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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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The Rolling Stones', "19th Nervous Breakdown"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Here comes your 1930s breakdown.
The Real Lyrics:
Here comes your 19th nervous breakdown.
The Story: For the longest time, I thought this was a song about the Great Depression, but I couldn't find the song on any albums. I found the song by accident on an old LP, and only then did I find out what the real lyrics for. - Submitted by: Patrick
The Rolling Stones', "Beast Of Burden"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I'd never pee if your feet were burnin'.
The Real Lyrics:
I'll never be your beast of burden.
The Story: I thought these were the right lyrics because I heard the song just after I had watched that Friends' episode when the gang go down to a beach house and Monica gets stung by a jelly fish and Joey has to pee on her leg, because Chandler saw on the Discovery Channel something about urine helping to ease the pain from a jelly fish sting. I heard this song for the first time featured on the movie 'Christine', and since they only played this line on the movie, I thought these were the real lyrics. I always thought this song was about someone who hates and despises a peson so much that he wouldn't even piss on him/her if it would bring some comfort to this person. I always thought the song had a great sound, and the lyrics were whimsically cruel and funny at the same time, which prompted me to look for the song, but it took me years until I rented the movie and saw the song title on the credits, realizing how wrong I was Needless to say I was a tad disapointed, but I still love this song. - Submitted by: Louis
The Rolling Stones', "Beast Of Burden"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I'll never leave your pizza burnin'.
The Real Lyrics:
I'll never be your beast of burden.
The Story: A local radio station in the Dallas-Fort Worth area asked people to call in with what they thought the lyrics were, and this was my favorite answer. I hope you have a good laugh too. =) - Submitted by: TEAH PETTIT
The Rolling Stones', "Brown Sugar"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Old Joe said she copped a pile of pills
Sold in the market down in New Orleans.
Sold in the market down in New Orleans.
The Real Lyrics:
Gold Coast slaveship bound for cotton fields
Sold in the market down in New Orleans.
Sold in the market down in New Orleans.
The Story: I'm a professional bassist and in the first band that I was ever in that worked for money, (the summer I was 16 - 1971). We had a steady gig in a bar in Cedar Grove NJ. All the other guys in the band were in college with my big sister. This tune was sung by the drummer, and this was the closest he could get to making out Jagger's lyrics in the fiirst verse. It actually makes more grammatical sense than the real ones (What were sold in the market? The pills!) - Submitted by: John Arbo
The Rolling Stones', "Get Off My Cloud"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Hey! You! Get off of my plow!
The Real Lyrics:
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud!
The Story: It was actually my friend Tina. I was visiting her out in Illinois. We were driving around singing at the top of our lungs when I heard her blurt out this lyric. I couldn't stop laughing. I guess it makes perfect sense in the cornbelt. I tried to do my best impersonation of Mick Jagger dancing on top of a plow, clucking around like a chicken. - Submitted by: Terry Thorsen
The Rolling Stones', "Jumping Jack Flash"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Jumping Jack Flash is an a** a** a**.
The Real Lyrics:
Jumping Jack Flash is a gas gas gas.
The Story: I was watching the movie 'Jumping Jack Flash' and when it played the song, I burst into laughing. - Submitted by: Adam
The Rolling Stones', "Miss You"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I've been hauling a** so long.
The Real Lyrics:
I've been holding out so long.
The Story: I was sitting at Steb's Amusement in Cedar Falls, Iowa on a chilly Saturday morning in October 1978. This song came on the jukebox. The guy sitting next to me overheard me sing the words and he said, 'I always thought it was 'I've been hauling a** so long.' It gave everyone at the bar a good laugh and I'm glad I've got a chance to pass it along. - Submitted by: Annette Clabough-Redman
The Rolling Stones', "Mother's Little Helper"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Doctor please. Zipora please.
The Real Lyrics:
Doctor please, some more of these.
The Story: When I heard the song, I thought that line was a conversation between the doctor and the stressed out mother named Zipora, which happens to be my mother's name. - Submitted by: Osnat
The Rolling Stones', "Ruby Tuesday"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Goodbye U.C.Q.B.
The Real Lyrics:
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
The Story: I work for a law publishing company. U.C.Q.B. is the abbreviation for a 19th century Ontario Canada law report (Upper Canada Queen's Bench) which new editors have never heard of, so we get a lot of questions about it. We'd like to get rid of it, and so ... - Submitted by: Michael Chas
The Rolling Stones', "Satisfaction"
The Misheard Lyrics:
When a man comes on and tells me
How white my church can be
How white my church can be
The Real Lyrics:
When a man comes on and tells me
How white my shirts can be
How white my shirts can be
The Story: Always thought he was trying to make a statement about religious hypocracy. - Submitted by: Rich
The Rolling Stones', "Start Me Up"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Hey, A-stra-phia
A-stra-phia, never stop.
A-stra-phia, never stop.
The Real Lyrics:
If you start me up
If you start me up, I'll never stop.
If you start me up, I'll never stop.
The Story: After seeing the Rolling Stones at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, we walked down Broad Street toward City Hall because the subway was too crowded. As we walked on of my friends was singing the misheard lyric...like he wrote the song. He truly believed that's what they were singing. I sing "A stra-phia" every time I hear that song. - Submitted by: Rich
The Rolling Stones', "Start Me Up"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Prokofiev!
I'll make of you a superstar
Don't make a strong man cry.
I'll make of you a superstar
Don't make a strong man cry.
The Real Lyrics:
If you start me up!
If you start me up
I'll never stop
You make a grown man cry.
If you start me up
I'll never stop
You make a grown man cry.
The Story: I didn't think Jagger was really singing about 19th Century composers, but it was only hearing it sung by Seamus on the Joseph auditions that I realised what the lyrics really were. - Submitted by: Philsister
The Rolling Stones', "Start Me Up"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You made it groan, made it cry
The Real Lyrics:
You made a grown man cry
The Story: I was born in the late sixties and have always loved music from the 50's on. The song came on one of those flashback stations, and I started singing it. Then I got to the lyrics mentioned and really started singing loud. My oldest sister looked at me and asked me what I had said. When I told her, she burst out laughing and told me, 'It's you made a grown man cry' you idiot! I can laugh about it now, but when it happened . . . - Submitted by: sillygirll
The Rolling Stones', "Sympathy For The Devil"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I stuck around, said 'Beatles burn!'
The Real Lyrics:
I stuck around St. Petersburg.
The Story: I thought it was about the Beatles burnings in 1966, so when my father, me, and my brother was watching 'Live At The Max' and they played 'Sympathy For The Devil' I sang: 'I stuck around, said Beatles burn!' My father is kind of a big Stones fan, so he and my brother laughed at me. My brother said: 'Just because you´re Beatles obsessed it doesn´t mean everything is about them.' and then my father told me the real lyrics. I still think it sounds like 'Beatles burn!' anyway. - Submitted by: Dennis
The Rolling Stones', "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You can't always get a chihuahua.
The Real Lyrics:
You can't always get what you want.
The Story: One day on the radio, I heard the dj ask for misheard song lyrics. This was his favorite one. The person who called in said he couldn't understand why the Rolling Stones wrote a song about a little Mexican dog. - Submitted by: JWinn
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