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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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Queen's, "'39"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Mini-me
The Real Lyrics:
Pity me
The Story: We were in an Art class, and someone was singing along with this rather loudly. We all heard and burst out laughing. Needless to say, we now pull 'Dr Evil' poses whenever we see them! - Submitted by: Lovecat
Queen's, "'39"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Silly me
The Real Lyrics:
Pity me
The Story: Hmmm.. I was singing along to this song with my dedicated Queen-fan friend and i sang 'Silly me' louder than her and she went mental. Now every time the song is mentions she mumbles 'silly you' under her breath..:) - Submitted by: Anastasia Levine
Queen's, "'Headlong'"
The Misheard Lyrics:
He used to be a man with his d*** in his hand.
The Real Lyrics:
He used to be a man with a stick in his hand.
The Story: I was sitting in the car, and I turned my 'Innuendo' album to this track. All of the sudden I hear Freddie's voice saying this, and I was shocked. As soon as I heard it, I thought I had misheard him, then the next line 'She used to be a woman with a hotdog stand' confirmed my suspicions for me. I thought it was kind of funny, but looked up the lyrics, and no, it's 'a stick' in his hand. I think that my way actually makes more sense. - Submitted by: Sara Mercury
Queen's, "A Kind of Magic"
The Misheard Lyrics:
It's gelatin of war bells ring
The Real Lyrics:
It's challenging the doors of time
The Story: I sung it out loud. I sounded crazy. - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "A Kind of Magic"
The Misheard Lyrics:
It’s a kind of mansion
or
It’s a kind of mattress
The Real Lyrics:
It’s a kind of magic
The Story: Sounded like it was either a kind of mansion or a kind of mattress - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Queen's, "All God's People"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Butter face-up
The Real Lyrics:
Gotta face up
The Story: ...as in, the orientation in which buttered toast never lands when you drop it. - Submitted by: AdmiralMercurial
Queen's, "Another One Bites The Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Ain't no sound but the sound of speed
The Real Lyrics:
Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet
The Story: I was listening to another one bites the dust and, even though I knew most of it, there were like a few lines that I didn't know, so I read all of the lyrics, and the lyric I thought, was actually wrong. - Submitted by: Steven
Queen's, "Another One Bites The Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Another bites the duster.
The Real Lyrics:
Another one bites the dust.
The Story: My three-year-old son thought this song's title was 'The Duster Song' and kept asking us to play it. We couldn't fingure out what he meant About three months later, it came on the radio. Then, he came running in yelling, "Dad, dad! The Duster Song!" as they were singing the chorus, "Another one bites the dust(ter) and another one's gone, another on bites the dust(ter)". - Submitted by: Ed
Queen's, "Another One Bites The Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Another one fights the duck.
The Real Lyrics:
Another one bites the dust.
The Story: My little sister and I were on a car journey. When I had put this song on, she proceeded to draw me a picture of a boxing duck. In all seriousness, she sang along quite happily about fighting ducks, until I showed her the title on my ipod. She still sings about ducks, though! - Submitted by: Nat W
Queen's, "Another One Bites The Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Another one fights the duster.
The Real Lyrics:
Another one bites the dust.
The Story: My husband had a friend growing up that swore the words were not 'another one bites the dust'. To this day, he still sings them wrong. - Submitted by: Karrie
Queen's, "Another One Bites The Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Hey! Ooh tell ya! Hand the dust! I'm not adopted or Hey! Ooh tell ya! Hand the dust! I'm not a doctor
The Real Lyrics:
Hey! Ooh tell ya! And the dust! And the dust yeah!
The Story: I sung it this way at my talent show (the first one) and no one knew what I said! Anyway I think I had the most applause. - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Another One Bites The Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I'm adopted!
The Real Lyrics:
Bite the dust, yeah!
The Story: My husband and daughters had an ongoing argument about it because I was CERTAIN he was yelling he was adopted to let everyone know why he was so troubled in this song. My husband thought he was saying, "Call the doctor!". Never imagined it was, "Bite the dust, yeah!" - Submitted by: Tracie Berny
Queen's, "Another One Bites The Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I'm never gunna bite the doctor.
The Real Lyrics:
Another one bites the dust.
The Story: It wasn't actually me that misheard this. It was my 8 year old daughter, who asked my mother, 'Mum, why isn't he going to bite the doctor???' - Submitted by: Terrianne
Queen's, "Another One Bites The Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I'm never gunna bite the doctor.
The Real Lyrics:
Another one bites the dust
The Story: My 5-year-old daughter asked why they were singing, 'I'm never gunna bite the doctor.' - Submitted by: Terri
Queen's, "Another One Bites The Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Malaguti!
The Real Lyrics:
Bite the dust, hey!
The Story: I always thought it was a song dealing with motor cycles so the brand name "Malaguti" seemed to make sense to me... - Submitted by: Franklin
Queen's, "Another One Bites The Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Radovan baca daske.
The Real Lyrics:
Another one bites the dust.
The Story: (Croatian / Bosnian / Serbian / .. - A man named Radovan throws boards.) Really common misinterpretation in the Balkans. - Submitted by: crowiz
Queen's, "Another One Bites The Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Shut up
The Real Lyrics:
Shoot out
The Story: I heard it as shut up and I sung it like this at the talent show. OHH YEAAH SHUT UP - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Another One Bites the Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Ah, a tiger
Bites the dust!
I’m being abducted!
The Real Lyrics:
Ah, take it!
Bite the dust!
Bite the dust, yeah!
The Story: The sound effects helped with that since the “tiger” sounded like a roar and the “I’m being abucted” had a UFO sound after it. - Submitted by: RPGamer
Queen's, "Another One Bites the Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Another one buys a Datson
The Real Lyrics:
Another one bites the dust.
The Story: So I was around 8 and my older brother would have been 11 when we were in the back seat on our way to FL for a family vacation when this song came on. The way they said Dust Ta like it was 2 words I could not make out at all and it sounded 100% to me like another one buys a Datson. When singing along my brother tried to correct me being a pesky know-it-all and I knew what I heard and we fought tooth and nail about the lyrics to that one line. I being never wrong and since I heard it with my own ears never wavered and we got in trouble so bad for fighting about it my Dad had to pull the car over. Years later in my early 30s I heard the song again but this time I could actually hear dust-a and of course I knew it couldn't be about a car as that didn't make since. I understand now how it all works and that I also have issues sometimes if someone doesn't accentuate their words but I still haven't told my brother he was right and probably never will. Also it makes me still a little angry that they couldn't be bothered to say the words correctly in the song as Dust-ta isn't a word and should have been just dust. Who says dust ta for dust anyway. Maybe I should tell my brother he was right but he probably would not remember any of it now but I will never forget how upset and strong that I felt I was right at the time. Finding this post actually makes me not feel so bad as some of the things others have heard is just crazy...:) - Submitted by: Lisa
Queen's, "Another One Bites the Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Another one buys the duster
The Real Lyrics:
Another one bites the dust, eh!
The Story: In México, some people thought that was the real lyrics - Submitted by: Averak Mandalorian
Queen's, "Another One Bites the Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Buy a Datsun I’m adopted
The Real Lyrics:
Another one bites the dust.
The Story: Ever since I have heard this song I always thought in the chorus he is talking about buying a Datsun and that he’s adopted. - Submitted by: Ron
Queen's, "Another One Bites the Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Da bip ull ah al oop
The Real Lyrics:
The brim pulled way down low
The Story: I misheard it as gibberish and I was like....was he drunk when he sung this? But it was the 80s so....yeah. - Submitted by: Alyssaz
Queen's, "Another One Bites the Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Eleven fights Dustin
The Real Lyrics:
Another one bites the dust.
The Story: My friend loves Stranger Things and has been telling me about a song about Stranger Things that she has heard in which Eleven fights Dustin. I had no idea what she was talking about until this song came on and she was saying, "That's the one, that's the Stranger Things song!" and singing "Eleven fights Dustin!" over and over again. - Submitted by: Phoebe
Queen's, "Another One Bites the Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Hey, I'm not adopted!
or
Hey, I'm not a doctor!
The Real Lyrics:
Hey! And the dust yeah!
The Story: So I'm going to do this for my talent show in a few days and it will be crazy. - Submitted by: a
Queen's, "Another One Bites the Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I never want to bite the doctor
The Real Lyrics:
Another one bites the dust.
The Story: I was about 21, & Freddie Mercury says "dusta" not just dust, so I couldn't quite make it out for my first few hearings. - Submitted by: Vicky Les
Queen's, "Another One Bites the Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Shoot the ducks, I'm adopted.
The Real Lyrics:
Bites the dust! Bites the dust, yeah!
The Story: One of my jobs on the soccer team at college was making mix tapes (yup, I'm old) for away games. I put this one to pump us up. So this song came on and I was showing off and belting it out. I was particularly moved by the, "Shoot the ducks, I'm adopted!" line and after I yelled it out the van broke down in laughter. I pumped them up with what everyone tells me are misheard lyrics. I'm still not sure... - Submitted by: Timi Zhuo
Queen's, "Another One Bites the Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Shoota
or
Sudafed!
The Real Lyrics:
Shootout!
The Story: Sudafed was suggested on the radio long time ago. - Submitted by: Mary
Queen's, "Another One Bites the Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Steam rolls merrily down the street
The Real Lyrics:
Steve walks warily down the street
The Story: At first, I thought it was 'steam rolls verily,' like John Deacon (who wrote the song) was trying to riff on Shakespeare. But then I said 'No, that's too silly.' Like 'steam rolls merrily' makes any more sense. I continued thinking that was the lyric for about 10 years. - Submitted by: Miracle
Queen's, "Another One Bites the Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Steam that's rolling down the street,
Affects the way I look.
The Real Lyrics:
Steve walks warily down the street
With the brim pulled way down low.
The Story: This is just the way it sounded to me. - Submitted by: Mark
Queen's, "Another One Bites the Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Steam wafts verily down the streak
The bean pole way down low.
Ain't no sound, but the sound of the fleet,
It seems guns ready to glow.
The Real Lyrics:
Steve walks warily down the street
With the brim pulled way down low.
Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet
Machine guns ready to go
The Story: It made sense at the time. I thought it was about the military... - Submitted by: Mike
Queen's, "Another One Bites the Dust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You can feed him, you can eat him, you can drink him down and leave him while he's down duh
Bottom ready, guess I'm ready for you
I'm standing on my octoped
The Real Lyrics:
You can beat him, you can cheat him, you can treat him bad and leave him while he's down
But I'm ready, yes I'm ready for you
I'm standing on my own two feet
The Story: Why......I dont know. - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Bahemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Mama, just killed a bear
The Real Lyrics:
Mama, just killed a man
The Story: The guy who screwed up the lyric was French and couldn't speak much English. He explained that he and his band had been singing the lyric 'Mama, just killed a bear' for a couple of years! Hilarious imho. :) - Submitted by: Fletchman
Queen's, "Bicycle Race"
The Misheard Lyrics:
By yourself
The Real Lyrics:
Bicycle Race
The Story: I sung the this song in a talent show. When I got to this line, I sung it all wrong. Everyone thought I was being funny and started laughing. I went bright red and ran off the stage! - Submitted by: Betty
Queen's, "Bicycle Race"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Gossip girl, gossip girl, gossip girl
The Real Lyrics:
Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle
The Story: Had heard this in an episode of America’s Funniest Home Videos that had a montage of videos featuring people on bicycles to this song. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Queen's, "Bicycle Race"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I love to write for bicycles
The Real Lyrics:
I love to ride my bicycle
The Story: I remember this from an episode of America’s Funniest Home Videos, and have now heard this recently in a Lyft commercial, so I am submitting this here. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Queen's, "Bicycle Race"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Tricycle, tricycle, tricycle
The Real Lyrics:
Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle
The Story: When I first heard that song in AFV (America's Funniest Home Videos), I cracked up loudly because of this accompanying a musical montage about people falling down or riding foolishly on their foot pedal-powered transportation. I wrote this misheard lyric because it would be a great to replace the word bicycle repeated three times with tricycle so I could make even youngsters laugh. - Submitted by: WhizkidF
Queen's, "Bicycle Race"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You say Ford, I say Chrysler
Don't believe you peed your pants
The Real Lyrics:
You say Lord, I say Christ
I don't believe in Peter Pan
The Story: Used to think that it mentioned automakers. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Queen's, "Bicycle Race"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You say shut up I say hey man
Jors wars never my scene
The Real Lyrics:
You say shark I say hey man
Jaws was never my scene
The Story: I always heard it as SHUT UP I SAY HEY MAN...ETC - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Body Language"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Look at me- I gotta get some body language
The Real Lyrics:
Look at me- I gotta case of body language
The Story: When I heard this I listened with a slightly dirty mind to find any hidden innuendos and I misheard this one. I thought I KNOW THE BODY LANGUAGE THEY TALKIN ABOUT - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Bohemiam Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The albatross is a very frightening bird indeed.
The Real Lyrics:
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me.
The Story: My friend at university honestly believed that this was what Freddie was singing--- and wouldn't be convinced otherwise! It's true though, albatrosses are pretty frightening. - Submitted by: laura bellamy
Queen's, "Bohemian Rapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Vince Miller
The Real Lyrics:
Bismillah
The Story: I assumed that the protagonist's name must be 'Vince Miller'. - Submitted by: B Webb
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
50 ways the wind blows
The Real Lyrics:
Anyway the wind blows
The Story: From when I first heard this song in 1976 until today (8 Sept 2004) I've thought it was '50 ways the wind blows'. I still don't think it sounds anything like 'anyway the wind blows'. - Submitted by: Iain Simonds
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Ashaww..
The Real Lyrics:
(Gong sound at the end of song)
The Story: every time I listened to this up to the age of about 7, I used to think that it was Freddie Mercury singing "Ashaww", And my dad would play along and sing it with me at the end of the song. - Submitted by: Jonny.F
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Bada-Boosh, Bada-Boosh
The Real Lyrics:
Scaramouche, Scaramouche
The Story: I thought “bada-boosh” was just a nonsense/scat phrase they made up. - Submitted by: Hu’s On First
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Bealzebub has a devil for a sideboard Eeeeeeeeee!
The Real Lyrics:
Bealzebub has a devil put aside for me(eee!)
The Story: My mother was surprisingly into this track at the same time as I was which given her musical taste ran to Nana Mouskouri was a bit of a surprise. I'll never forget the first time I heard her interpretation of this lyric though...we were in the kitchen with the tape playing and she was baking in her pinny (apron!) I dropped a tray of biscuits in shock! - Submitted by: Juliette
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Beelze-poop has a devil put aside for me
The Real Lyrics:
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me
The Story: My little sister heard it. - Submitted by: QueenFanatic
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Beelzebub has a devil for a son
The Real Lyrics:
Beelzebub has a devil put aside
The Story: This one - I'm not making this up - was a question in a Mensa-produced quiz book. The question was 'Can you name the song with the line...?' and there it was in black and white. I mean, sure the song is pretty weird overall; and you could believe that that was the original lyric if you hadn't listened to it too closely. But surely Mensa (the association of the world's smartest people) would be able to check that before it went into a quiz book. Kind of makes you wonder... - Submitted by: Haz-Man
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Beelzebub has the devil for his son,...for me, for me
The Real Lyrics:
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me
The Story: Actually this one, is one of the lyrics my close friend thought it was in the 70s! Couldn’t convince her otherwise!! - Submitted by: Sue T.
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Bees licked my tub, Brad's a devil on the side for me.
The Real Lyrics:
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me.
The Story: I got into an argument with my sister who was convinced that it was "bees licked my tub" and that Brad was a devil when she heard this song. She still thinks that 2 years later, even though I've shown her the actual lyrics. - Submitted by: Lily Wolfham
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Bohemian Rap cd
The Real Lyrics:
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Story: I know it's not really a lyric, but the song title. But I thought it was still really funny. My brother who is sixteen was on the internet and I asked him to look up the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody. His reply was 'Since when do you like Bohemian Rap?' I started laughing because m brother has heard the song plenty of times on the radio. He just never new the name of it. He thought I was talking about some new kind of Hip hop. A Bohemian Rap cd. - Submitted by: CT
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Bohemian rap shoddy
The Real Lyrics:
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Story: My husband swears this is the correct pronunciation. When I laughed at him he got really p.o.'d and threw about 6 pillows at me. - Submitted by: luvs2tat
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Bubba just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger,
now he's dead.
The Real Lyrics:
Mama, just killed a man.
Put a gun against his head,
pulled my trigger, now he's dead.
The Story: I first heard this song in heavy rotation when 'Wayne's World' came into theatres. i was watching mtv with my older sister and the line I thought was about 'Bubba' came on. I asked my sister why anyone would write a song about some guy named Bubba and she started laughing at me, and then she finally told me the real lyrics after she caught her breath. Since then, I have never been able to listen to that song.ever again. - Submitted by: Sandi The Glamm Slamm Goddezz Of Noize
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Cadamuse, Cadamuse will you do the fan Van Gogh
The Real Lyrics:
Scaramouch, Scaramouch will you do the fandango
The Story: I heard this the first time I listened to it. Still have no idea why. - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Diarrhea
The Real Lyrics:
Galileo
The Story: Freddie Mercury really needed the Pepto and some Trojans! - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Drink Miller! No we will not let you go
The Real Lyrics:
Bismillah! No we will not let you go
The Story: Maybe that's why I had that dream where I drank half a Corona and stole a car - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Dubya Bush! Dubya Bush! Will you do the fandango?
The Real Lyrics:
Scaramouche! Scaramouche! Will you do the fandango?
The Story: I always heard it right. But I can easily imagine it misheard this way- especially with the parody back during the 2004 election. - Submitted by: Scandia
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Galileo Figaro - Where did he go?
The Real Lyrics:
Galileo Figaro-magnifico.
The Story: I just now saw the correct lyrics now in a Pearls Before Swine cartoon. Thank you Stephen Pastis. - Submitted by: Old Comedywriter
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Galileo, Galileo
Galileo, Galileo
Galileo Peekaboo -- magnifico!
The Real Lyrics:
Gallileo, Gallileo
Gallileo, Gallileo
Gallileo Figaro -- magnifico!
The Story: I did try to sing along with the video, about ten years ago. My wife heard what I said, stopped it, looked at me with a very puzzled expression, and asked me: "Peekaboo?" - Submitted by: Cristian
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Got a mousch, got a mousch
The Real Lyrics:
Scarmouche, Scarmouche
The Story: I'm from Denmark, and one night my boyfriend and I were translating some different songs in to Danish. We agreed pretty much on what everything was supposed to be, but when my boyfriend started to sing 'Got a moustache' in Danish I broke completely down in laughter! He'd been bragging about how well he knew this song and then he'd always thought they'd been singing about a real Spanish guy with a moustache, dancing fandango. - Submitted by: Caroline
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
He's just a poor boy from a poor family!
Spending his life in monstrosity!
The Real Lyrics:
He's just a poor boy from a poor family!
Spare him his life from this monstrosity!
The Story: This is my misheard lyrics from back in December. My mom bought me a CD that had this song and we were listening to it after my Christmas concert while my dad was getting gas. I was singing along and just belted it out! The next day I found out it was "Spare him his life from this monstrosity." I'm 16 and have Autism, some hearing, and some vision problems and I LOVE Queen! - Submitted by: Queen #1 fan
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare his this life from these pork sausages!
The Real Lyrics:
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from his monstrosity.
The Story: This was the only lyric I couldn't make out in the song and I thought he was scared of eating pork sausages because his family was poor. Then someone told me the proper lyrics. - Submitted by: davester
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Hit me where the wind blows.
The Real Lyrics:
Any way the wind blows
The Story: My dad would listen to Queen over and over and over again when I was younger. One day, after listening to it for the upteenth time, I thought the song was about a guy who had just given up...who was caught. So I heard the song like "little high, little low, hit me where the wind blows...doesn't realy matter to me.." I, in my mind, was all, "He's such a depressed, sorry shell of a git, that it doesn't matter to him weather or not he gets b**** slapped!" I am of course a fan of Queen now. ;} - Submitted by: Robin
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Hit me with the windows.
The Real Lyrics:
Any way the wind blows.
The Story: A friend of mine sang this on Karaoke! - Submitted by: Donna McCormack
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Hit me with the windows
The Real Lyrics:
Anyway the wind blows
The Story: I used to go round singing "hit me with the windows, doesn't really matter to me" as a kid until my parents asked me what that even meant and why anyone would even do that. - Submitted by: Dermot Glennon
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I see a little jellu-et-u ofa man
The Real Lyrics:
I see a little silhouetto of a man
The Story: Sounds French. My friend heard this. - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Ich bill nicht
The Real Lyrics:
Bismillah
The Story: The question before the phrase asks "let him go". The obvious answer is I will not, the song is called Bohemian rhapsody, Bohemia was an area of German speaking Austria (it is now part of Czechoslovakia). The song references other essentially South western European figures, Scaramouch, (a comedy figure in Italian operetta) Galileo, Figaro and the word magnifico are all Italian. The whole feel of the song stems from the opera of Italy the classical music of Austria. The term for describing someone as Bohemian specifically refers to the French belief that gypsies came from that area and traveling artsy unconventional folk were acting out an almost gypsy lifestyle. Use of a German phrase to emphasise an authoritative refusal was a logical supposition, giving all these facts, Also I have never heard the word Bismillah before seeing a video of misheard lyrics in Rhapsody, only TODAY. I'm 51 so I've known it as a refusal in German from I first heard it, played on Top of the Pops. By the way it is the ONLY word in Rhapsody I have ever got wrong. I struggle to hear the many examples given here. It is all very clear to me. - Submitted by: Delana Wenbe
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Icy Bin Nacht
The Real Lyrics:
Bismillah!
The Story: Thought I heard German - Submitted by: Alice
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Icy a little silhouetto of a man Scotaboosh Scotaboosh will you do the fan mango
The Real Lyrics:
I see a little silhouetto of a man Scaramouche Scaramouche will you do the fandango
The Story: My friend heard this and told me. I told him the real lyrics and he was like..WHATS A SCARAMOUCHE - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
If I'm not back again please die tomorrow...
The Real Lyrics:
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow..
The Story: 60 years old and I just found out the real lyrics are not what I've been singing for over 45 years! - Submitted by: pkking
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
If I'm not back in bed this time tomorrow
The Real Lyrics:
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
The Story: I was only eleven when I misheard that one. Needless to say, I thought that the 'poor boy' regulary committed incest as well as going around and shooting people in the head for no reason. I was a little disappointed with the real lyrics. - Submitted by: Jack DeRippa
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Just gotta get right over Binyah
The Real Lyrics:
Just gotta get right outta here
The Story: Just when I thought that, decades later (even after this song was re-released in the 90s), that Gullah Gullah Island premiered on Nick Jr., made me think of Binyah being mentioned in this song. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Makes me laugh --
The Real Lyrics:
Bismillah!
The Story: I thought the point was the captors were ridiculing the request to be let go. - Submitted by: Gene Torisky
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Makes me laugh
No, we will not let you go.
The Real Lyrics:
Bismillah
No, we will not let you go.
The Story: It was actually a guy in my class who got it wrong. I said, 'Bismillah, no we will not let you go.' and he goes, no, it's 'Makes me laugh, my Dad told me.' Apparently his Dad was wrong, and I still make fun of him (and his dad) to this day! - Submitted by: Sara
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Mama just kill Daman
Put a gum maginst his head
Pulled my tricker now he's Dem
The Real Lyrics:
Mama just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger now he's dead
The Story: Sounds like a person going from dude to lady or going from Daman to Dem (Demi) if you think. I didn't hear it but my friend did when I sung it at karaoke. - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Mama just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled the trigger, now he's dead.
The Real Lyrics:
Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger,now he's dead.
The Story: When I heard this song when I was little I had no clue what it was about. In time I began to understand parts of it. I liked the song since it started out slow and then changed so much by the end that it sounded like a whole new song. Anyway, the way I heard the part was that the guy's mother had killed somebody. So it showed how messed-up his life was. I thought he was so messed-up and depressed that he was going to kill himself after leaving and going far away. I figured the song was about how he was telling people what had gone on in his life and also letting his mom and people know what he was about to do. It was a sad song in any case. It wasn't until I wanted to figure out how much of the song I had misheard that I realized that he had killed the man and now was going to get away to avoid punishment (or so I now understand it to be). I never would have guessed the part I had misheard all along was different. - Submitted by: Unknown_face
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Mama just killed her dad
The Real Lyrics:
Mama, just killed a man
The Story: First I thought it was 'Mama just killed herself' but then it wouldn't fit that she put a gun against his head, so I listened more closely and imagined it was 'her babe' whom she killed. Finally I understood 'her dad', so, in my Rhapsody almost the whole family is dead by now - Submitted by: Lydia
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Mama, just killed a man.
Put his guts up to his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead.
The Real Lyrics:
Mama, just killed a man.
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead.
The Story: I was listening to this music and I thought: 'I can't believe that lady cut his guts out and put it in his face!' I told that to my brother and he laughed at me. So I looked the words up, and I found out. - Submitted by: NeikoSi
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Miss Miller!
The Real Lyrics:
Bismillah!
The Story: My dad told me he and his friend with the last name Miller always sang this lyric as "Miss Miller" because they'd misheard it as such when his friend was in the car. - Submitted by: Ryan
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Miss Miller!
The Real Lyrics:
Bismillah!
The Story: The person who thought she heard this had no idea who Miss Miller might be. - Submitted by: Gene Torisky
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Miss Miller, we will not let you go.
The Real Lyrics:
Bismillah, we will not let you go.
The Story: My father loves this song, and he would always hum it. For the first time, I heard him sing it, he got half of the lyrics wrong. He didn't know why our entire family was laughing at him for 3 days. - Submitted by: John
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Miss Miller
The Real Lyrics:
Bismillah
The Story: My mom and I were listening to this song, and she asks me what they're saying. I tell her 'Bismillah' and she goes 'Who's Miss Miller?' - Submitted by: Tygerlily
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
My mama just killed a man.
She put my gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead.
The Real Lyrics:
Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead.
The Story: I don't know what I was thinking at the time, but in my Rhapsodiacal tale, the mother is a homocidal maniac who's been recently killing men left and right and using her son's gun for some reason. My friend Josh later informed me that it was the son, not the mother, who had killed a man. - Submitted by: Bryan
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Open your eyes,
Look up to the sky,
And heave!
The Real Lyrics:
Open your eyes,
Look up to the sky,
And see!
The Story: My mother used to play Queen a lot when I was growing up, and I never knew exactly what this song was about. Since I misheard this lyric, I began to think as a child that the song was about being sick over people and getting arrested. If I weren't mistaken enough, I thought that the heads spinning around each other on the video were there to represent dizziness and sickness! - Submitted by: Ocean-Sirius
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Open your flys, look up to the skys and pee.
The Real Lyrics:
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see.
The Story: I once sucked in helium from a balloon during an opera concert in a vineyard, then stood on the table and sang this. (It was a gamble, but it brought the house down.) - Submitted by: Paul Welsbny
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Piss me off!
The Real Lyrics:
Bismilliah!
The Story: I got in trouble for singing it when I was 11. - Submitted by: titaniumlegs
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Scaramouche, scaramouche
Will you do the banana?
The Real Lyrics:
Scaramouche, Scaramouche
Will you do the fandango?
The Story: I heard it at work and somebody said, did he say banana? - Submitted by: Beagle
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Scare a moose, scare a moose, will you moo the man mango?
The Real Lyrics:
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
The Story: The radio was acting up (static) and could only make out the vowel sounds. - Submitted by: Tim H.
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Scare a moose, scare a moose.
The Real Lyrics:
Scaramouche, Scaramouche
The Story: I was playing this song, and a friend asked what the words were. I said 'Scare a moose, Scare a moose will you do the fandango?' Neither of us realized it for like 4 or 5 years. You kinda had to be there. - Submitted by: that depends....
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Scare the moose, scare the moose. Can you do the Fan Dangle?
The Real Lyrics:
Scaramouche scaramouche can you do the fandango?
The Story: Sang it in public for karaoke - Submitted by: Doug
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
So you think you can stop me from spinning my eyes
So you think you can dump me and then say goodbye!
The Real Lyrics:
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die!
The Story: Its not really about the lyric but I think it's kind of funny. Imagine sitting in a physics class and then from up the back you hear my friend and me going 'Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide' Then my other friend, whose voice is the deepest I've ever heard going 'no escape from reality'. It sounds pretty damn funny. - Submitted by: boac89@gmail.com
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Spare him his life and his pork sausages
The Real Lyrics:
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from his monstrosity.
The Story: 9 year old daughter sang this - Submitted by: Lynda
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Spare him his life for his hawk, brush your teeth.
The Real Lyrics:
Spare him his life for his monstrosity.
The Story: I was 3-years-old when I heard this misheard line come up in the middle of the song. When my mom heard me sing it 7 years later, she said, "What does brushing your teeth have to do with killing someone?" - Submitted by: Melissa
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Spare him his life from this warm cup of tea!
The Real Lyrics:
Spare him his life from this monstrosity!
The Story: Not original -- I saw this one in a "Misheard Lyrics" category at a bar trivia competition. - Submitted by: AdmiralMercurial
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Spare him his life his warm sausage tea
The Real Lyrics:
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
The Story: These lyrics actually came from a video I watched. It was where there was this guy at a bar and he kept hearing food in the songs. - Submitted by: Pickle Rick
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The Algebra has a metal for a sidecar, me, oh me!
The Real Lyrics:
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me.
The Story: I love to sing along, and sometimes have to do my best with the lyrics. I don't remember ever feeling guilty or sorry about doing this. - Submitted by: MARY JO MARTINEZ
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The Elder poop has a Devil motorcycle me
The Real Lyrics:
Beezlebub has a devil put aside for me.
The Story: I watched this on a video - Submitted by: Caranime
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The a**hole bum has a demo put decide for me
The Real Lyrics:
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me
The Story: My friend was singing it off key and I'm like what are you saying bro? - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The algebra has a devil put aside for me.
The Real Lyrics:
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me.
The Story: When I misheard this lyric, I was in an algebra class, and my teacher was as evil as a devil, so I just kinda assumed they were singing about her (she was old enough!). - Submitted by: Anthy Himemiya
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The elder poop has devil motorcycle
The Real Lyrics:
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me
The Story: I heard it in the car and screamed elder poop. Lmao - Submitted by: Kash
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The elder-pope has a debbah put aside for me
The Real Lyrics:
Beelzebub had a devil put aside for me
The Story: Despite learning the songs lyrics, I’ve ALWAYS misheard this particular segment of the song because of the way ‘beelzebub’ is sung at this part of the song. In spite of this being one of my all-time favourite songs I STILL can’t help but remember how I used to totally mishear this segment. - Submitted by: John
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
This villain, No!
The Real Lyrics:
Bismaiilah, No!
The Story: All I can say is that I was 8 when it came out and it made sense to me, considering that it seemed to be about a condemned criminal. - Submitted by: Jim Annison
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Though escape from reality
The Real Lyrics:
No escape from reality
The Story: Their is really no story about this misheard lyric, I just hear a "though" how ever Freddie is actually saying "No". This could be from the way that Freddie pronounces the lyrics because his nose was clogged at the time Bohemian Rhapsody was being made. This may have affected the way Freddie pronounces words such as "No" to "Though" and etc. You might be wondering of how I know that Freddie's nose was clogged? Well, while listening to one of Freddie's vocal stems in Bohemian Rhapsody multitrack, I can clearly hear Freddie breathing through his mouth and not through his nose, I also noticed that when he was gonna do a high note like in the "Mama, Oooh" part, he takes really really big breathes because he doesn't breath to his nose but he breathes through his mouth. So theoretically, this misheard lyrics is mainly because Freddie cannot clearly pronounce words while having a clogged nose. - Submitted by: Lord Gaara
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Thunder bolts of lightning never ever frighten me!
The Real Lyrics:
Thunderbolt and lightning Very,very frightening me.
The Story: Well, I am from the USA, and I wondered if maybe Queen was doing a shout out to one of our founding fathers who did not fear lightning either. - Submitted by: Scandia
Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Misheard Lyrics:
he's just a poor boy from a poor family
sparing his life from his warm saucy tea!
The Real Lyrics:
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from his monstrosity.
The Story: my hubby is a child of the 60's and teen of the 70's while I'm a few years younger than him. One night while watching "Wayne's World together, we sing this song with the characters from the movie and he sings the above line. I crack up and he looks at me like "What?!" For once I beat him on the lyrics of a song from his generation!! (He was a music major in college lol) - Submitted by: beechcat
Queen's, "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And I'm Mikey
The Real Lyrics:
And I like it
The Story: Sounded like Freddie Mercury was referring to the kid from the Life Cereal ads... - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Queen's, "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And get all my trash in the back seat, hitchhike...
The Real Lyrics:
And get on my tracks, take a back-seat hitchhike...
The Story: Heard it while driving and burst out laughing - something told me I was hearing it wrong, and as it turned out, I was. - Submitted by: Steve
Queen's, "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Insane coho
The Real Lyrics:
This thing called love
The Story: When this song came out there was a radio DJ in Chicago named Steve Dahl who referred to his listeners as "insane coho lips" or "insane cohos" for short . So it was a familiar phrase the first time I heard the opening line of the song. - Submitted by: Jim
Queen's, "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
The Misheard Lyrics:
She gives me hot girl fever
The Real Lyrics:
She gives me hot cold fever
The Story: I always heard it as hot girl fever and it makes sense because hot girls give you fevers. - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
The Misheard Lyrics:
a crazy little thing down the hall
The Real Lyrics:
a crazy little thing called love
The Story: My brother was getting into Classic rock and was always playing this and "Another One Bites the Dust" all the time, I always thought that Freddie was singing that. And I was only 10 at the time. No I'm fully obsessed with Queen. - Submitted by: McKenzie
Queen's, "Death on Two Legs"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Was your feet on my back part of the deal? Shock!
The Real Lyrics:
Was the fin on your back part of the deal? Shark!
The Story: I misheard this as a kid growing up, thought those were the lyrics for two decades until literally today when I looked them up - Submitted by: D.
Queen's, "Don't Stop Me Now"
The Misheard Lyrics:
'cause I'm hacking in due time
The Real Lyrics:
'cause I'm having a good time
The Story: Heard this in a Budweiser commercial recently. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Queen's, "Don't Stop Me Now"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Giuseppe
The Real Lyrics:
Don't stop me
The Story: I heard this in a TON of commercials since 2016. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Queen's, "Don't Stop Me Now"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I'm a racist guy I don't mind like Lady Godiva
The Real Lyrics:
I'm a racing car passing by like Lady Godiva
The Story: I sung it as racist guy at recess. - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Don't Stop Me Now"
The Misheard Lyrics:
They're smoking.
The Real Lyrics:
Don't stop me.
The Story: I was listening to this with my mom. She doesn't like Queen; but for some reason, she tries to figure out the words when she hears the songs. Suddenly she asks, 'Who's smoking?' I had no idea what she was talking about, and she replied, 'Well, that's what he's saying, isn't it?' I told her what the words really were, but she still insists it sounds like 'They're smoking'. - Submitted by: tygerlily
Queen's, "Fat Bottomed Girls"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Big fat woman, you make a fat boy out of me.
The Real Lyrics:
Big fat woman, you make a bad boy out of me.
The Story: I first heard this lyric when I bought it at a local store. I listened to it and I thought it was the misheard lyric above. I suddenly thought 'Large women arouse him?' if you catch my drift. Then on a trip listening to Queen, I sung the lyrics and my mother corrected me, making me feel embarrassed already that I got the lyrics wrong in the first place. - Submitted by: Solidgameboy12
Queen's, "Fat Bottomed Girls"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Black bottomed girls
The Real Lyrics:
Fat bottomed girls
The Story: It wasn't me who misheard this, it was my grandmother. She heard me listening to it, and asked my mother to tell me to stop playing racist songs. - Submitted by: tygerlily
Queen's, "Fat Bottomed Girls"
The Misheard Lyrics:
But their booty and their style
The Real Lyrics:
But their beauty and their style
The Story: I got confused since the song "All About That Bass" originally had "booty" whereas the clean version says "beauty" - hence why it made sense to hear "booty" instead of "beauty" in this song. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Queen's, "Fat Bottomed Girls"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Get on your backs and writh.
The Real Lyrics:
Get on your bikes and ride.
The Story: My college roommate (El Noel) was an avid Queen fan. He misheard these lyrics for years until he finally learned the real lyrics, providing us with years of laughter. - Submitted by: Milt Panas
Queen's, "Fat Bottomed Girls"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Get on your backs and writhe!
The Real Lyrics:
Get on your bikes and ride!
The Story: I gave my wife such a hard time, telling her how foolish her interpretation of the line 'get on your bikes and ride' was. Later I was to learn I was the fool. - Submitted by: John
Queen's, "Fat Bottomed Girls"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I got stiffness in ma balls or I got syphilis in the balls
The Real Lyrics:
I got stiffness in my bones
The Story: I told my friend Nate and he said DA BONER and my other friend and myself our jaws dropped and Nate said please don't tell on my - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Fat Bottomed Girls"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I got stiffness in my balls.
The Real Lyrics:
I got stiffness in ma' bones.
The Story: For the past nearly forty years I thought my misheard lyric was correct until this morning. - Submitted by: Mike Tammaro
Queen's, "Fat Bottomed Girls"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I've got more b*****s and 'hoes.
The Real Lyrics:
Now your mortgages and homes.
The Story: It really does sound like he says this in the song. I'm not kidding. I was wondering who in the seventies would say that they had 'more b*****s and 'hoes', I thought that was restricted to modern days. Until I knew the lyrics, it sounded nothing like 'mortgages and homes'. - Submitted by: Sara Mercury
Queen's, "Flash"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Bring back Rockenegger to bring back his body
The Real Lyrics:
Dispatch war rocket Ajax
To bring back his body.
The Story: Well, I first heard the song back in my teenage, when I was obsessed with Arnold Schwarzenegger. - Submitted by: Chang
Queen's, "Flash"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Dispatch Boris and Ajax
To bring back his body.
The Real Lyrics:
Dispatch War Rocket Ajax
To bring back his body.
The Story: I never saw the movie, so this interpretation seemed logical. - Submitted by: Gregory J. Orme
Queen's, "Flash"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Dispatch Warrior Ajax
To bring back his body.
The Real Lyrics:
Dispatch war rocket Ajax
To bring back his body.
The Story: I didn't realise I'd been singing this wrong all these years until just now when I saw the real lyric on the front page of Am I Right! - Submitted by: Chris M
Queen's, "Flash"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Dispatch water and ajax to bring back his body.
The Real Lyrics:
Dispatch war rocket Ajax
To bring back his body.
The Story: My husband has mercilessly mocked me about this for years. Mum misheard "warlock and ajax"... - Submitted by: Zoe
Queen's, "Flash"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Flash, aha
He's a billy goat.
The Real Lyrics:
Flash, aha
He's a miracle.
The Story: My dad sung the incorrect lyric for years. And he did it with bravado, seemingly oblivious to the non-sequitur. - Submitted by: Chad P
Queen's, "Flash"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Savior of the uterus
The Real Lyrics:
Savior of the universe
The Story: Someone I found out had heard "universe" as "uterus" in another song, so it made sense here. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Queen's, "Friends Will Be Friends"
The Misheard Lyrics:
...but you've got friends to get drunk
The Real Lyrics:
...but you've got friends you can trust
The Story: Been hearing this line ever since I heard this song for the first time. - Submitted by: Cngc
Queen's, "Friends Will Be Friends"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Another red wedding day
The Real Lyrics:
Another red letter day
The Story: I swear it had to do with "White Wedding" by Billy Idol that did something like a red wedding! - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Queen's, "Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Why peninsula, hey boy
The Real Lyrics:
What're you doing tonight, hey boy
The Story: I misheard this so badly....... - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Hammer To Fall"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Mr Reid won't care at all.
The Real Lyrics:
History won't care at all.
The Story: Mr Reid was a math teacher of mine. I guess I was too absorbed in my math homework when I was listening to the Queen CD, because I would swear that's what I heard. - Submitted by: Rio
Queen's, "Headlong"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Anti-Russian head law
The Real Lyrics:
And you're rushing headlong.
The Story: Came up at a family singalong. Obviously a subtle jab at Putin, we decided. - Submitted by: Headlaw
Queen's, "Headlong"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Get your Russian hands off.
The Real Lyrics:
And we're rushing headlong.
The Story: I put this song with my dad in the car. He mistook it to be about a cheeky Russian rather than rushing headlong. - Submitted by: Chris D
Queen's, "I Need Somebody to Love"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I need somebody to love bite, need somebody to love bite
The Real Lyrics:
I need somebody to love, I need somebody to love
The Story: Driving along in the car with my wife when decided to sing along to this and couldn’t understand why she was laughing so much. - Submitted by: Ken Thomas
Queen's, "I Want To Break Free"
The Misheard Lyrics:
But I want to play B sides
The Real Lyrics:
But I want to be sure
The Story: I thought the line was " But I want to play B sides" because the song is about breaking free and I assumed Queen was saying that listening to the B side of a 45 record would be breaking free of what most people do, which back then was listening to the A side of a 45 record. - Submitted by: Beth Ann Gehres
Queen's, "I Want to Break Free"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I want a grapefruit
The Real Lyrics:
I want to break free
The Story: I did not know any English when I was young (grapefruit is the same word in German, but pronounced a little bit different). I learned the original lyrics when I learned English, but I still like mine better - Submitted by: Timi Zhuo
Queen's, "I'm Going Slightly Mad."
The Misheard Lyrics:
I'm an unsightly man.
The Real Lyrics:
I'm going slightly mad.
The Story: I managed to convince my sister that he was saying 'I'm an unsightly man' and didn't learn that it was wrong until I looked up the name of the song :-) - Submitted by: Stephanie
Queen's, "I'm In Love With My Car"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Got a Barbie and a car named Loretta.
The Real Lyrics:
I'd rather buy me a new carburetor.
The Story: I'd only ever heard this song on the Live Killers cd, so it wasn't that easy to understand anyway. I asked my friend if she thought I was right. ( I was sure I had to be wrong because it sounded so stupid) She agreed with me. I finally decided to look up the words on the Internet ( and I still haven't told her what they really are). - Submitted by: tygerlily
Queen's, "Innuendo"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Be free with your tempo be free be free
Surrender your Evil be free be free to yourself
The Real Lyrics:
Be free with your tempo be free be free
Surrender your ego be free be free to yourself
The Story: No particular story. For 30 years I thought Freddie said "Evil", not "ego". Love both versions :) - Submitted by: Valentin
Queen's, "It's A Kind Of Magic"
The Misheard Lyrics:
It's a cadilladic
The Real Lyrics:
It's a kind of magic
The Story: My best friend loved this song and used to sing along as it was played on the radio.But there was one thing she couldn't understand, and that was why Queen couldn't pronounce Cadillac. She really thought they were singing about a Cadillac car. - Submitted by: ulrika lindgren
Queen's, "It's A Kind Of Magic"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Mexicano magic
The Real Lyrics:
It's a kind of magic.
The Story: I was 9 years old when I first heard the song on the radio. I started singing it in class the next day. Everyone seemed to believe those were the real words. Weird! - Submitted by: Jk
Queen's, "It's a Hard Life"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I don't want my Fritos
The Real Lyrics:
I don't want my freedom
The Story: I'm not eating my Fritos. - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "It’s Late "
The Misheard Lyrics:
Dismay dismay dismay but not today
The Real Lyrics:
It’s late it’s late but not too late
The Story: I thought he’s sad but refuses to let it effect him too much. - Submitted by: Javier G. Madrigal Jr.
Queen's, "Keep Yourself Alive"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Well I've loved a million women and a bit of Danny Kayes
The Real Lyrics:
Well I've loved a million women In a belladonic haze
The Story: I thought since freddie mercury was gay he was saying this. - Submitted by: ne
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
"Bethany Kate," she said,
Just like Marie Antoinette
The Real Lyrics:
'Let them eat cake' she said
Just like Marie Antoinette
The Story: I have no idea how I misheard this and it makes so much more sense when I learned the real lyrics. But now I can't correct myself. - Submitted by: meanderling
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Adama with a laser beam
The Real Lyrics:
Dynamite with a laser beam
The Story: Battlestar Galactica. - Submitted by: Doug H. Nuts
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Faithful as a pussycat
The Real Lyrics:
Playful as a pussy cat.
The Story: Thought the line was intended ironically. - Submitted by: Hugh
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Fillet man she tried up But doubt again, she murdered But then again, incidentally She put a away a crime.
The Real Lyrics:
Met a man from China Went down to Geisha Minah Then again incidentally If you're that way inclined
The Story: With the name 'Killer Queen' I thought it was about a despotic monarch like Mary I. - Submitted by: Colin Slater
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Find it on the internet
The Real Lyrics:
Just like Marie Antoinette
The Story: I've listened to this song since I was a kid, never really paying attention to the lyrics since I was in love with the overall sound. One afternoon I decided to learn the lyrics and in the process of listening repeatedly started to wonder how Freddie Mercury knew about the internet before it was invented. Take that Al Gore! - Submitted by: Scarlet
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
From guys she couldn't care less
The Real Lyrics:
For cars, she couldn't care less
The Story: I have just found out while reading this site. I can't believe I was singing the wrong lyrics for all these years. - Submitted by: Silken
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Gunfights and Reveille, dynamite and the laser beam.
The Real Lyrics:
Gunpowder, gelatine, dynamite with a laser beam
The Story: As a kid I was afraid of being conscripted and killed for no reason when I got older (Vietnam was just ending when this song came out). Since the Vietnam war had no discernible purpose, I thought the military existed to cull youth and control counter-culture (this was the era of anti-youth sentiment when rock music wasn't universally accepted - even banned in many quarters, and still associated with rebellion in the eyes of conservatives). Much of pop music at the time did deal with these topics. So, I thought this line referred to what mornings at boot camp were like! - Submitted by: Jeff
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Hygenified hygenimy itsies to the right of me
The Real Lyrics:
A built in remedy
For Khrushchev and Kennedy.
The Story: These are nonsense words but it is how the song sounds to me - Submitted by: Paul Rothbart
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Little man vagina went down to get ya might of....
The Real Lyrics:
Met a man from China when down to Geisha Minah
The Story: I sung it and no one knew what I was saying. - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Little man vagina
The Real Lyrics:
Met a man from China.
The Story: I played it during dinner and my dad looked at me with a weird face. - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Little man's vagina
The Real Lyrics:
Little man from China
The Story: With my dad in the car, we noticed this and laughed for miles. We rewound and played the tape over and over. My dad almost wrecked the car. - Submitted by: Holly Moore
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Rubber band
The Real Lyrics:
At the drop of a hat
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
She keeps Moet et Chandon in a pretty cabinet
The Real Lyrics:
She keeps Moe in a shadow, in a pretty cabinet
The Story: Alternately, I though it might be "she keeps mowing a shadow", but then I decided it must be "moe". I was a pop-hungry kid when this came out. - Submitted by: Jeff
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
She keeps Moët et Chandon
In her pretty cabinet
'In a perfect case,' she says "just like Marie Antoinette."
The Real Lyrics:
She keeps Moët et Chandon
In her pretty cabinet
'Let them eat cake,' she says
Just like Marie Antoinette
The Story: Sorry, could this replace my previous submission, as I forgot the quotes on the last line. Apologies, Davo - Submitted by: Davo
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
She keeps a Moet and chandle In a pretty cabinet "Let them eat cake" she said Just like Marie Antionette Building a remedy For Christian longevity And anytime an imitation You can't decide
The Real Lyrics:
She keeps Moet et Chandon In her pretty cabinet 'Let them eat cake' she says Just like Marie Antoinette A built-in remedy For Kruschev and Kennedy At anytime an invitation You can't decline
The Story: I thought 'moet' was a type of wine and 'chandle' was short for chandelier. - Submitted by: Colin Slater
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
She keeps a moaning and chantin' in her pretty cabinet And let them eat cake she says just like Marie and toe net A built in remedy for Khrushchev's virginity
The Real Lyrics:
She keeps Moet et Chandon in her pretty cabinet And let them eat cake she says just lime Marie Antoinette A built in remedy for Khrushchev and Kennedy
The Story: The misheard is better. - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
She keeps a mohair condom in a pretty cabinet
Kept them in case, she said, just like Marie Antoinett
Building a remedy To Prince Jive an entity
The Real Lyrics:
She keeps a Moet et Chandon in her pretty cabinet
'Let them eat cake' she said, just like Marie Antoinette
Built in remedy to Krushev and Kennedy
The Story: I don't think I got ANY of the right words to this song. - Submitted by: Scooby Tuba
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
She keeps a mole in a sandal in her pretty cabinet
The Real Lyrics:
She keeps Moet et Chandon in her pretty cabinet
The Story: I wasn't a big champagne drinker as a kid but even at the time these seemed strange objects to put in a cabinet. - Submitted by: Chaz
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
She keeps mole weed and condos
In a pretty cabinet.
The Real Lyrics:
She keeps Moet et Chandon
In her pretty cabinet.
The Story: Someone caught me singing it, then asked what 'mole weed' was. - Submitted by: Sina
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
She's a class queen
The Real Lyrics:
She's a killer queen
The Story: Have heard it this way forever, and my ear still can't hear them say "Killer Queen". I always wondered why they didn't call the song "Class Queen." Finally realized I had the lyrics wrong when I checked on the Internet. - Submitted by: James Owens
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
She's a killer clean
The Real Lyrics:
She's a killer queen
The Story: At one time, I thought I heard "clean" as "queen" so I brought this up. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
She's a killer queen, gotten by the guillotine.
The Real Lyrics:
She's a killer queen - gunpowder, gelatine.
The Story: Due to the mention of Marie Antoinette earlier in the song, I thought this lyric sounded appropriate. I just thought that Mr Mercury was pronouncing guillotine as 'Jillotine'. - Submitted by: Big Paul
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Tacos and enchiladas
The Real Lyrics:
Went down to Geisha Minor
The Story: I thought it was about Mexican food! - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Tiny mind with a laser beam
The Real Lyrics:
Dynamite with a laser beam
The Story: I had the volume low while listening to Killer Queen. - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
she is a willing ass...
The Real Lyrics:
At the drop of a hat she's as willing as...
The Story: It is my first. - Submitted by: Marcello
Queen's, "Living on My Own"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Mean old lady, Mean old lady! I get so lonely lonely lonely
Got to be some good times ahead.
The Real Lyrics:
Dee do de de dee do de de
I get so lonely lonely lonely lonely yeah
Got to be some good times ahead .
The Story: I thought they were actual words, not meaningless "Dee do de de" so I tried to decipher it and could not come up with anything better than Mean old lady! That too makes no sense. - Submitted by: Kenneth Lees
Queen's, "March Of The Black Queen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Put me in the cellar with a nutty bar.
The Real Lyrics:
Put me in the cellar with the naughty boys.
The Story: Once again, this was from my mom. I just bought the album this was on the day before. We're listening to this in the car when she says, "Did he just say 'Put me in the cellar with a nutty bar'?" I couldn't stop laughing long enough to tell her the right words. - Submitted by: tygerlily
Queen's, "Now I'm Here"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Down in the dungeons with Peters & Lee.
The Real Lyrics:
Down in the dungeons, just Peaches and me.
The Story: My mum asked if Freddie was singing 'Down in the dungeons with Peters & Lee'! Peters & Lee were a singing duo who won on 'Opportunity Knocks' around 1974 and hit No. 1 in the uk with 'Welcome Home'. Lennie Peters was the blind male half and Diane Lee was his light-voiced partner.* - Submitted by: pickle*
Queen's, "Now I'm Here"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Go, go, go, little Biddy!
The Real Lyrics:
Go, go, go, little Queenie!
The Story: In around 1978, the Australian series 'Ben Hall' was on TV. Ben's wife in the series was called Biddy, and I assumed Freddie Mercury was referring to someone called Biddy at the end of 'Now I'm Here'. - Submitted by: pickle*
Queen's, "One Vision"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Fried chicken
The Real Lyrics:
One vision
The Story: A contributor notes: Strange as it may seem, they actually *do* say fried chicken! It's well known in Queen fandom that they were messing around in the studio and decided to throw in that little joke. It's also shown on a documentary I was singing it in a car with one of my friends. He thought it was funny... but in the end I did convince him I was correct. - Submitted by: Timi Zhuo
Queen's, "One Vision"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Fried chicken
The Real Lyrics:
One vision
The Story: When I was filmed on karaoke as a little girl singing fried chicken - Submitted by: Timi Zhuo
Queen's, "One Vision"
The Misheard Lyrics:
God knows in mysterious ways
The Real Lyrics:
God works in mysterious ways
The Story: I swear it had to do with the song "I Want to Break Free". - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Queen's, "One Vision"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Ta-ta-ta just one true vision!
The Real Lyrics:
One flesh, one bone, one true religion!
The Story: This was actually misheard by Roger Taylor (according to footage from a documentary on Queen). They were recording the song in the studio and Freddie said the lyrics didn't scan with the music. Roger Taylor told him they DID and he sang something like: 'Ta-ta-ta just one true vision!!!' about which Freddie said 'Of course it fits like THAT!!!' I thought that was funny... (No offence Mr. Taylor, I'm a big fan!) - Submitted by: Riekiebol
Queen's, "Play The Game"
The Misheard Lyrics:
This is your life, don't play hockey games.
The Real Lyrics:
This is your life, don't play hard-to-get.
The Story: Whenever hockey is played, or whenever I watch a hockey game (which is seldom, especially as of the time I submitted these lyrics), I still tend to use this song as my 'unofficial' not-so-hard-core song of the extremely hard-core sport. - Submitted by: Ian McLinn
Queen's, "Play the Game"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Don't blank oxygen
The Real Lyrics:
Don't play hard to get
The Story: I dunno what the blank is. - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Play the Game"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Open up your mic
The Real Lyrics:
Open up your mind
The Story: I kind of thought he said mic (microphone), because it made sense with open mic. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Queen's, "Princes of the Universe"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Bored to be kings
The Real Lyrics:
Born to be kings
The Story: The song I remember hearing in Highlander: The Series (even though it started as a film where this song originated). - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Queen's, "Radio Ga Ga"
The Misheard Lyrics:
All we hear Lady-O Gaga
The Real Lyrics:
All we hear is radio ga ga
The Story: I sung it like crazy and my dad wondered what I said. - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Radio Ga Ga"
The Misheard Lyrics:
All we hear is Radio gaga
Radio googoo
Radio gaga
The Real Lyrics:
All we hear is Radio caca
Radio googoo
Radio gaga
The Story: Listen closely to the chorus. The song title was changed after it was recorded, per Roger Taylor. The phrase "radio gaga" is not repeated twice. The first line is clearly, "all we hear is, radio caca," and the third line, "radio gaga." - Submitted by: Doughnuts
Queen's, "Radio Gaga"
The Misheard Lyrics:
What we need is radio caca
Radio poopoo
Radio caca
The Real Lyrics:
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio goo goo
Radio ga ga
The Story: I work at a medical office building. The loudspeaker usually is turned down in the midst of the building’s reverb, people and such. - Submitted by: Jay
Queen's, "Radio Gaga"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You of something made by Mars
The Real Lyrics:
Wars of worlds invaded by Mars
The Story: I think it's a shoutout to War of the Worlds but I like the misheard lyric better because chocolate. - Submitted by: Dayna
Queen's, "Radio Gaga"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Your Yak's in Hell
The Real Lyrics:
Your yakking- it helps!
The Story: I don't know what the actual lyrics are because I've misheard them for years. - Submitted by: Jessica Sterikoff-Smith
Queen's, "Ride The Wild Wind"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Tame the world just for me.
The Real Lyrics:
It ain't dangerous enough for me.
The Story: This booboo was said by my friend Sarah. She was listening to a mix I made that had this song on it. She asked me what the song was with these lyrics on it, and I just gave her a very confused look. When I realized what song she had misheard, I pointed and laughed. To this day she still insists that the lyrics she misheard are better than the real ones! - Submitted by: different sort of freak
Queen's, "Save Me"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Is nothing but a shamacy.
The Real Lyrics:
Is nothing but a sham, it seems.
The Story: I initially thought Queen had made up a new word, 'shamocy,' a combination of 'sham' and 'fallacy.' - Submitted by: Quentin Opping
Queen's, "Seven Seas Of Rhye"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Storm the Boston marathon I'll fly through
The Real Lyrics:
Storm the master-marathon I'll fly through.
The Story: I actually thought this is what they said before the bombing actually happened. - Submitted by: Joe
Queen's, "Seven Seas of Rhye"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I challenge the mighty tight hens and their stupid doors
The Real Lyrics:
I challenge the mighty Titans and their troubadours
The Story: This was actually sung by my little cousin. While listening to a Queen 'Greatest Hits' cd, little Dougie asked for the song with the chickens in it. Not knowing what he meant, I asked him, 'What chickens?' My cousin gives me a look that plainly says, 'Duh!' and sings/yells: 'I challenge the mighty tight hens and their stupid doors! That song!' - Submitted by: Elfie
Queen's, "Seven Seas of Rhye"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Storm the Boston marathon I'll fly through
The Real Lyrics:
Storm the master-marathon I'll fly through.
The Story: I actually thought this is what they said before the bombing actually happened. - Submitted by: Joe
Queen's, "Sleeping on the Sidewalk"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I was blowin' two million fans
The Real Lyrics:
I was blowin' to a million fans
The Story: It doesn't help that this song comes right after "Get Down, Make Love" on the album "News of the World". - Submitted by: Amanda
Queen's, "Somebody To Love"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Everybody wants a crocodile
They say I'm going crazy!
The Real Lyrics:
Everybody wants to put me down
They say I'm going crazy.
The Story: I kept hearing it like this for like 3 years and wondered what it was about the crocodiles. I then read the right lyrics somewhere, but can't get the old version out of my head, and I still sing it like that lol.. - Submitted by: slightly mad
Queen's, "Somebody To Love"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Find me somebody to love bite.
The Real Lyrics:
Find me somebody to love, find...
The Story: My mum would always mishear this. Maybe Fred was in the habit of giving partners love bites (hickeys), but I don't know. - Submitted by: pickle*
Queen's, "Somebody to Love"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I work till I ache my balls
The Real Lyrics:
I work till I ache my bones
The Story: We put it in for a whirl in the day I got Queen Greatest Hits 1. Now my little sister thought he said "I work till I ache my balls" and I laughed like crazy. - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Somebody to love"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Everybody wants a crocodile
The Real Lyrics:
Everybody wants to put me down
The Story: Doesn't everybody want a crocodile? - Submitted by: Benno
Queen's, "Stone Cold Crazy"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Gotta poopie on my side
The Real Lyrics:
Gonna put me in a cell
The Story: This is what my 3-year-old self wanted to hear when listening to this song...still hear it that way 25 years later. - Submitted by: Tim
Queen's, "The Invisible Man"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I'm an innocent man
The Real Lyrics:
I'm the invisible man
The Story: Sounded like some reference to a Billy Joel album and title song. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Queen's, "The Invisible Man"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Join a gay club
The Real Lyrics:
John Deacon
The Story: I was listening to the song completley unaware that the band members names were being called out, until I looked the lyrics up on the Internet. What a fool I was! - Submitted by: christina
Queen's, "The Invisible Man"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Rayquaza!
The Real Lyrics:
Who goes there? [during "Ha, ha, ha, hello" part]
The Story: Rayquaza is a legendary Pokémon from the third generation. Though its name is pronounced "Ray-KWAY-zah", I have always thought of it as "Ray-KWAH-zah" and this is what I thought they were saying in the background. - Submitted by: AdmiralMercurial
Queen's, "The Invisible Man"
The Misheard Lyrics:
¿Qué pasa?
The Real Lyrics:
Who goes there?
The Story: Spoken in the background during the "Ha, ha, ha, hello" section in the middle. - Submitted by: AdmiralMercurial
Queen's, "The Miracle"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Captain Kirk and Cain and Abel
The Real Lyrics:
Captain Cook and Cain and Abel
The Story: I always think that they're giving a shout out to Star Trek, no matter what the actual words are because it sounds like that. - Submitted by: dayna
Queen's, "The Miracle"
The Misheard Lyrics:
It's America
The Real Lyrics:
It's a miracle
The Story: I wasn't me hearing it, it was my sister who heard and and said "Shouldn't they be saying England" and I told her the real lyrics. - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "The Show Must Go On"
The Misheard Lyrics:
In the Gacha Life
The Real Lyrics:
In the pantomime
The Story: Heard this on the radio last year and heard Gacha Life. - Submitted by: Caranime
Queen's, "The Show Must Go On"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Will grope but never die
The Real Lyrics:
Will grow but never die
The Story: Molesters live forever! - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "Was It All Worth It"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Saw Gordon Downie
The Real Lyrics:
Saw God and Dali
The Story: Gordon Downie is the lead singer of the Canadian band The Tragically Hip. - Submitted by: AdmiralMercurial
Queen's, "We Are The Champions"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And fat mistakes, I've been abused, I've had my shelfs and kids in my face but I've come through
The Real Lyrics:
And bad mistakes, I've made a few, I've have my share of sand kicked in my face but I've come through
The Story: Your mistakes are fat, you've been abused and shelfs and kids are in your face. - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "We Are The Champions"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I've had my share of bad kittens'n my face
But I've come through.
The Real Lyrics:
I've had my share of sand kicked in my face
But I've come through.
The Story: Just heard it wrong. - Submitted by: Weirdo
Queen's, "We Are The Champions"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Pollution Pollution
The Real Lyrics:
No time for losing
The Story: Our whole class used to sing 'pollution' when we were about 8 years old from lyrics that a teacher gave us to sing in a concert...only years later I found out the line was very wrong! - Submitted by: Kaz
Queen's, "We Are the Champions"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And bad mistakes, I've made a few,
I've have my share of fat chicks in bed but I’ve come through
The Real Lyrics:
And bad mistakes, I've made a few,
I've have my share of sand kicked in my face but I've come through
The Story: I’m sure it’s actually a different version not the usual commercial version. - Submitted by: Mike
Queen's, "We Are the Champions"
The Misheard Lyrics:
But it's been no better frozen, no plate of crows
The Real Lyrics:
But it's been no bed of roses, no pleasure cruise
The Story: Freddie quotes from Frozen - Submitted by: Timi Zhuo
Queen's, "We Are the Champions"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I've paid for my juice
The Real Lyrics:
I've paid my dues
The Story: We used to have Robbie Williams playing in the car as a family, and I always used to sing that line at the top of my voice, thinking that it was a brilliant idea for Robbie to pay for his juice, in my defense, how was I to know that 'Dues' is even a word. My mum still laughs whenever the song comes on. - Submitted by: Timi Zhuo
Queen's, "We Are the Champions"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Those are the losers
The Real Lyrics:
No time for losers
The Story: 27 years on Earth and I was today years old when I learned that what Freddie wrote isn't as "run it in your face" as what I thought - Submitted by: Dayna
Queen's, "We Will Rock You"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Buddy you're a boy maker, big night day...
The Real Lyrics:
Budd you're boy make a big noise, playing....
The Story: Finally got it at 35... - Submitted by: Eric
Queen's, "We Will Rock You"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Eating with your eyes gonna make ya zombies some day
The Real Lyrics:
Pleading with your eyes gonna make ya some peace some day
The Story: You can't eat with your eyes so you will be a zombie! - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "We Will Rock You"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Gonna be a big Manson day
The Real Lyrics:
Gonna be a big man some day
The Story: I always heard it as Manson day not sure if it refers the the Manson Family or not. - Submitted by: Alyssa
Queen's, "We Will Rock You"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Mud on your face
Big disk brakes
The Real Lyrics:
Mud on your face
You big disgrace
The Story: My husband blithely sang this lyric as we drove along...to my amazement. When I finally stopped laughing, I set him straight, but have never stopped wondering what other bizarre lyrics may lie within. You always find these things out when it's too late. - Submitted by: Emily Canter
Queen's, "We Will Rock You"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Putting your bag into your face.
The Real Lyrics:
Somebody better put you back into your place.
The Story: I was only about 5 or 6 years old and I was always listening to this song whenever it came on. I would always crank it up when it came on. I would start singing it and my parents would just start laughing and laughing. I would get mad. When I got my first CD player, I would sing it and then my parents and my friends would start laughing and I didn't know why. One day, we all sat down at the computer and we looked up the lyrics and I got really embarrassed. - Submitted by: TJ Mallory
Queen's, "We Will Rock You"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We will, we will vacuum
The Real Lyrics:
We will, we will rock you
The Story: My son was fascinated by vacuum cleaners as a baby. When he learned to crawl, the first thing he headed for was the upright to examined it. As we began his education into the musical 'classics' (well, at least classics to us), it made perfect sense to him that someone would compose a great song about a vacuuming. - Submitted by: Franki
Queen's, "We Will Rock You"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You've got mud on your face, big disc brakes
The Real Lyrics:
You've got mud on your face, a big disgrace
The Story: I heard my husband singing this in bed one morning while listening to the radio. He seriously thought that's what Freddie was singing. Needless to say when I corrected him and he realised his mistake we both fell about laughing. - Submitted by: Timi Zhuo
Queen's, "We are the Champions"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We are the Jeffersons, my friends
The Real Lyrics:
We are the champions, my friends
The Story: I swear it was about Isabel Sanford and Sherman Hemsley. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Queen's, "Who Wants To Live Forever"
The Misheard Lyrics:
So touch my tears with your ears
Touch my whoa whoa with your freak out tears
The Real Lyrics:
So touch my tears with your lips
Touch my world with your fingertips
The Story: This makes no sense. - Submitted by: Alyssa

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