Vol. 07 · Misheard ·1977
"Donuts make my brown eyes blue."
That isn't the lyric.
What you hear
"Donuts make my brown eyes blue."
What's actually sung
"Don't it make my brown eyes blue." Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue — Crystal Gayle (1977)
Why the ear defaults
"Don't it" reads as a single word phonetically. "Donuts" is the closest common noun with the same stress pattern.
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