Vol. 07 · Misheard ·1967
"The girl with colitis goes by."
That isn't the lyric.
What you hear
"The girl with colitis goes by."
What's actually sung
"The girl with kaleidoscope eyes." Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds — The Beatles (1967)
Why the ear defaults
"Kaleidoscope eyes" is a dense consonant cluster. Listeners re-segment the vowels and arrive at a medical diagnosis. Catalogued in mondegreen anthologies since the 1970s.
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