Today’s misheard song lyrics (mondegreens) are continued from your contest entries. Between hellfire and cigarettes, it seems like folks were in a grim mood while they listened to this music! I hope your weekend promises to be happier than some of these lyrics!
| Song Title | Artist/Group | Actual Lyrics | Mondegreen |
| Whole Lotta Love | Led Zeppelin | You need coolin’, baby I’m not foolin’. | You need Kool-Aid, baby I’m not a fool yeah. |
| Elvira | Oak Ridge Boys | Elvira! Elvira! | Hell fire up! Hell fire up! |
| Ridin’ the Storm Out | REO Speedwagon | Ridin’ the storm out | Night with a small mouse |
| Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap | AC/DC | Dirty deeds and they’re done dirt cheap | Dirty deeds and the dunder chief |
| Addicted to Love | Robert Palmer | Might as well face it, you’re addicted to love | Might as well face it, you’re a-ch-ch-ch love |
| I Heard It Through It Through the Grapevine | Marvin Gaye | I heard it through the grapevine | I hurried through the grapevine
KC – Nobody in Southern California would believe anyone hurried through The Grapevine. |
| Come on Eileen | Dexys Midnight Runners | Too-ra-loo-rye, aye | Two raw eggs |
| All the Single Ladies | Beyonce | All the single ladies,
All the single ladies, All the single ladies, All the single ladies Now put your hands up! |
I need a cigarette,
I need a cigarette, I need a cigarette, I need a cigarette Now put your hands up! |
| Christ Arose | Ventura Church of Christ,
Hymn by Robert Lowry 1874 – Hymns for Worship |
Low in the grave He lay, Jesus my Savior | Low in the gravy He laid, Jesus my Savior |
| Winter Wonderland | Various | Later on, we’ll conspire
As we dream, by the fire |
Later on, we’ll perspire
As we dream by the fire |
| Forever Man | Eric Clapton | I’ll try to be your forever man | I’ll try to be your bald-headed man |
| Umbrella | Rihanna | You can stand under my umbrella—ella—ella-eh, eh, eh, eh | You can stand under my arm foreva, eva, eva, eh, eh |
| We Didn’t Start the Fire | Billy Joel | Stark weather, homicide, children of thalidomide | Stark weather, homicide, children of the little mind |
Kara Church
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