Misheard Lyrics (with video clips). What have you misheard?
We’ve all done it. Heard a song, sang along certain that you have the words right until one of your mates starts pissing themselves saying, “sing that bit again” and you say, “sing what again?” and they say, “that last line”, so you say, “oh, you mean…” and it sets them off again until you realise, crap, that’s obviously not what it says.
Misheard lyrics are called Mondegreens, a phrase first coined in 1954 so it’s not a new thing. Two of the most misheard lyrics that I know of are in Purple Haze by Jimmy Hendrix where “Scuse me while I kiss the sky” seems to be heard as “Scuse me while I kiss this guy” and the ever famous Manfred Mann’s version of the Springsteen song Blinded by the Light where “revved up like a deuce” becomes “wrapped up like a douche”.
The radio station Triple J even had a segment for a while a few years ago called Charlene’s on Lightning from the mondegreen of “Sharif don’t like it” from Rock the Casbah by The Clash.
Here are a few of my faves. Enjoy!
The Clash - Rock the Casbah
Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter,
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Sean Paul - Temperature
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So what have you misheard? C'mon share with the group
Misheard lyrics are called Mondegreens, a phrase first coined in 1954 so it’s not a new thing. Two of the most misheard lyrics that I know of are in Purple Haze by Jimmy Hendrix where “Scuse me while I kiss the sky” seems to be heard as “Scuse me while I kiss this guy” and the ever famous Manfred Mann’s version of the Springsteen song Blinded by the Light where “revved up like a deuce” becomes “wrapped up like a douche”.
The radio station Triple J even had a segment for a while a few years ago called Charlene’s on Lightning from the mondegreen of “Sharif don’t like it” from Rock the Casbah by The Clash.
Here are a few of my faves. Enjoy!
The Clash - Rock the Casbah
Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter,
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Sean Paul - Temperature
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So what have you misheard? C'mon share with the group



























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Further to this and Jimi Hendrix having the most miheard there is a website called
Really Long Link
which contains the most misheard lyrics of all times
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