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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Give me the Beach Boys and free Billy Joel.
Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul.
The Story: My sister told my dad that Billy Joel was in jail after she heard this song. - Submitted by: Denielle
Give me the bean boys, and free my soul.
Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul.
The Story: I totally thought it was give me the 'bean' boys. I would even sing along to it. Then one day, I was singing it when my brother was around. He was like, 'What did you just say?' So I repeated it, and he fell on the floor laughing! - Submitted by: Claire
And swim through your veins to take a piss in the sea
And swim through your veins like a fish in the sea
The Story: I was singing the song at my house and the part came up that I misheard, my sister asked me what I had just said and I told her. My boy friend was over and I had to bribe my lil sis so she wouldn't tell my boyfriend about my silly mistake. - Submitted by: sarah raun
Follow me
Everything is alright
I'll be the one
To tuck you in at night
And if you want to leave
I can guarantee
They will find your body in the sea.
Follow me
Everything is alright
I'll be the one
To tuck you in at night
And if you want to leave
I can guarantee
You won't find nobody else like me.
The Story: I head it first on the radio, and my mistake led me to believe it was some terrible pedophile jingle. Now that I've been corrected (some time later), I've come to prefer my 'original' version. - Submitted by: Scott
Swim through your veins like a p*** in the sea
And swim through your veins like a fish in the sea.
The Story: My mother was blaring the Uncle Kracker CD in the car while one of my friends was carpooling with us. When he heard this song, he started singing along with the misheard lyrics. At first, my mother was mad at him for the language, but she forgave him when she realized that that was actually what he thought the lyrics were. - Submitted by: Mayu
Valerie, everything is alright
Follow me, everything is alright
The Story: I could have sworn Uncle Kracker could have influenced Steve Winwood. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
You make me shine like a goat, buzz like a bee....
You make me shine like gold, buzz like a bee...
The Story: I seriously thought he was saying goat instead of gold, even though I had no idea how goats could be so shiny. One of my best friends then clued me in to the real lyrics after laughing hysterically. - Submitted by: Eli
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