it anyway. - Submitted by: kim rogers
Nobody told me it would taste like beans
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
The Story: This was on the radio one day and my friend's nephew, age 2, said, 'What would taste like beans?' - Submitted by: Cathy L. Longhurst
Nobody told me they'd seen Lassie.
Nobody told me there'd be days like these.
The Story: These misheard lyrics were uncorrected for about 15 years.... almost sad I found out what the real lyrics were. - Submitted by: Daniel Mellmann
Steal my meat.
Stand by me.
The Story: My daughter wanted to know why John would want someone to steal his meat and why he would write a song about it. - Submitted by: Trish
I really love them twice to roll.
I really love to watch them roll.
The Story: When I thought John was saying 'I really love them twice to roll,' I thought he meant that he loved to watch the wheels make two complete revolutions. - Submitted by: Dorly
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