Professor Andrew Nevins (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) explains how many song lyrics can be misunderstood. He draws from ABBA's 'Super Trouper', Jimi Hendrix’s 'Purple Haze' and Hall & Oates's 'Everytime You Go Away' as examples of commonly misheard songs. These misunderstandings are called mondegreens.
Listen to the full Lunch Hour Lecture here: http://snd.sc/Znz1Lr
Further info:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/research/linguistics/People/linguistics-staff/andrew_nevins
N.B. We are using excerpts of the music under UK Fair dealing, which is is for the purposes of non-commercial criticism or review (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing_in_United_Kingdom_law).
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