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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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Frank Sinatra's, "High Hopes"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Problem Kurb
The Real Lyrics:
(There goes another) problem Ker-Pop!
The Story: The first and second verses told about an ant and a ram whose High Hopes helped them succeed. I thought the bit the kids sang in the interlude, and which Sinatra continued with, was a third example, about a "Problem Kurb." And I came up with a "Mr. Zurb" to go along with it, just as there was an ant for the rubber-tree plant and a ram for the billion-kilowatt dam. Hey, I thought it was logical! - Submitted by: Doug Montgomery
Frank Sinatra's, "Jingle Bells"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Dashing through the snow (Pluto)
In a one-horse open sleigh (Today)
The Real Lyrics:
Dashing through the snow (To-doh)
In a one-horse open sleigh (Today)
The Story: I thought I heard the backup singers sing the name of either the smallest planet or Mickey Mouse's pet dog. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Frank Sinatra's, "Luck Be a Lady"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And so the best I can do is play
The Real Lyrics:
And so the best I can do is pray
The Story: It made sense to hear play since it sounds like gambling at a Las Vegas casino. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Frank Sinatra's, "Luck Be a Lady"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Luck be a baby tonight
The Real Lyrics:
Luck be a lady tonight
The Story: I kept thinking it had to do with baby - yet lady made more sense. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Frank Sinatra's, "My Way"
The Misheard Lyrics:
All summer long we sang a song
And then we strolled that golden sand
But more, much more than this
I did it my way
The Real Lyrics:
I've lived a life that's full
I traveled each and every highway
But more, much more than this
I did it my way
The Story: Confusing one Sinatra classic with another, in this case, "The Summer Wind". - Submitted by: S. Tim Wood
Frank Sinatra's, "Strangers in the Night"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Little Debbie knows
The Real Lyrics:
Little did we know
The Story: I also had a hunch with this, thanks to the famous "Pepperidge Farm remembers" slogan. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Frank Sinatra's, "Strangers in the Night"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Scooby-dooby-doo
The Real Lyrics:
Doo-bee-doo-bee-doo
The Story: I really thought that's what he said, like the theme song from Scooby Doo, Where Are You?. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Frank Sinatra's, "Strangers in the Night"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Wandering in the night
The Real Lyrics:
Wondering in the night
The Story: How I often confused "wander" with "wonder", and vice versa. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Frank Sinatra's, "The Christmas Waltz"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Frosted little flakes
The Real Lyrics:
Frosted window panes
The Story: It sounded like it could have been a reference to Tony the Tiger. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Frank Sinatra's, "Theme from 'New York New York'"
The Misheard Lyrics:
This sack of brown shoes
Are melting away.
The Real Lyrics:
These little town blues
Are melting away.
The Story: The misheard lyric is from the lyric section of a badly transcribed Asian bootleg. We were in a recording session, and one of the musicians brought it in. Everyone started laughing so hard, we couldn't get anything recorded for a half hour or so. - Submitted by: Lotta Bass
Frank Sinatra's, "Theme from New York, New York"
The Misheard Lyrics:
These Middletown blues
The Real Lyrics:
These little town blues
The Story: Sounded like I heard it was referring to Middletown in Orange County, NY. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Frank Sinatra's, "Young at Heart"
The Misheard Lyrics:
If you are a mungleberry young at heart
The Real Lyrics:
If you are amongst the very young at heart
The Story: What is a mungleberry? I don't know. By the way, this misheard lyric was not my own. It appeared in a newspaper column. - Submitted by: Scott McPhee

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