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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!).
Led Zeppelin IV (aka ZOSO) album at Amazon.com
Led Zeppelin's, "Black Country Woman"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Na leave it yet.
The Real Lyrics:
Naw leave it yeah!
The Story: There was a man nicknamed Yeti who said "Try and get this aeroplane on" and Plant said " Na leave it Yet" as in Yeti. Yeti was their engineer. - Submitted by: DANIEL GROVES
Led Zeppelin's, "Black Dog"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Eyes that shine burning bread
The Real Lyrics:
Lights that shine burning red
The Story: nope - Submitted by: Naomi
Led Zeppelin's, "Black Dog"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I don't know but I been told
A 3 legged woman ain't got no hole.
A 3 legged woman ain't got no hole.
The Real Lyrics:
I don't know but I been told
A big legged woman ain't got no soul.
A big legged woman ain't got no soul.
The Story: My friend sang this as we listened to the song, he wondered why I laughed. After I told him the real lyrics, he said he always wondered why it was never banned from radio. - Submitted by: Billy Nair
Led Zeppelin's, "Black Dog"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Zooba Dooba Deeebe Dow
The Real Lyrics:
Tell me what you do me now.
The Story: No explanation other than the fact that I never thought he was actually saying something, rather filling that part with jibberish. - Submitted by: Jim Reed
Led Zeppelin's, "Bron-y-aur Stomp"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Tell your friends around the world
Ain't no compainion like a blue-eyed girl.
Ain't no compainion like a blue-eyed girl.
The Real Lyrics:
Tell your friends around the world
Ain't no companion like a blue-eyed merle.
Ain't no companion like a blue-eyed merle.
The Story: Originally, I thought this song was about going to the country with your friends and some girls. I thought I heard the word 'girl'. - Submitted by: Joshua
Led Zeppelin's, "D'yer Maker"
The Misheard Lyrics:
'D'yer Maker' (not the lyrics; the actual title)
The Real Lyrics:
'Jamaica' (pronunciation of title)
The Story: Obviously we hadn't misheard the lyrics, but there was an ongoing friendly 'feud' between my friends, relatives, and myself about how to pronounce the song title. Some of us thought it was prounounced, 'dee-yer Maker'; the others thought, 'dye-yer Maker'. We were all wrong! While watching one of those biographical programs on vh1 (I believe it was 'Behind the Music') about Led Zeppelin, it was revealed that the actual pronunciation was 'Jamaica'. Taking into consideration British accents and everything, it began to make sense....especially since the song had a Carribbean feel to it! - Submitted by: norman k
Led Zeppelin's, "D'yer Maker"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Die-er Maker
The Real Lyrics:
D'yer Maker
The Story: I heard a morning TV news host mispronounce the song title. He wasn't as cool and with-it as he thought he was. - Submitted by: Moken Troll
Led Zeppelin's, "Dancing Days"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I've got a womenly nose.
The Real Lyrics:
I've got a woman who knows.
The Story: I thought they were commenting on plant- looking feminine. [Ed.'s note: Whatever that is.:/] - Submitted by: Vaness
Led Zeppelin's, "Dancing Days"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Jimmy Lewis is President
As the evening starts to glow.
As the evening starts to glow.
The Real Lyrics:
Sippin' booze is precedent
As the evening starts to glow.
As the evening starts to glow.
The Story: I had always heard the song as a little kid while my dad listened to this record. I guess I always assumed Jimmy Lewis was some political figure from the 60's that they were referring to. - Submitted by: Jim Reed
Led Zeppelin's, "Darlene"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Dow-Woody
The Real Lyrics:
Darlene
The Story: After Coda' came out, I was relly excited. I had asked a friend of mine if he had heard the song 'Darlene' yet. He wasn't sure and asked me to describe (rather try to sing) it. He recognized it as The 'Dow-Woody' song. - Submitted by: Ben
Led Zeppelin's, "Fool in the Rain"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Now I will stand in the rain on the corner
I'll watch the people go jumpin' downtown mound
I'll watch the people go jumpin' downtown mound
The Real Lyrics:
Now I will stand in the rain on the corner
I'll watch the people go shuffling downtown
I'll watch the people go shuffling downtown
The Story: I swear to god at least part of this is not a mis-heard lyric. If you listen to the song, Robert Plant really does say 'downtown Mound,' which is the name of my home town (Mound, MN) and we always sang it that way and I still do to this day. And I heard the song a few weeks ago and it still sounds like he's saying 'downtown Mound.' And until I hear from Robert (or at least a direct emissary) I will continue to insist that these are the correct lyrics...so there! :-) - Submitted by: Liz Williams
Led Zeppelin's, "Goin' To California"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Goin' to California with an acorn in my heart.
The Real Lyrics:
Goin' to California with an achin' in my heart.
The Story: My friends and I sung 'acorn' to these lyrics for years before we figured out the real words. - Submitted by: S. Westra
Led Zeppelin's, "I Can't Quit You Baby"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I know you want my wand inside.
The Real Lyrics:
I know you are my one desire.
The Story: Back in the 70s when I was singing in a R&R band, I had to figure out the lyrics by listening to scratchy vinyl. So, this is just one example of what came out of my mouth night after night. - Submitted by: Steven Stuart
Led Zeppelin's, "Immigrant Song"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Always sleep with nothing on
I wanna go where people twist and shout
I wanna go where people twist and shout
The Real Lyrics:
On we sweep, with a threshing oar
Our only goal will be the western shore
Our only goal will be the western shore
The Story: It's obvious they're talking about Vikings- who lived in the north where it's cold. It would make sense that they sleep with nothing on, since they wanted to prove they were tough and could handle the cold! - Submitted by: Amy
Led Zeppelin's, "Immigrant Song"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Always sweet, refreshing, ahh!
The Real Lyrics:
On we sweep with threshing oar.
The Story: I play this with my band, and for a long time we would see the drummer pretend to hold something up during this part of the song, and we asked him what it was. 'It's a soda can! 'Refreshing, Ahh!'' Obviously his version has more commercial potential than the original. - Submitted by: bunga
Led Zeppelin's, "Immigrant Song"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Come to the land of ice cream cones.
The Real Lyrics:
We come from the land of ice and snow.
The Story: It was a disc jockey who misunderstood and quoted these lyrics in his introduction.Gives a whole other picture, doesn't it? - Submitted by: Liz Stine
Led Zeppelin's, "Rock And Roll"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Get it on down to the f***in' road.
The Real Lyrics:
It's been a long time since I rock and rolled.
The Story: I heard this song in a TV ad for Cadillac, and the above misheard lyrics seem clearly to jump out at me. I wondered why the heck Cadillac would use such a song in its ad. - Submitted by: Pepper Jones
Led Zeppelin's, "Rock N' Roll"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Spirilon time since I rock 'n' roll.
The Real Lyrics:
It's been a long time since I rock 'n' roll.
The Story: Once a guy asked my friend's band to play the song 'Spirilon'. - Submitted by: Jarbas
Led Zeppelin's, "Rock and Roll"
The Misheard Lyrics:
It's been a long time since I drove this row
The Real Lyrics:
It's been a long time since I rock and rolled
The Story: - Submitted by: Mr. Loop
Led Zeppelin's, "Rock and Roll"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Timmy McVeigh, Timmy McVeigh, Timmy McVeigh.
Babe, he's where I come from.
Babe, he's where I come from.
The Real Lyrics:
Carry me back, carry me back, carry me back.
Baby, where I come from.
Baby, where I come from.
The Story: Yeah, I was singing this song really loud at a karaoke bar and I didn't bother to look at the monitor thinking I knew the song. But when I got to that part everybody just got dead silent. Then my boyfriend started cracking up laughing. I didn't even finish the song. I just walked off stage. I always wondered why Zeppelin would sing a song about the Oklahoma City Bomber years before it happened. Duh! - Submitted by: Saafire*
Led Zeppelin's, "Stairway To Heaven"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And every wino down the road
The Real Lyrics:
And as we wind on down the road
The Story: I just, for the longest time, thought it was kinda odd that a very successful, gentlemanly English chap would have any frame of reference about places like 'skid row', or the bowery, or any decrepit place of seedy alcoholics. - Submitted by: Kevin Neslund
Led Zeppelin's, "Stairway To Heaven"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And there's a rhino down the road.
The Real Lyrics:
And as we wind on down the road.
The Story: My friend had a Zeppelin poster on the wall with the lyrics to the chorus of Stairway to Heaven on it. Another 'friend' saw it one day and then told us what he had always thought it was. He then decided that he was small and pathetic and decided to end his life soon after - Submitted by: Andy Burito
Led Zeppelin's, "Stairway To Heaven"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And there's a whino down the road.
The Real Lyrics:
And as we wind on down the road
The Story: I was playing guitar with my husband when he started to sing this classic oldy. I darn near hit the floor laughing when I heard him sing those mislyrics. - Submitted by: Jo-d
Led Zeppelin's, "Stairway To Heaven"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Following the stairway to heaven
The Real Lyrics:
Buying the stairway to heaven
The Story: It was actually my friend who thought buying was following. He was so convinced that he bet me and a group of our friends a total of $180.00 dollars on the lyrics. We proceeded to look them up via internet and he was down 180. - Submitted by: brett smith
Led Zeppelin's, "Stairway To Heaven"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I should have stolen a hot stone.
The Real Lyrics:
Our shadows taller than our souls.
The Story: I was supposed to be transcribing the lyrics of this song for my German exchange partner who wanted to know what they were. Because I'm English, she thought I'd understood them. Unfortunately, we weren't using the original version, but some weird thing featuring the Red Army Choir singing the 'it makes me wonder' bit. It was actually really funny, but quite difficult to follow, and therefore what I actually transcribed was pretty much gibberish in places. Although the saddest thing is that I got this line wrong again when listening to the original. - Submitted by: Zelda
Led Zeppelin's, "Stairway to Heaven"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And she's flying a stairway to heaven
The Real Lyrics:
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
The Story: My older sister was playing 'Stairway to Heaven' and I heard the above lyric and I asked her,'How can you fly a stairway?' She just looked at me and burst out laughing, then promptly corrected me. - Submitted by: DBaum
Led Zeppelin's, "Stairway to Heaven"
The Misheard Lyrics:
If there's a muscle in your head loose,
you'll be a lawman
you'll be a lawman
The Real Lyrics:
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow,
don't be alarmed now
don't be alarmed now
The Story: It wasn't me who misheard the lyric, it was my husband. We argued about it for months until I finally accessed a website and printed the lyrics for him. He still insists he's right and Led Zeppelin is wrong! - Submitted by: Barb Bavier
Led Zeppelin's, "Stairway to Heaven"
The Misheard Lyrics:
When she gets there she knows
It restores our old clothes.
It restores our old clothes.
The Real Lyrics:
When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed.
If the stores are all closed.
The Story: This is my best friends error, and he actually bet me money that he was right! Easiest 5 bucks I've ever made. - Submitted by: Salvatore
Led Zeppelin's, "The Battle Of Evermore"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Dance in the dark of night
Run like a fly.
Run like a fly.
The Real Lyrics:
Dance in the dark of night
Sing to the morning light.
Sing to the morning light.
The Story: My friend started singing 'run like a fly' in a really high pitched voice. My only reaction was, 'What the h***?' Then he started singing Sandy Denny's line in 'The Battle of Evermore'. I then gave him the correct lyrics after having a good laugh. Anyway, how he got that from 'sing to the morning light' is beyond me. - Submitted by: Wadded Beef
Led Zeppelin's, "When The Levee Breaks"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The mean old lady
The Real Lyrics:
If it keeps on rainin'
The Story: My boyfriend,(we'll call him Kevin) who I have known for years and have often times listened to this song with, suddenly belted out this mis-heard lyric at a party the other night. I have told Kevin about what the song means to me more than once and in all our discussions about the song, 'the mean old lady' never came up. He had always thought she must have been the plantation owner's wife and had ordered these men out into the storm to build the levee. - Submitted by: Jen
Led Zeppelin's, "Whole Lotta Love"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You need Kool-Aid
The Real Lyrics:
You need coolin'
The Story: My best friend and I would always get into her brothers' albums (those black disc thingees that we had in the old days! lol) and we'd always sing 'You need Kool-Aid' at the beginning of 'Whole Lotta Love'... until he laughed his head off after hearing us... and told us what the words really were :) - Submitted by: Tammy R.
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