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Misheard lyrics (also called mondegreens) occur when people misunderstand the lyrics in a song. These are NOT intentional rephrasing of lyrics, which is called parody. For more information about the misheard lyrics available on this site, please read our FAQ.

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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Run-DMC's, "It's Tricky"
The Misheard Lyrics:
It's tricky to rock around
Rock around this right old town
The Real Lyrics:
It's tricky to rock a rhyme
To rock a rhyme that's right on time.
The Story: This is what I've thought the lyrics were since junior high school in the eighties. I only learned the correct words just now (Sept 2019), when I googled the song. - Submitted by: K W Russell
Run-DMC's, "It's Tricky"
The Misheard Lyrics:
It's tricky to rock around
To rock around this rotten town.
The Real Lyrics:
It's tricky to rock a rhyme
To rock a rhyme that's right on time.
The Story: I saw a Budweiser commercial and it had this song in it. I though this is what he said, so I looked it up and found out it was wrong! - Submitted by: Sven Torbersen
Run-DMC's, "It's Tricky"
The Misheard Lyrics:
It's tricky to rock around
To rock around, let's rot our town!
The Real Lyrics:
It's tricky to rock a rhyme
To rock a rhyme that's right on time
The Story: It's just how I heard it...Sounds really stupid now that I've seen the real lyrics! - Submitted by: Dick Laurent
Run-DMC's, "It's Tricky"
The Misheard Lyrics:
This Bitch is my Recital.
I think it's very vital.
The Real Lyrics:
This speech is my recital
I think it's very vital.
The Story: On MTV they bleep out "speech" and I read his lips to say BITCH! - Submitted by: Arkansas

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