# YOUR misheard lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [August 6, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166 "2015-08-06T16:34:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 26
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/501 "2025-06-25T02:49:14Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > …a knight without honor in a savage land…” Yeah, I always heard 'armor\> But back to "_They call me Mellow Yellow_- “I’m just mad about Fourteen, she’s just mad about me” (actually it appears Donovan is supposedly singing “Fontine”: according to some sources. Of course “Fourteen” sounds a little creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/502 "2025-06-25T03:01:20Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > > [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > > > …a knight without honor in a savage land…” > > Yeah, I always heard 'armor\> Before my time. Never saw it. Never would have heard of it, except for _Stand By Me_ (and previously seeing business cards). > [@DrDeth](#): > > But back to "_They call me Mellow Yellow_- “I’m just mad about Fourteen, she’s just mad about me” (actually it appears Donovan is supposedly singing “Fontine”: according to some sources. Of course “Fourteen” sounds a little creepy. I’ve always heard it as _I’m just mad about Saffron, And she’s just mad about me_, which is apparently correct. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/503 "2025-06-25T03:09:09Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I’ve always heard it as _I’m just mad about Saffron, And she’s just mad about me_, which is apparently correct. That is true, but that is another verse entirely. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Before my time. Never saw it. Never would have heard of it, It is still on in reruns, and one of the best westerns on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/504 "2025-06-25T14:48:41Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > “I’m just mad about Fourteen, she’s just mad about me” Seriously? Fontine? Today I learned… I still think Stevie Nicks is singing about the one-winged dove. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/505 "2025-07-02T00:55:13Z")
Past corrugated tin shacks full up with kids And man, I don’t _need a hamster_ nursery ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/506 "2025-07-02T01:58:56Z")
What is the one above? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/507 "2025-07-02T02:12:33Z")
My guess is Middle of the Road, by the Pretenders? > **[Pretenders – Middle of the Road](https://genius.com/Pretenders-middle-of-the-road-lyrics)** > > Middle of the road / Is trying to find me / I'm standing in the middle of life with my plans behind me / But I got a smile / For everyone I meet / Long as you don't try dragging my _And man, I don’t mean a Hampstead nursery_ ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/508 "2025-07-02T02:16:28Z")
Thank you! I knew it sounded familiar. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/509 "2025-07-02T02:23:01Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > What is the one above? Yes, it would be helpful to identify the song, the actual lyric(s) and the misheard lyric(s). For example (from the OP): > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > _ **Gilligan’s Island** _ > Lyric: ‘From seven stranded castaways’ > Heard: ‘From Chevron-Standard castaways’ ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/510 "2025-07-02T02:28:15Z")
Maybe people could post their misheard lyrics and below that “spoiler” the correct lyrics. That way we could try to guess them. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/511 "2025-07-02T03:19:27Z")
Sorry, yes that’s from **The Pretenders**. To be fair, all those years that I thought it was a scathing critique of capitalist excess in the face of abject poverty perfectly fits with the rest of the lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/512 "2025-07-02T03:59:19Z")
From the same song: “I’m standing in the middle of life with my plans behind me” My brain tends to hear: “I’m standing in the middle of life with my pants behind me” ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/513 "2025-07-02T12:59:15Z")
Definitely “pants”. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/514 "2025-07-12T11:32:50Z")
Not misheard exactly, but I recently asked someone who knew better than me what was that happy opera song you hear a lot in commercials and stuff that starts ‘Don Donny Moby laid’? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/515 "2025-07-12T13:13:51Z")
I have no idea what song you’re talking about. The only ‘opera song’ that comes to mind is in the J.G. Wentworth commercials. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/516 "2025-07-12T14:53:05Z")
It’s La Donna e Mobile from Rigotello. After I found out the name I found a very young, yet still quite rotund, Pavarotti enjoying the heck out of singing it. I’d link but I’m on my very old notepad and I don’t know how. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/517 "2025-07-12T15:30:55Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > La Donna e Mobile from Rigotello Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/518 "2025-07-12T15:35:13Z")
Here for those who don’t know like me. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xCFEk6Y8TmM/hqdefault.jpg "Luciano Pavarotti - La Donna È Mobile (Rigoletto)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCFEk6Y8TmM) ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/519 "2025-07-14T11:38:04Z")
_‘Lost stolen or slain’ James James Morrison’s mother She seems to have been mislain._ The Chad Mitchell Trio’s “James James Morrison Morrison” – A A Milne’s poem “Disobedience” set to music. The correct words are _strayed_ and _mislaid_. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/520 "2025-07-14T11:57:36Z")
Sixpence None The Richer, Kiss Me. What I hear in that opening line (and anytime it repeats) is “Kiss Me, under the beans and barley”. Even when I first misheard that, I knew it was wrong but I had no idea what she was saying and there’s a local store called ‘beans and barley’ so my brain subbed in that instead. That song is pushing 30 years old (jesus christ that made me feel old) and it’s only in the last year or two that I finally got around to looking it up. I think even if I clearly heard her say “out on the bearded barley” I still would’ve assumed I misheard it. Bearded barley just isn’t a term I’d heard before I looked up the lyrics. For those that don’t know: Barley: [![](https://greatbasinseeds.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/iStock-1432697382-scaled-uai-1617x1617.jpg) ](https://greatbasinseeds.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/iStock-1432697382-scaled-uai-1617x1617.jpg) Bearded Barley: [![](https://assets.wfcdn.com/im/40735635/compr-r85/1414/141456824/Mixed+Assortment+Arrangement.jpg) ](https://assets.wfcdn.com/im/40735635/compr-r85/1414/141456824/Mixed+Assortment+Arrangement.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166.md?page=27)