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This page contains a list of the songs that have stories about their misheard lyrics submitted.

Song names are sorted by first letter, excluding A and The. This is sorted by song title only, not by song title and performer. So if two different performers preformed the same song, you'll see misheard lyrics for both on the same page (provided the song title was spelt the same both times, and misheard lyrics have been submitted for both!).


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Alabama's, "Angels Among Us"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I believe there are angels with fungus.
The Real Lyrics:
I believe there are angels among us.
The Story: My best friend's name is Angel, and her brothers always teased her about having fungus. I translated it for them nearly two years ago, but they didn't care; they are having too much fun with the misheard ones. - Submitted by: Rainbow Pickle
Alabama's, "Cheap Seats"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We got a great picture of what's his name.
Well, we can't even spell it.
The Real Lyrics:
We got a great pitcher, what's his name.
Well, we can't even spell it.
The Story: Well, in my defense I have to say that 'picture' is pronounced 'pitcher' by many southern people. I was thinking these lines were about the person who originally donated the money to build the ball park, like there was a picture of him on display but it was really old and nobody really knew who he was any more, there was just this picture there. - Submitted by: Carolee
Alabama's, "Christmas in Dixie"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Crank slab's all in lights.
The Real Lyrics:
Graceland's all in lights.
The Story: It was near Christmas. A friend at work new I had lived in Memphis. He asked me if I had been to see the crank slab. I said 'What?', and he goes on about the song; and I'm just dying laughing. - Submitted by: Ricky K
Alabama's, "Dixieland Delight"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Spend my dollar, bark and holler.
The Real Lyrics:
Spend my dollar, parked in a holler.
The Story: Someone in my online game squadron was singing this, and this is what I thought I heard. Once he set me straight, I also found out that the song was Dixie Dandelion, not Dixie Band Delight, Dixie Dan Delight, or Dixieland Delight. I thought it was Dixieland Delight for 20 years. - Submitted by: Andy Nelson
Alabama's, "Dixieland Delight"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Spend my dollar
In Hartfield Holler
'Neath the mountain moonlight.
The Real Lyrics:
Spend my dollar
Parked in a holler
'Neath the mountain moonlight.
The Story: My maiden name is Hartfield. So when I was a child, I always thought they were saying, 'Spend my dollar in Hartfield Holler.' - Submitted by: Elvora
Alabama's, "Feels So Right"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Pencil writes
The Real Lyrics:
Feels so right
The Story: We were riding along in the car and this song came on. My 7 year old son promptly started singing along with the song 'ooh ooh ooh pencil writes'. He thought that it made perfect sense being that he was 6 at the time and in first grade. - Submitted by: Gina Mathews
Alabama's, "If Your Gonna Play In Texas"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I remember down in Houston we were putting on a show
When a cowboy in the back stood up and yelled, 'Hot nachos!'.
The Real Lyrics:
I remenber down in Houston we were putting on a show
When a cowboy in the back stood up and yelled, 'Cotton-eye Joe!"
The Story: I asked my dad if he remembered the song that says 'Hot nachos'. And he asked, 'What are you talking about?' - Submitted by: Shane
Alabama's, "Love in the First Degree"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Baby you left me in Memphis
I've only got one knee
The Real Lyrics:
Baby you left me defenseless
I've only got one plea
The Story: Well I was 9 when this song came out & learning geography. So I thought I was the s*** one day in the car with my parents & sang this at the top of my lungs, very proud of the fact that I knew where Memphis was & that I knew the song by heart (so I thought) I also had to make a comment about how she was mean for leaving him after his leg was removed. Needless to say, Mom & Dad got a good laugh & I got teased for quite a while. - Submitted by: TheWorldisGoingMental
Alabama's, "Mountain Music"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Playin' baseball in church lots
It ain't wrong; is that so bad?
The Real Lyrics:
Playin' baseball with chert rocks
Usin' sawmill slabs for bats
The Story: For the longest time, I held a strange and romantic notion that Southern kids would traditionally gather in their local churches' parking lots for pick-up games of baseball, until they were shooed away by the pastor or grounds keeper. The kids never saw any harm in their games...they were only having fun. I checked out the lyrics today, and you know, baseball played with crystal-rich rocks and pieces of wood is so much more romantic an image than mine. :-) - Submitted by: Sean Wilkinson
Alabama's, "Mountain Music"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Playin' baseball with cherry drops
The Real Lyrics:
Playin' baseball with chert rocks
The Story: We used to use crabapples to throw at one another while using garbage can lids (metal lids) as shields. I assumed a cherry drop was a similar item, and that they used them to play baseball! - Submitted by: DubsJ
Alabama's, "Mountain Music"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Playing baseball with shirt drops
The Real Lyrics:
Playing baseball with chert rocks
The Story: Before I learned that chert was the name of a kind of rock, I thought they were playing baseball with the shirts of some players perhaps dropped on the ground to mark the bases. The only rock I've ever hit with a bat were casually tossed lumps of caliche, but those tend to explode into dust when hit. - Submitted by: Russell
Alabama's, "Mountain Music"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Playing baseball with shirts off.
The Real Lyrics:
Playing baseball with chert rocks.
The Story: You know how there's "The Shirts" VS "The Skins" in all redneck competitive sports. Haha it sounded natural to me. - Submitted by: Liz P
Alabama's, "Mountain Music"
The Misheard Lyrics:
bending over, skinning cats
The Real Lyrics:
Climb a long, tall hickory, bend it over, skinning cats
The Story: "Skinning cats" is another old time fav here in the south that very few outsiders will ever know about. It's a test of manhood more than a game. You find a "long, tall hickory" tree, not a sapling but not old, and climb it. You keep going higher and higher till you get as high as you can and the tree starts bending. If you're lucky, you can go so far as to get your feet back to the ground....if not, you can't go back so your only choice is to let go and hope you aren't too high. Done right, you get bad rope burns on your hands and a real slap in the face....wrong, you get worse burns, and a welt to last a week. - Submitted by: Drahcirl
Alabama's, "Mountain Music"
The Misheard Lyrics:
playing baseball with turd blocks...
The Real Lyrics:
playing baseball with chirt rocks
The Story: took me a while to find the correct lyrics...glad I did, I feel REALLY dumb! - Submitted by: stillwatchcollie
Alabama's, "Mountain music"
The Misheard Lyrics:
"cherd rocks"
The Real Lyrics:
Playing baseball with chert rocks
Using sawmill slats for bats
The Story: Chert (flint) is found in small, round nodules in chalky soil. Southern children have used them for generations as everything from marbles to baseballs to bowling balls. Giving a girl your favorite chert rock was seen as the highest form of romance at one time. - Submitted by: Drahcirl
Alabama's, "My Home's In Alabama"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Reagan was forbidden in my Christian country home.
The Real Lyrics:
Drinking was forbidden in my Christian country home.
The Story: First Time I heard this song was in 1980, and Ronald Reagan was running for President against Jimmy Carter. I thought for a moment it was a 6 and a half minute radio commercial. Made no sense because they were saying 'My home's in Alabama', and Carter was from Georgia. - Submitted by: Dan Fletcher
Alabama's, "Reckless"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Love is reckless
Let's get breakfast tonight.
The Real Lyrics:
Love is reckless
Let's get reckless tonight
The Story: After learning the correct lyric, I still thought my mistake would have made a great ad campaign for Perkins or some other 24-hour restaurant. - Submitted by: ALLENMcKAY
Alabama's, "Roll On (18 Wheeler)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Roll on, aging wiener, roll on.
The Real Lyrics:
Roll on, 18 wheeler, roll on.
The Story: My mom just couldn't understand why Alabama was singing about old hot dogs! - Submitted by: Beth
Alabama's, "Song of the South"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Sweet cherry pie and I shut my mouth
The Real Lyrics:
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth
The Story: I always could have sworn it was this till at a football game I heard sweet potato pie and it blew my mind. I asked my friends to sing it and they said cherry to weird. - Submitted by: Parker Owens

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