Vol. 07 · Misheard ·1987
"Last night I dreamt of some bagels."
That isn't the lyric.
What you hear
"Last night I dreamt of some bagels."
What's actually sung
"Last night I dreamt of San Pedro." La Isla Bonita — Madonna (1987)
Why the ear defaults
"San Pedro" is an unfamiliar place name to many English ears — it resolves to the nearest familiar phonetic pattern, which is "some bagels."
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