According to Kiss This Guy, the five “funniest misheard lyrics ever” are, in descending order, “Like a virgin touched for the thirty-first time” (Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”), “Now bring us some friggin’ pudding” (“We Wish You a Merry Christmas”), “The algebra has a devil for a sidekick” (Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”), “See that girl, watch her scream, kicking the dancing queen” (ABBA’s “Dancing Queen”), and “Might as well face it, you’re a dick with a glove” (Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love”).
After watching the video from Pleated Jeans below, which compiles some of the common mistaken song lyrics, I’d like to nominate “The white man has the power,” from the Doobie Brothers’ “What a Fool Believes,” to the list. Same for “I would beat off a guy” from “Blue (Da Ba Dee),” even if it TOTALLY ruined Eifel 65 for me.
It’s worth nothing that there’s no mention of Pearl Jam’s “Yellow Ledbetter.” No one knows what the hell is going on there. “I don’t, I don’t know where’s there’s a boxer in a bag”???
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My favorite misheard lyric is from that Christina Perri song:
“Who do you think you are, going ’round leaving scars, collecting your jar of farts…”
some of those were dumb! but pretty funny though.
I absolutely lost my mind laughing at AC/DC. I guess I expected Thunderchief and got caught off guard.
Seriously, who doesn’t sing “revved up like a douche, another runner in the night” when they hear that Manfred Mann song?
When I was young it was, “wrapped up like a douche, another rumor in the night.”
I am so glad I’m not the only one that hears revved up like a douche. I literally have no idea what else he could be saying there, and I refuse to ever look it up.
“Wrapped up like a douche in the middle of the night”
I assumed it was a simile for the way female hygiene products were packaged or disposed of at night.
How do you mishear the lyrics to the theme song of the movie right at the line that says the name of the movie? You’d have to be so dumb you’d qualify as clinically dead, and therefore an easy $10K (adjusting for inflation) for “those bastards”.
How do you not go further with that CCR song? “Theeeerreee’s a bathroom on the right”