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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!).
Queen - Greatest Hits album at Amazon.com
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, "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:
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:
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, "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:
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, "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:
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:
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:
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.
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.
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:
Galileo, Galileo
Galileo, Galileo
Galileo Peekaboo -- magnifico!
Galileo, Galileo
Galileo Peekaboo -- magnifico!
The Real Lyrics:
Gallileo, Gallileo
Gallileo, Gallileo
Gallileo Figaro -- magnifico!
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
Spare his this life from these pork sausages!
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.
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:
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:
Makes me laugh
No, we will not let you go.
No, we will not let you go.
The Real Lyrics:
Bismillah
No, we will not let you go.
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 killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled the trigger, now he's dead.
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.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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!
Look up to the sky,
And heave!
The Real Lyrics:
Open your eyes,
Look up to the sky,
And see!
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:
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:
So you think you can stop me from spinning my eyes
So you think you can dump me and then say goodbye!
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!
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:
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:
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, "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:
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'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:
Flash, aha
He's a billy goat.
He's a billy goat.
The Real Lyrics:
Flash, aha
He's a miracle.
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, "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:
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'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, "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, "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:
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:
She keeps mole weed and condos
In a pretty cabinet.
In a pretty cabinet.
The Real Lyrics:
She keeps Moet et Chandon
In her pretty cabinet.
In her pretty cabinet.
The Story: Someone caught me singing it, then asked what 'mole weed' was. - Submitted by: Sina
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:
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, "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:
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, "Somebody To Love"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Everybody wants a crocodile
They say I'm going crazy!
They say I'm going crazy!
The Real Lyrics:
Everybody wants to put me down
They say I'm going crazy.
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, "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, "We Will Rock You"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Mud on your face
Big disk brakes
Big disk brakes
The Real Lyrics:
Mud on your face
You big disgrace
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
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