10 Songs That Got Stuff Completely Wrong

In the hallowed halls of rock and roll, there's nothing wrong with a good old fashioned song about nonsense. Hell, if there was some law about putting logic into every single verse you sang, chances are that acts like Nirvana and Foo Fighters probably wouldn't have even had a career in the early days. Then again, even by John Lennon's own admission, the lyric sheet to I Am the Walrus needed a few touchups.

Being one of the first great psychedelic songs that the Beatles would write, Lennon's different analogies in the lyrics are great at setting up pictures in your mind, from the man sitting on a cornflake to the yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye. While the one element tying things together is the titular walrus, the background behind the animal was just a typo on Lennon's part.

Though Lennon maintained that any kind of animal would have probably worked in this position, he had taken the name from Lewis Carroll's famous book the Walrus and the Carpenter, only to find out that he was writing about the wrong person the entire time. Well after the fact, Lennon even admitted that had he known, he probably would have put in I Am the Carpenter in place of the original. Granted, when you're talking about something as ludicrous as this song, sometimes it helps when things don't turn out completely right.