Misheard lyrics (also called mondegreens) occur when people misunderstand the lyrics in a song. These are NOT intentional rephrasing of lyrics, which is called parody.
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This page contains a list of the songs that have stories about their misheard lyrics submitted.
Song names are sorted by first letter, excluding A and The. This is sorted by song title only, not
by song title and performer. So if two different performers preformed the same song, you'll see
misheard lyrics for both on the same page (provided the song title was spelt the same both times, and
misheard lyrics have been submitted for both!).
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I love the Japanese, ladies.
Our love's in jeopardy, baby.
The Story: My 'English as his second language' boyfriend asked me if I had heard the song 'I love the Japanese ladies.' I said no, so he began to sing. I laughed so hard and then informed him of what he was really singing. He was a bit embarassed about the whole event. - Submitted by: kim
I love you, Jeopardy, baby.
Our love's in jeopardy, baby.
The Story: Again, I was around 12 when this ditty came out, and I had no awareness of a game show by the same name. And all my classmates in that age group kept insisting I was wrong, but I stuck by my version until a few years later when I heard it remastered on CD and finally figured out the dadgum lyric. - Submitted by: Chris
I won on Jeopardy!, baby
Our loves in jeopardy, baby
The Story: I kept thinking it had to do with the game show Jeopardy!. Not to mention "Weird Al" Yankovic having a parody, "I Lost on Jeopardy!". - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Our love is definitely...maybe.
Our love's in jeopardy, baby.
The Story: My mother is actually who misheard it. She said she was always saying how clever the lyric "Our love is definitely...maybe" was, until she found out what the real lyric was! :) - Submitted by: Brent
Fly United, with my baby
Uh uh uh...
Reunited, with my baby
Uh uh uh...
The Story: During the summer when this song hit the radio and MTV, me and a cohort were on a flight to Chicago and we were in a conversation with a lovely airline stewardess to kill some time. The jet was owned and operated by United Airlines. - Submitted by: Sgt = a Lady, So Go For a Jet! JET!
They don't like my cat anymore
Babies don't like my cat anymore
They don't write 'em like that anymore
They just don't write 'em like that anymore
The Story: I kept thinking they don't like cats! - Submitted by: Cody Finke
B*****s don't ride on Grandaddy's Ford.
They just don't write like that anymore.
The Story: i knew they couldn't be the real lyrics, but that's all I could make out. I tried to ask a co-worker what the song was called, first by humming, then by whistling the melody-only making myself look sillier. Once I sang the song with the wrong lyrics, she knew what I was talking about and laughed and laughed at me. Eventually, she told me the real words once she caught her breath again. - Submitted by: joey b
Bitches don't write my dad anymore.
They just don't write 'em like that anymore.
The Story: I was about 10 when I first heard the song. Being the uncritical thinker that I was (read: "dumbass"), I figured everybody's dad had some "b***hes." So I asked my dad if he had any b***hes that didn't write to him anymore. He wasn't amused. - Submitted by: Timi Zhuo
They just don’t like my Dad anymore
They just don't write like that anymore.
The Story: My brother and I were 9 and 12 respectively. We’d sing that line with such enthusiasm and thought it was funny but didn’t know we had it wrong. - Submitted by: Kimberly
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