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Chris Higgins
Misheard Lyrics: Pearl Jam’s “Yellow Ledbetter”
by Chris Higgins - June 4, 2007 - 11:12 AM

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)

Comments (17)
  1. hilarious.

  2. OMG – I almost snarked diet coke out my nose!! That was hysterical! Great job

  3. This is art! Listening to the song and reading the mondegreen lyrics I couldn’t for the life of me remember the real ones!!

  4. That was so true, and so funny! “Make me fries.”

  5. yeah, theres a whole string of youtube videos for fall out boy mondegreen lyrics
    not without just cause for sure
    but funny as heck

  6. Love it!

  7. 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?

  8. 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 . . .

  9. that was incredibly funny! we need more of this.

  10. 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

  11. Fantastic. Potato wave!

  12. 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.

  13. Classic!

  14. By far the best misheard lyrics I’ve seen. Perfect interpretation.

  15. I’m confused….I thought those were the lyrics

  16. what people seem to be missing is that this song was a cover done by pearl jam. not really a pearl jam song.

  17. What you also seem to be missing is that “Yellow Ledbetter” is supposed to be one gigantic mondegreen. Vedder has said in the past that the lyrics are different every time he sings it.

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