# Best "Malaproped" Song Lyric

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-malaproped-song-lyric/37853>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 22, 2000, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-malaproped-song-lyric/37853 "2000-10-22T03:46:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-malaproped-song-lyric/37853/41 "2000-10-24T21:48:31Z")

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I almost forgot:

Artist: Weezer  
Song: (not sure)  
Real Lyric: “Why bother, it’s gonna hurt me, gonna kill me when you desert me”  
My Mondegreen: “My father’s gonna hurt me, gonna kill me when you desert me”

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**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2000, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-malaproped-song-lyric/37853/42 "2000-10-25T04:09:54Z")

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[QUOTE]  
\*Originally posted by betenoir \*  
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> \*Originally posted by DRY \*  
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> > There’s also the one French line in the Beatles’ “Michelle” which I had no clue what it meant. Didn’t even realize it wasn’t supposed to be English.  
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> “Sont les mot qui vont tres bien ensemble.  
> Tres bien ensemble”
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> My high school French tells me it’s “These are words that go together well” \*\*

I believe that’s right. Two years of French later (and having actually seen the printed lyrics), I can understand what it means.

At the time, it sounded like incomprehensible gibberish (not meant as an anti-French slam) or some sort of made up words. I didn’t hear it as “Someday monkey play piano song, play piano song” as one popular misrendition goes.

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**Author:** ![Renton\_lvr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@Renton\_lvr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renton_lvr)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2000, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-malaproped-song-lyric/37853/43 "2000-10-25T04:22:58Z")

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Artist: Frank Black  
Song: Cult of Ray  
Real lyric: Melting rock into metal  
Mondegreen: Milk and rotten tomato

It’s funny that most misheard lyrics are misheard as either sex related or food related.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2000, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-malaproped-song-lyric/37853/44 "2000-10-25T04:47:10Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by tracer \*  
> \*\*\*Boy the weakling millipede,  
> Songs that made the hit parade,  
> Guys like Esri had it made,  
> Those were the days!
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> And you know where you WUZZZZENNNN!!!  
> Goils wear goils and men wore men.  
> Mister we could use a manhole  
> Hoppy Hooper again.
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> Didn’t need Noel fair stay.  
> Ev’rybody pulled his way.  
> G.I. Joe, our cell rang ray.  
> Those were the daaaaaaaaaays!\* \*\*

I laughed at this so hard, I got a migraine!

But my all-time favorite is from “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (The Beatles):

“THE GIRL WITH COLITIS GOES BY.”

(should be: “the girl with kaleidoscope eyes.”

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