Vol. 07 · Misheard ·1965
"Michelle, my bell, sound today."
That isn't the lyric.
What you hear
"Michelle, my bell, sound today."
What's actually sung
"Michelle, ma belle, sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble." Michelle — The Beatles (1965)
Why the ear defaults
The French interlude ("ma belle") feeds a mondegreen automatically for non-French speakers. The nearest English words fill in the phonetic shape.
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