Misunderstood lyrics

When we got our dog, Charlie, about twelve years ago, our son Evan was three years old. Charlie is half Basset Hound and half Black Labrador Retriever. Evan loved Charlie (and still does) and spent a lot of time playing with him and talking with him. He also liked singing to him and thought he knew the words to the song Hound Dog written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (and most famously performed by Elvis Presley) but he wasn't quite right:

He's the bottom of a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
He's the bottom of a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
He doesn't eat rabbits
He doesn't eat pie and
He can't know what to do
Hey

With the Hey being performed at maximum volume and enthusiasm. He didn't have a second verse. This was just repeated over and over. And over!

Thinking about this reminded me of the website Am I Right and especially the section of the site devoted to misheard lyrics. It is a lot of fun to read what some people thought the lyrics were to famous songs. Some songs, due to the strange accents of the singers or sound effects of the tracks, are especially prone to people mishearing the lyrics. For years I thought that one section of the theme song for The Flintstones TV show was,

Let's ride, with the family down the street
Through the, courtesy of friends this week

thinking they were referring to the sponsors of the program when in reality the line is,

Let's ride, with the family down the street
Through the, courtesy of Fred's two feet

meaning that the family car was moved by Fred's two feet pushing it. There is also a section of the Am I Right website for parodies of songs. That's another type of fun and it makes me think of my wife's parody of the song Feelings when she sings it to our cats and changes it to Felines.