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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Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a goose wearing neon tights
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
The Story: For years I thought these were the words. I was singing it once and mum thought I was completely bookers for thinking that the song was talking about geese wearing neon tights. - Submitted by: Alex Critchley
Gave my anus curly wurly
came in by his curly wurly
The Story: WTF? "came in by his curly wurly? What does that even mean? I also thought he was singing wrapped up like a douche.LOL! - Submitted by: Tatiana Deirdre
I'm hurt! She's mad!
I'm hers! She's mine!
The Story: I just think it's funny because what I misheard was the exact opposite of what the lyrics actually are. - Submitted by: Spencer Griffin
Holding my hand just as mental as can be.
Holding our hands just as natural as can be.
The Story: For the longest time I thought they were singing the word 'mental.' Whenever that part came on, it reminded me of Ed Grimley, I must say. But I soon found out that the word was actually 'natural.' I also thought that the word was 'gentle' when I submitted the same misheard lyric last week. Sorry about that. So the correct word is definitely 'natural.' - Submitted by: JD
I'm hurt, she's mad
I'm hers, she's mine
The Story: I did not understand that if he's hurt and she's mad, why are wedding bells going to chime? - Submitted by: Rich Audrain
Come on, look out
Come on, begin
Come on without
Come on within
The Story: I heard this in a rerun of a Jeopardy! episode from season 5, so I put it here. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
You not seen nothing like the mighty schwa
You ain't seen nothin' like the Mighty Quinn.
The Story: Did Schwinnn use these lyrics in a bicycle add: I heard these lyrics on a documentary a You Tube documentary The Bicycle - A Celebration of the Invention https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cut_sYkNcIM - Submitted by: Jeff
You've not seen nothing like the Mai-Day Queen
You'll not see nothing like the Mighty Quinn
The Story: Mai-Day Queen, as a German-English mixture for May Queen seemed to make more sense for looking at. - Submitted by: Redwing
Here we go, walking around like a flamingo
On our block all of the guys call her flamingo.
The Story: This version came from a guy I worked with in the 1980s. I considered telling him the real words, but considering his voice I declined because Manfred Mann never did me any harm. - Submitted by: John
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