Vol. 07 · Misheard ·1975
"She's got a squeeze box daddy never sleeps at night."
That isn't the lyric.
What you hear
"She's got a squeeze box daddy never sleeps at night."
What's actually sung
"She's got a squeeze box daddy never sleeps at night." Squeeze Box — The Who (1975)
Why the ear defaults
Reverse mondegreen — the innocent surface ("accordion") is what listeners think they misheard, when the suggestive reading is Pete Townshend's intended one.
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