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31 March 2008
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It’s not really a misheard lyric, more a case of limited vocabulary. My son Ted’s nearly three and loves The Beatles. He’s particularly obsessed with Yellow Submarine so we watch it a lot.
The other day Hey Bulldog was on the TV. “Look Ted, it’s Hey Bulldog !” I said.
“No Daddy, it’s Poodog.”
“No Ted, it’s called Hey Bulldog .”
“No Daddy, it’s not, it’s Poodog.”
So now we’ve started calling it Poodog. I’m particularly amused by the idea that The Beatles actually might have written, recorded and released a song called Poodog. In the mind of a two-year-old it’s not strange in any way.
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6 August 2013
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It’s not really a misheard lyric, more a case of limited vocabulary. My son Ted’s nearly three and loves The Beatles. He’s particularly obsessed with Yellow Submarine so we watch it a lot.The other day Hey Bulldog was on the TV. “Look Ted, it’s Hey Bulldog !” I said.
“No Daddy, it’s Poodog.”
“No Ted, it’s called Hey Bulldog .”
“No Daddy, it’s not, it’s Poodog.”So now we’ve started calling it Poodog. I’m particularly amused by the idea that The Beatles actually might have written, recorded and released a song called Poodog. In the mind of a two-year-old it’s not strange in any way.
At least your two year old listens to the Beats. So far, I can’t get my four year old interested, even with the more “kid-friendly” stuff. I don’t want to cram their music down his throat (surefire way to turn it off for him)… maybe he’ll be like me and discover them later on when he gets a bit older.
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12.53pm
31 March 2008
Offline I don’t doubt in years to come he’ll turn away from all that old stuff, before hopefully coming back to it when his tastes mature. I started sowing the seeds very early, though, singing Yeah, yeah, yeah and Na-na-na-nah to him so he started absorbing the songs. I hate most music made specifically for kids – I’d much rather do it this way.
The other day I was in the car with Ted and my dad. LITSWD came on and I said “Ted, what’s this?” He said: “Lucy sky with diamonds and it’s John singing.” He can do that for a lot of songs now. My dad could barely believe it.
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6 August 2013
Offline Joe said
I don’t doubt in years to come he’ll turn away from all that old stuff, before hopefully coming back to it when his tastes mature. I started sowing the seeds very early, though, singing Yeah, yeah, yeah and Na-na-na-nah to him so he started absorbing the songs. I hate most music made specifically for kids – I’d much rather do it this way.
The other day I was in the car with Ted and my dad. LITSWD came on and I said “Ted, what’s this?” He said: “Lucy sky with diamonds and it’s John singing.” He can do that for a lot of songs now. My dad could barely believe it.
That’s how I tried to do it, but so far, no dice. Now, if you want to hear an exact rendering of the Special Agent Oso theme from him, no problem.
Guess it’s all part of the plan… more or less… (if you’ve seen Oso, then that line will make sense)
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8 February 2014
Offline Joe said
It’s not really a misheard lyric, more a case of limited vocabulary. My son Ted’s nearly three and loves The Beatles. He’s particularly obsessed with Yellow Submarine so we watch it a lot.
It’s not really a misheard lyric, more a case of too big a vocabulary 
In ‘Let em In’, I knew the line was “Auntie Gin”, but I always pictured “antigen” in my mind for some reason.
4.15pm
18 January 2014
Offline I love reading about other peoples’ actual misinterpretations of lyrics. I find most of the “commonly misheard lyrics” lists to be a bit of a stretch. Like “Chicken to Ride”. I’ve never heard it that way and don’t know anyone that has, but it pops up in lists like that all the time. It would be a little more plausible if it was a lyric that wasn’t also the title of the song.
I’m actually having trouble thinking of many lyrics I’ve misheard. I’ve read the lyrics to most Beatles songs long enough ago that I can’t really remember what I used to think they were saying in most cases. The “semolina pilchard” line from IATW is one that sticks out. I used to sing “salmonella pill-jar”. Made as much sense as any other line in that song I guess. 
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16 December 2013
Offline Michelle , ma belle, someday we’ll be born tre—- what? Tres bien ensamble? Isn’t that french?
Yes, it took me quite some time to actually realise the whole line is in French.
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21 November 2012
Offline Oh yeah I remember a funny interpretation of that bit of Michelle . I think it’s a few pages back.
I think someone heard it as ”Michelle , ma belle, sunday monkey won’t play piano song, play piano song”. For a long time afterwards I couldn’t hear it the right way anymore, but like that.
By the way, it took me a while to figure that line out too.
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Oh yeah I remember a funny interpretation of that bit of Michelle . I think it’s a few pages back.I think someone heard it as ”Michelle , ma belle, sunday monkey won’t play piano song, play piano song”. For a long time afterwards I couldn’t hear it the right way anymore, but like that.
By the way, it took me a while to figure that line out too.
Not knowing French, I figured out ‘tres bien ensemble’, but not the rest. I just looked it up and I couldn’t type it from memory. sonts something lol. When you see the translation it’s like, duh. And he won the Legion of Honor or the Order of the Palm ( or some French medal for the song?
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Michelle , ma belle, someday we’ll be born tre—- what? Tres bien ensamble? Isn’t that french?
Yes, it took me quite some time to actually realise the whole line is in French.
Before I knew it was all French I thought it was that bold part too…
11.41am
8 April 2014
Offline I have quite a lot of misheard lyrics, also ones that I haven’t discovered yet… These are the ones I can think of now:
1. Eleanor Rigby : “She picks up her eyes in the church where her wedding has been”
2. Eleanor Rigby : “Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he watches from the grave” As if he would be burying himself.
3. I Saw Her Standing There : “And the way she looked was way beyond a man.” I really don’t know how I got from compare to beyond a man!
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4 April 2014
Offline I’ve heard a story in my family that my aunt always thought that “Paperback Writer ” was “Take the Back Right Sir” when it first came out. I thought that was hilarious!
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Here is a lyric that I get confused “Stirring up the dirt” It sounds like he’s saying “Stirring up the dead” There’s others too, but this is the one I remember right off
I actually thought it was supposed to be “staring up the dirt” because of George’s “air” to “urr” thing. Then I realized how much more sense “stirring” made.
I also always thought that the line in Lovely Rita “…filling in a ticket in a little white book” was “…in a little white booth.” It’s because of the way Paul pronounces “book.”
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4.37pm
8 April 2014
Offline I had forgotten about this one:
Please Mr. Postman: “You didn’t stop to make me feel better, by leaving me a goddamn letter!” I was actually singing along to this for a very long time until I realized my mistake…
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Offline “Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where her wedding has been”.
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You can’t grind cause you’re laughin’ at me!”
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1 November 2012
Offline For a few years after I bought this album many years ago, I thought Paul was singing —
“broken-hearted Jew believes…”
That’s from “Junk”. Of course, I later found out it’s —
“broken-hearted jubilee…”
(McCartney was my introduction to the Beatles: from there I bought Ram , then I got deep into the White Album , then Rubber Soul and Revolver , and eventually to all the rest.)
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8 February 2014
Offline I didn’t realize this was wrong until I posted it a couple days ago and looking at it something didn’t seem right, so i checked it…
‘Julia , seashell eyes, windswept smile, calls me…’
when it’s really “windy smile”
i still think ‘windswept’ sounds better and evokes a better image (Damn John and his subpar writing!
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