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Misheard lyrics (also called mondegreens) occur when people misunderstand the lyrics in a song. These are NOT intentional rephrasing of lyrics, which is called parody. For more information about the misheard lyrics available on this site, please read our FAQ.

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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The Troggs', "Love Is All Around"
The Misheard Lyrics:
It's written on the air
The Real Lyrics:
It's written on the wind
The Story: I kept thinking it made more sense to say on the air since it refers to broadcasting. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
The Troggs', "Love Is All Around"
The Misheard Lyrics:
It’s written on the way in
The Real Lyrics:
It's written on the wind
The Story: I never knew the real lyrics until only a couple years ago. Not funny, but true. For decades I had it wrong. - Submitted by: Richard Gorsky
The Troggs', "Wild Thing"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Wild thing, I think I love you
But I want an overture...
The Real Lyrics:
Wild thing, I think I love you
But I wanna know for sure...
The Story: The wun-ah-no word pair is followed way too closely by a muffled F in one instance of "for", which sounded like a V. The words "know for" were not enunciated separately at the pace of this version of the song. - Submitted by: Don Fortier
The Troggs', "Wild Thing"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You make my boss say
The Real Lyrics:
You make my heart sing
The Story: Sounded like it could have been about that "Wild Thing" was what their boss would say. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
The Troggs', "Wild Thing"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You make my boss sing
The Real Lyrics:
You make my heart sing
The Story: I was like "Who's the boss that really sings?" - Submitted by: Cody Finke
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