Comedically Misheard Lyrics — Page 2

BroadwayConcierge said: ""I hid the letter and I raced to her place, screamed, 'I'LL CUT YOU IN THE FACE,' she said..."

I've been laughing at this since yesterday, and now every time I hear this song, these are the lyrics I hear. Although considering what Maria did to him, i think these lyrics are spot on lol

In "Seasons of Love," I always think it sounds like they're saying "in bitches" when they say "in inches," so I always laugh at that part.

And in "You're the One That I Want," I always hear, "You better prove that my baby's justified," which also makes me laugh, especially since the next lines are "Are you sure?/Yes I'm sure down deep inside."

Updated On: 1/15/17 at 08:21 PM

In the Heights finale . . . I heard the words "Dice are rolling, cool breezes whoa" accompanying what I believe are the most beautiful melodies in the show instead of "Hydrants are open, cool breezes blow."

Who can sing the word "hydrants" anyway?

I used to think it was "guns and ships and solar powered ships" which makes no sense!

And my sister thought the bit in Say No To This was "and I punched her in the face"

"Waterloo/ How does it feel yeah/ you won the war." At least hearing the original Abba version.

Some of you may know this already, but these are called "Mondegreens."

The derivation is a misheard line from way back in some poem or other. The original words were "And laid him on the green," meaning "set his corpse down in that place."

But someone thought it was "And Lady Mondegreen."

sing_dance_love said: ""There are those, I suppose
Think we're mad, heaven knows
The world has gone to IRAQ and to ruin"

Don't know why I never questioned why a show set in the 20s would have a random reference to the (then current) Iraq war when I first heard Millie, but I just accepted it! SMH now.


Are you sure that it's not "wreck"?



"To wrack [or rack] and to ruin" is an old expression.

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/148912/what-is-the-origin-of-the-term-going-to-wrack-and-ruin

In the In Transit clips, every time Seibert sings, "and getting there" I always hear "and getting laid"

Not really comedic, but to continue with another Chess example, until recently I always thought the line in "I Know Him So Well" was
" ...he needs a little bit more than before,"

but it's actually "... more than me more."

Two immediately come to mind. When I was a kid, listening to the OBC of CAMELOT, the line in C'est Moi goes 'had I been made the partner of Eve, we'd be in Eden still.' For years, I thought it was 'had I been made department of Eve . . . '

And a friend swears to this day that the line from Funny Girl (movie) is 'when you're a funny girl; the fellas out of money girl.'

Not particularly funny, but I used to hear the line 'Feminine envy' in 'The Opera' (Great Comet) as 'Ermine and envy'. I like mine better!

I also used to hear 'Whose songs are authentic as well' from 'Donny Novitski' (Bandstand) as 'Whose songs are all fair dink as well'. I thought Donny must have been stationed with some Australian troops at some stage during the war. I was impressed by the research the writers had put in.

Edit - forgot one: my English-attuned brain invariably mishears the key line 'Bei mir bist' ('You are with me' ) from the song 'Nichts ist schwer' (Elisabeth) as... 'Buy me a beer'. Molto romantico, eh?

Updated On: 2/19/19 at 04:40 AM

I think I've brought this one up before, but in the Les Mis song "Red and Black," my sister used to hear "Red, the blood of angry men/Black, the dog of Abraham . . ."