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Vol. 07 · Misheard ·1973

"She's got electric boobs, a mohair suit."

That isn't the lyric.

What you hear
"She's got electric boobs, a mohair suit."
What's actually sung
"She's got electric boots, a mohair suit." Bennie and the Jets — Elton John (1973)

Why the ear defaults

Elton clips the T in "boots" against the B in "boobs" — and the 1973 glam-rock context makes either reading roughly equally absurd. The misheard version is now the bar-band default.

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