Beinah, beinah, beinah,
Beinah wärs passiert
https://youtu.be/vU2b4ubuWNM

#mondegreen #misheardlyrics

Discovered after hearing a cover version today that the backing vocal behind the chorus here is not "then she saw his eyes" as I've thought since around 1984, but is in fact "Les yeux sans visage" (the title of the song in french) #mondegreen

*to be fair 1984 me was very young and did not know any french, vs 2023 me who knows just enough french to translate the phrase

Eyes Without a Face - Billy Idol (1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OFpfTd0EIs

I remember this one Latin kid at work thought that Jason Derulo - Ridin’ Solo was “Riding Cholo” and that’s gotta be the funniest #Mondegreen I’ve ever heard.

I was disappointed to learn tonight that the Sarah Vaughan song Jim is not a tongue in cheek parody of jazz love songs with a tale of a woman and her favourite spirit, gin

#mondegreen

In "I'll never fall in love again" I always thought Bobbie Gentry sung "he'll never bone ya" but it was "he'll never phone ya".

The song sounds more modern than 1969 and I guess that's why I thought it was more salacious!

#mondegreen

Are you getting these phrases wrong too? | EGGCORNS - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F12LSAbos7A

Oh finally, someone tackles those ridiculous phrases so many use without thinking.

Ex. "free reign" should be "free rein".

#Language #English #Eggcorn #Malapropism #Mondegreen

Misheard the lyrics here as "upstairs like a seance in an airfield" and I 💯 prefer my version.
#dailypoetry #lyrics #mondegreen

https://open.spotify.com/track/7EVk9tRb6beJLTHrg6AkY9?si=a9m-afg_RCirwht3-ZAwDQ

Battles by Atlas.

The beefaroni song.

You can't unhear it.

#beefaroni #music #mondegreen
https://youtu.be/IpGp-22t0lU

https://youtu.be/Rpq35wyDi7I

OK, am I the one who hears the #mondegreen "wrapped up like a douche" instead of "revved up like a deuce" for this song? It catches me every time.

#mondegreen
#misheardlyrics
#hoobastank

my other favourite #mondegreen #MisheardLyrics comes from CSS:

"music is my favourite waitress"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csSdrJEdlx8

got the tunes on random/shuffle today and I just heard my all time favourite #mondegreen, from Slim Harpo's Tip On In:

"let me feel those fish nipples"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ4hy2U4Zwg

it cracks me up every time I hear it 😺

anyway, please tell me your favourite #MisheardLyrics

got the tunes on random/shuffle today and I just heard my all time favourite #mondegreen, from Slim Harpo's Tip On In:

"let me feel those fish nipples"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mtWnFI0jbE

it cracks me up every time I hear it 😺

anyway, please tell me your favourite #MisheardLyrics

Now the oboe may be barely breathin’
But the heart of rock & roll’s still beatin’

#mondegreen #MisheardLyrics

It's not a #mondegreen if you heard it right, but remember it wrong -- e.g. the song "Kokomo" does not rhyme "Key Largo" with "pretty Margot" or "grain embargo." They also did not rhyme "Montego" with "lumbago"
#weirdness

Story time

When I was younger I thought the lyrics to Robert Palmer's “Johnny & Mary” were:

Johnny's alway running around, trying to find serpenty

Now “serpenty” isn’t actually a word, but it sure looks like it *could* be one. I guess I was somehow conflating "serpent" and “serendipity”, but who knows, really?

The actual word, “certainty”, was a bit of a letdown, tbh.

#MisheardLyrics #RobertPalmer #JohnnyAndMary #Mondegreen

Nor do they say "I don't even care, you can only please
yourself
yourself
yourself"
loool.

#mondegreen

@AmishSuperModel "The girl with colitis goes by." #mondegreen

@kbradnam The hashtag you are looking for is #Mondegreen!

I had always assumed that the lyrics at the start and end of #PeterGabriel's song 'Games without frontiers' were:

'She's so popular'.

Turns out that they are actually 'Jeux sans frontiérs'.

You learn something new every day (or ever forty years or so as the case may be)!

#SongLyrics #MisheardLyrics #Mondegreen