How a Botched Lyric Turned “Blinded by the Light” Into Rock’s Funniest Misheard Song

How would you like it if you wrote a masterpiece with some pretty deep lyrics and it failed? But then another band cut the song and made it a #1 smash, but then botched your lyrics so badly that it turned the words into a big joke that people are still laughing at today! The lyric in question was from Bruce Springsteen's Blinded by the Light, and it was about a bada$$ hot rod. But the words were so BOTCHED by Manfred Mann's singer Chris Thompson, that it turned the hot rod into a lyric about a hygiene product for private parts!. It became arguably the funniest punchline in rock and one of the most notorious misheard lyrics ever… but the story is even better. And in the end, Bruce Springsteen is still laughing about it... decades after laughing all the way to the bank. The story is next on Professor of Rock.

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