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!).
Astro Creep-2000 album at Amazon.com
Aw he a bad man by your demand
More human than human
The Story: I always liked this song when I was a kid but never what he was saying in the chorus. Then I went and bought the CD in the early 2000's and felt so dumb when I saw the song title! - Submitted by: John Johnson
Ball chew bam bamba chew chew bam
More human than human
The Story: It was summertime, and MTV was playing the music video all the time. We never found out the actual lyrics until months later. We were like 'Wow these guys are cracked out saying weird s***!' We just always sang it the wrong way. I think it's better the way we thought it went. - Submitted by: Paul Kim
Don't give me your heebies.
More human than human
The Story: I was at a White Zombie gig, trying to impress my brother's friends by saying that my favourite White Zombie song was the one about giving you the heebies. Blank looks were all around until I attempted to sing the song. - Submitted by: Diane
Falls you, bam, bam, buh, jooo.
More human than human
The Story: My sister was about 13 when she heard this song for the first time, and tried to make sense of the chorus. We busted up laughing over the apparently nonsensical phrase she came up with, and how fun it is to sing along with the new words. - Submitted by: Ed Cuchillo
Paul Newman, dance, you the man!
More human than human
The Story: I knew this could not be the real lyrics, but it sounds just like it if it's what you are expecting. - Submitted by: Oscar
Paul Newman dance, you da man!
More human than human
The Story: I'd always wondered why the hell Rob Zombie would sing a song about Paul Newman dancing, but whatever. One night I was reading a Guitar magazine with the sheet music to 'More Human than Human' (which is the chorus of that song, them singing 'more human than human/more human than human..'. And I felt like such an idiot. I'd told my friends about it, & they thought it was hilarious, & told a few other people & I got teased about it a lot, but that was OK because it is pretty funny. - Submitted by: Christin
White Zombie's,
"Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks, and Cannibal Girls"
Satan has your number
I'll take you to his side
Say that you love it
Don't make me turn it down
The Story: The lyrics are so muddied down with the music, that the way I heard it the first several times I listened to the song absolutely didn't match the lyrics when I found them. - Submitted by: Anonymous
There are more White Zombie misheard lyrics available.
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