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Following our rich tradition of mondegreen research (misheard song lyrics), I came across this video of Pearl Jam’s “Yellow Ledbetter” captioned completely in mondegreens:
The captions seem perfectly reasonable to me! (Via Mike McHargue)
hilarious.
posted by Mangesh on 6-4-2007 at 12:43 pm
OMG - I almost snarked diet coke out my nose!! That was hysterical! Great job
posted by JaneM on 6-4-2007 at 1:10 pm
This is art! Listening to the song and reading the mondegreen lyrics I couldn’t for the life of me remember the real ones!!
posted by priscilla on 6-4-2007 at 2:16 pm
That was so true, and so funny! “Make me fries.”
posted by Johnny Cat on 6-4-2007 at 4:01 pm
yeah, theres a whole string of youtube videos for fall out boy mondegreen lyrics
not without just cause for sure
but funny as heck
posted by annie on 6-4-2007 at 4:31 pm
Love it!
posted by Bassman on 6-4-2007 at 4:32 pm
I watched the vid with the real lyrics side by side, and I found the mondegreen version more plausible on the whole than the real ones. Is Eddie singing with slime mold in place of his tongue?
posted by marko on 6-4-2007 at 5:15 pm
I’ve got to have my hubby watch this one. We’re always listening to music in the car, having a hilarious time figuring out the lyrics. This will make him laugh.
Thanks!
Hm . . . now that I think about it, it was very well done. Wonder if that guy does weddings, ’cause I have some friends . . .
posted by Larissa on 6-4-2007 at 6:37 pm
that was incredibly funny! we need more of this.
posted by sandburr on 6-5-2007 at 5:24 am
Brings back memories of me being in a car in the 80’s (ok I am gonna admit this..) listening to the new Princ cassette and my boyfriend starts singing “YABBA DABBA DOO”… instead of “I would die for you”.. I never laughed so hard in my life
posted by JoAnn on 6-6-2007 at 5:09 pm
Fantastic. Potato wave!
posted by John on 6-7-2007 at 9:26 pm
Hilarious, but some warning would have been appreciated concerning the shot of Anna Nicole Smith’s breasts… Wouldn’t have gone to check it out had I known that was in there.
posted by Ishmael on 6-9-2007 at 8:54 pm
Classic!
posted by Angie on 6-10-2007 at 8:09 am
By far the best misheard lyrics I’ve seen. Perfect interpretation.
posted by Beth on 6-11-2007 at 9:28 pm
I’m confused….I thought those were the lyrics
posted by MB on 6-21-2007 at 4:24 pm