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.
This page contains all the misheard lyrics for I Am The Walrus that have been submitted to this site and the old collection from inthe80s started in 1996.
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Coo coo ca choo!
Goo goo g'joob!
Cook, cook a Jew
Goo goo g'joob!
Corporation tee-shirts,
stupid bloody Jews they...
Corporation tee-shirts,
stupid bloody Tuesday
Don't you think that Yoko laughs at you
Don't you think the joker laughs at you
Drop out, drop out
Everybody drop out.
Got one, got one
Everybody's got one.
Ev'rybody smoke pot!
Ev'rybody's got one!
Everybody bumf***.
Yellow matter custard
Everybody polka
Everybody's got one
Everybody's got one
Everybody's got one
or
Everybody smoke pot
Everybody smoke pot
or
Everybody smoke pot
Everybody smoke pot
Oompa Oomapa,
stick it up your jumper (pronounced "joompa")
This lyric occurs in the fadeout of the song and is chanted repeatedly.
Everybody sucks c**k.
Everybody's got one.
Everybody toke up
Ev'rybody's got one!
Everybody's f****d up.
Everybody's got one.
Fly in the ointment
I am the eggman.
Get f**ked, get f**ked, everybody get f**ked
Got one, got one, everybody's got one
This is the funny chant in the middle of the song.
Go choke a Jew!
Goo goo g'joob!
Goo-goo the Jew.
Goo goo g'joob
Goon gape guh-joop
Goo goo g'joob!
Grab a lock of fish, my pornographic Princess.
Crab-a-locker fishwife, pornographic Priestess.
Grab a locker fishwife,
pornographic priestess
Crabalocker fishwife,
pornographic priestess
Hey dude, a Jew!
Goo goo ga joob.
I am in Woolworth's.
I am a walrus.
I am the Ache-man
I am the walrus
Take a look at you.
I am the eggman
I am the walrus
Goo goo g'joob.
I am the bug man, coo coo cah joo.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.
I am the eggplant
Oh, they are the eggplants.
I am the eggman
Oh, they are the eggmen.
I am the eightman
They are the eight men.
I am the eggman
They are the eggmen.
If the sun don't come
We get to Tanton, standing in the English rain.
If the sun don't come
You get a tan from standing in the English rain.
Jan Boo food haf keen tem kicking someone in the snow.
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe.
Man you've been a naughty girl
You let your n*****s down.
Man you've been a naughty girl
You let your knickers down.
Polymonic penguin sitting on a Christian
Elementary penguin singing 'Hari Krishna!'
See her in a wheelchair
Climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Semolina pilchard
Climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
See how they smile like d***s in the sky
See how they smile like pigs in a sty
Semolina belcher climbing up the Eiffel Tower
Semolina Pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower
Semolina is a kind of wheat.
She's gone to the dance parlor and left you.
Sit you down, Father. Rest you!
Sitting in a wheelchair, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Semolina Pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the Sun
If the Sun don't come, you get your Times
Or Standard in the English way.
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come, you get a tan
From standing in the English rain.
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come, then pretty soon
You're standing in an English rain
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come, you get a tan
From standing in the English rain
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun,
If the sun don't come you get a chance at standing in the English rain
Sitting in an English garden wiating for the sun,
If the sun don't come you get a tan from standing in the English rain
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come, you get a w*** from standing in an English way.
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come, you get a tan from standing in the English rain.
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the band to come.
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
Smoke pot, smoke pot, everybody smoke pot.
Oompa oomapa, stick it up your joompa.
Smoke pot, smoke pot
Everybody smoke pot.
Got one, got one
Everybody's got one.
This misheard lyric was brought up to John Lennon himself by an interviewer for Playboy in 1980, shortly before he was killed. He corrected the interviewer with the correct lyrics.
Standing in an English garden
Waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come
You have a tantrum
Standing in the English Rain.
Standing in an English garden
Waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come
You get a tan from
Standing in the English Rain.
Suddenly a pill chair climbing up the Eiffel Tower
Semolina Pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower
Yeah, I'm outta custard
Yellow matter custard
Yell amount of custard
Yellow matter custard
Yello Mello Custard
Yellow matter custard
Yellow man of custard
Yellow matter custard
Yellow man with custard tripping like a dead dog, aye.
Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Elementary penguin singing Merry Christmas
Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna
Everybody haha
Everybody's got one.
Expert, texter, smoking joker
Don't you think the joker laughs at you?
Expert, textpert, choking smokers
Don't you think the joker laughs at you?
Goo Goo Ca-choo
Goo goo g'joob!
ca-choo like a sneeze
I am a worrywart
I am the walrus
I am the Egbert
They are the Egberts
I am the eggman
They are the eggmen.
I am the apeman
I am the eggman
I am the egg-bound
They are the egg-bound.
I am the eggman
They are the eggmen.
I am the leg man
They are the leg men.
I am the eggman
They are the eggmen.
I am the walrus
Go cook a Jew
I am the walrus
Goo goo g’joob
Kookookachoo
Goo goo g'joob!
Oompa, oompa, everybody's f***ed up.
Oompa Oomapa, stick it up your jumper (pronounced "joompa")
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for Yvonne to come.
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
When you get down to the corner, rescue him
Sit you down father, rest you
Yeah, yeah, have my fortune cookie
The man maintains a fortune
Spoken in the background
Yellow mellow custard
Yellow matter custard
You damn father! Bless you!
Sit you down, Father. Rest you!