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Song Mondegreens - Popular and Otherwise!

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6.9

Lee Ryan

Stand Up As People

Actual lyric

I breath before I sleep at night
I wait to find a clear blue sky

Misheard lyric

I pray before I sleep at night
I wait to find a clear blue sky

6.6

Avril Lavigne

Complicated

Actual lyric

Why do you have to go and make things so complicated?
I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else

Misheard lyric

Why do you have to go and make things so complicated?
I see the radio acting like you're somebody else

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8.8

Pantera

Walk

Actual lyric

Run your mouth when I'm not around...

Misheard lyric

Lock your mouth with a metal rod...

7.6

Heart

Alone

Actual lyric

Alone! Alone!

Misheard lyric

Oh Lord! Oh Lord!

*snicker*

7.4

Grand Funk Railroad

Some Kind of Wonderful

Actual lyric

Again again with me

Misheard lyric

Again again whip me

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8.4

Jimi Hendrix

Purple Haze

Actual lyric

Excuse me, while I kiss the sky

Misheard lyric

Excuse me, while I kiss the guy

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7.9

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Bad Moon Rising

Actual lyric

There's a bad moon on the rise

Misheard lyric

There's a bathroom on the right

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7.7

Black Sabbath

Paranoid

Actual lyric

I tell you to enjoy life...

Misheard lyric

I tell you to end your life...

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Blue Oyster Cult

Don't Fear the Reaper

Actual lyric

Here but now they're gone

Misheard lyric

Here put down that gun

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6.2

Jesse McCartney

Just So You Know

Actual lyric

I can't let him win now,
thought you should know

Misheard lyric

I can't let him win now,
fuck you should know

I know, I know, but due to my bad hearing this how I heard the lyric for almost a year...

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8.8

Gene Vincent

Be-Bop-A-Lula

"I come in dead drunk and stumble over the bed. And me and Don Graves were looking at this bloody book; it was called 'Little Lulu'. And I said, "Hell, man, it's 'Be-Bop-a-Lulu.' And he said, 'Yeah, man, swinging.' And we wrote this song" - Gene Vincent, 1970

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7.1

Iron Butterfly

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

A commonly related story says that the song's title was originally "In the Garden of Eden", but at one point in the course of rehearsing and recording, singer Doug Ingle got drunk and slurred the words, creating the mondegreen that stuck as the title

Hmm, being drunk sometimes has its advantages. Anyway, slurred words or not, it gave us one of the best titled rock songs in history. Got any other title which is *this* cool apart from Master of Puppets?

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What is the meaning of Mondegreen:

A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. It most commonly is applied to a line in a poem or a lyric in a song