# Your favorite misheard lyric **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [July 21, 2000, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-misheard-lyric/26375 "2000-07-21T18:42:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Saysha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Saysha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saysha)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2000, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-misheard-lyric/26375/1 "2000-07-21T18:42:01Z")
Everyone knows some one that stands by a lyric that they think is right. My friend Darcee used to say: “Well, that’s how I say it” Used to drive me BATS!! Her best one (of many) was Aerosmiths Walk This Way: “Born to sway Born to sway…” Kristin was convinced that Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap was Dirty deeds THUNDER JEEP… ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2000, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-misheard-lyric/26375/2 "2000-07-21T18:44:25Z")
And the link to the Mailbag Answer is: [What is Aretha singing is “Respect”?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mrespect.html) ---
**Author:** ![Kyberneticist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kyberneticist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyberneticist)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2000, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-misheard-lyric/26375/3 "2000-07-21T23:16:17Z")
I’m personally getting a kick out of the link to a Copyright violating page after Manhattan reprimanded me (called me a jerk) and locked the thread after my linking to a page which described the extraction of LSA (a level III controlled substance!) from Morning Glory seeds. Course, posting instructions on such a subject is hardly illegal, lyrics sites, on the other hand, get pulled down all the time. Ah well, I’ll get over it. ---
**Author:** ![JonF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JonF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonF)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2000, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-misheard-lyric/26375/4 "2000-07-22T00:20:10Z")
I like my wife’s version of the Beatle’s lyric; “When I’m six feet four”. And the archetype Jimi Hendrix misinterpretation: “'Scuse me while I kiss this guy”. Speaking of which, [http://www.kissthisguy.com/](http://www.kissthisguy.com/) ---
**Author:** ![johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@johnson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnson)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2000, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-misheard-lyric/26375/5 "2000-07-22T02:15:37Z")
I often though a great trivia challenge was “name a song with ‘rhododendron’ in it.” The answer, of course… Pearl Jam’s _Daughter_… After several months, I realized it was “center of her own attention.” ---
**Author:** ![RickG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rickg/32/5174_2.png) [@RickG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickG)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2000, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-misheard-lyric/26375/6 "2000-07-22T05:52:38Z")
The San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll periodically publishes a column on the subject of ‘Mondegreens’ or misheard lyrics. They are often screamingly funny. Check out his Mondegreen page at [http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/mondegreens.shtml](http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/mondegreens.shtml) Rick ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2000, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-misheard-lyric/26375/7 "2000-07-22T18:18:24Z")
A great one from Musical theatre: Send in the Clown’s has the lyrice: Don’t you love farce/My fault I fear. Heard as Don’t you love farts/My fart I fear. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2000, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-misheard-lyric/26375/8 "2000-07-23T23:32:38Z")
**Kyberneticist** , maybe because there’s a big difference between a site that lists the complete lyrics of a song and a site that says: > [@](#): > > The real lyrics were: (single line–not entire lyrics) > But I misheard them as: > (single line of incorrect lyrics) I randomly clicked on at least 50 of the links available on that page and all but 1 of them had less than 10 words of actual lyrics. The one exception had 19 words.