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In Germany we call these misheard lyrics "Agathe Bauer Songs" (misheard "I got the power"), it happens mostly when some lyrics in english songs sound like a german sentence or name.
edit: found this: https://youtu.be/hPV3wHnd5lo?si=Z1GiyHfe89iCMizH
Some of those are really funny 🤣
They are called Mondegreens in English, after Sylvia Wright wrote an essay about how she misheard "laid him on the green," as Lady Mondegreen.
when I lived in Switzerland I learned "the eye of the tiger - die eier von tiger (the balls or effs of the tiger)
Here is this the archive of misheard song lyrics. https://www.kissthisguy.com It’s named after purple haze by Jimmy Hendricks. “‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy”