Misheard Song Lyrics -> Artist -> C -> The Carpenters
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There are 90 misheard song lyrics for The Carpenters on amIright currently.
"(They Long To Be) Close To You"
Misheard Lyrics:
And they sprinkled minus in your hair.
Original Lyrics:
And the sprinkled stardust in your hair.
"(They Long To Be) Close To You"
Misheard Lyrics:
And they sprinkled parkas in your hair.
Original Lyrics:
And they sprinkled stardust in your hair.
"(They Long To Be) Close To You"
Misheard Lyrics:
And they sprinkled walnuts in her hair.
Original Lyrics:
And they sprinkled stardust in your hair.
"(They Long To Be) Close To You"
Misheard Lyrics:
And they sprinkled moondust in her hair
and gave her eyes of blue
and gave her eyes of blue
or
And they sprinkled walnuts in her hair
and gave her eyes of two
and gave her eyes of two
or
And they sprinkled walnuts in her hair
and gave her eyes of two
and gave her eyes of two
Original Lyrics:
So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold
And starlight in your eyes of blue.
And starlight in your eyes of blue.
"(They Long To Be) Close To You"
Misheard Lyrics:
Just like me
they long to pee
close to you
they long to pee
close to you
Original Lyrics:
Just like me
they long to be
close to you
they long to be
close to you
"(They Long To Be) Close To You"
Misheard Lyrics:
So they sprinkled goldness in your hair
And golden starlight in your eyes of blue.
And golden starlight in your eyes of blue.
Original Lyrics:
So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold
And starlight in your eyes of blue.
And starlight in your eyes of blue.
"(They Long To Be) Close To You"
Misheard Lyrics:
So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair
And gold and starlight in your eyes of blue.
And gold and starlight in your eyes of blue.
Original Lyrics:
So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold
And starlight in your eyes of blue.
And starlight in your eyes of blue.
"(They Long To Be) Close To You"
Misheard Lyrics:
So they sprinkled moondust in your hair
And golden starlight in your eyes of blue.
And golden starlight in your eyes of blue.
Original Lyrics:
So they sprinkled moondust in your hair
Of gold and starlight in your eyes of blue.
Of gold and starlight in your eyes of blue.
"(They Long To Be) Close To You"
Misheard Lyrics:
So they sprinkeld gold dust in your head
A golden starlight in your eyes of blue
A golden starlight in your eyes of blue
or
So they sprinkled sawdust in your hair
A gold and starlight in your ice of blue
A gold and starlight in your ice of blue
or
So they sprinkled sawdust in your hair
A gold and starlight in your ice of blue
A gold and starlight in your ice of blue
Original Lyrics:
So they sprinkled moon-dust
In your hair of gold
And starlight in your eyes of blue
In your hair of gold
And starlight in your eyes of blue
"(They Long To Be) Close To You"
Misheard Lyrics:
So, they sprinkled molass in your hair.
Original Lyrics:
So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair.
"(They Long To Be) Close To You"
Misheard Lyrics:
Sprinkled "gloomis" in your hair and golden starlight in your eyes of blue
Original Lyrics:
Sprinkled moondust in your hair..
"All You Get From Love Is A Love Song"
Misheard Lyrics:
Because the best love songs are written with a broken arm.
Original Lyrics:
Because the best love songs are written with a broken heart.
"All You Get From Love Is A Love Song"
Misheard Lyrics:
It's a dirty old chain.
Original Lyrics:
It's a dirty old shame.
"All You Get From Love Is A Love Song"
Misheard Lyrics:
Like sailing on a sailing ship to Norway
Original Lyrics:
Like sailing on a sailing ship to nowhere
"All You Get From Love Is A Love Song"
Misheard Lyrics:
Like sailing on a sailing ship to nowhere
[Later]
I love to cover my hide like an ocean breeze.
[Later]
I love to cover my hide like an ocean breeze.
Original Lyrics:
Like sailing on a sailing ship to nowhere
[Later]
Love took over my heart like an ocean breeze.
[Later]
Love took over my heart like an ocean breeze.
"Because We Are In Love"
Misheard Lyrics:
You can die because we are in love.
Original Lyrics:
You and I, because we are in love.
"Beechwood 4-5789"
Misheard Lyrics:
Beechwood Foreside Senetrate Nine
Original Lyrics:
Beechwood Four Five Seven Eight Nine
"Bless The Beasts And The Children"
Misheard Lyrics:
Recipes for the children.
Original Lyrics:
Bless the beasts and the children.
"Calling Occupants Of Internplanetary Craft"
Misheard Lyrics:
With your mind you have ability to form
And transmit fart energy far beyond the norm.
And transmit fart energy far beyond the norm.
Original Lyrics:
With your mind you have ability to form
And transmit thought energy far beyond the norm.
And transmit thought energy far beyond the norm.
"Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft"
Misheard Lyrics:
Calling hockey pucks of interplanetary craft.
Original Lyrics:
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft.
"Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft"
Misheard Lyrics:
Calling octopus of interplanetary craft.
Original Lyrics:
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft.
"Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft"
Misheard Lyrics:
We've been observing Europe.
Original Lyrics:
We've been observing your Earth.
"Calling Occupants"
Misheard Lyrics:
Calling occupants of interplanetary crap
Original Lyrics:
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
"Goodbye To Love"
Misheard Lyrics:
I say goodbye, hello.
Original Lyrics:
I say goodbye to love.
"Goodbye To Love"
Misheard Lyrics:
Surely time is woozies bit o' melodies
Original Lyrics:
Surely time will lose these bitter memories
"Home For The Holidays"
Misheard Lyrics:
For the holidays you can't be home sweet home.
Original Lyrics:
For the holidays you can't beat home sweet home.
"Hurting Each Other"
Misheard Lyrics:
Outta site, hurting each other.
or
Olive, Scott, hurting each other
or
Olive, Scott, hurting each other
Original Lyrics:
Gotta stop, hurting each other
"Hurting Each Other"
Misheard Lyrics:
We go on
Dialing for dollars.
Dialing for dollars.
Original Lyrics:
We go on
Hurting each other.
Hurting each other.
"Hurting Each Other"
Misheard Lyrics:
Why do we go on hurting each other,
making each other cry,
breaking each others arm
making each other cry,
breaking each others arm
Original Lyrics:
Why do we go on hurting each other,
making each other cry,
breaking each others heart
making each other cry,
breaking each others heart
"I Can't Make Music"
Misheard Lyrics:
A note's a note cliche to say a feel am gonna die.
Original Lyrics:
I know it's an old cliche to say I feel I'm gonna die.
"I Need To Be In Love"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm hanging on a hoop, but I'm alright.
Original Lyrics:
I'm hanging on a hope, but I'm alright.
"I Want You Back In My Life"
Misheard Lyrics:
I don't wanna be your e-mmanuen.
Original Lyrics:
I don't wanna be your remember when...
"I Won't Last A Day Without You"
Misheard Lyrics:
When your small list of dreams won't come true
Original Lyrics:
When your smallest of dreams won't come true
"It's Gonna Take Some Time (This Time)"
Misheard Lyrics:
Alan had a band.
Original Lyrics:
I'll learn how to bend.
"It's Gonna Take Some Time"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'll learn how to beg
Original Lyrics:
I'll learn how to bend
"Jambalaya (On the Bayou)"
Misheard Lyrics:
Jambalie Porky Pie and Columbo
'Cause tonight, I'm gonna see my mama mio
Big guitar, fill fruit jar and behave-oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.
'Cause tonight, I'm gonna see my mama mio
Big guitar, fill fruit jar and behave-oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.
Original Lyrics:
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.
'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.
"Jambalaya"
Misheard Lyrics:
Settle down far from town get him a pillow
And he'll catch all the fish in the Bi-lo.
And he'll catch all the fish in the Bi-lo.
Original Lyrics:
Settle down far from town get him a pirogue
And he'll catch all the fish in the bayou.
And he'll catch all the fish in the bayou.
"Jambalaya"
Misheard Lyrics:
Sham bull eye and crawfish pie can fill a gunboat
[Later]
For tonight I'm a-gonna see mama share a meatloaf.
[Later]
For tonight I'm a-gonna see mama share a meatloaf.
Original Lyrics:
Jambalay' and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
[Later]
For tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher a mio.
[Later]
For tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher a mio.
"Jambalaya"
Misheard Lyrics:
Swap his Mom to buy Yvonne what she need-o.
Original Lyrics:
Swap his mon' to buy Yvonne what she need-o.
"Little Jesus"
Misheard Lyrics:
He will rob you.
Original Lyrics:
He will rock you.
"Merry Christmas, Darling"
Misheard Lyrics:
Greeting card have Albans's scent.
Original Lyrics:
Greeting cards have all been sent.
"Only Yesterday"
Misheard Lyrics:
Maybe you can't see how much you mean to me.
Original Lyrics:
Maybe you can't see how much you lean to me.
"Only Yesterday"
Misheard Lyrics:
Since I blew my sadness away
Original Lyrics:
Since I threw my sadness away
"Only Yesterday"
Misheard Lyrics:
You showed me the way to leave the pastor's volunteers behind me.
Original Lyrics:
You showed me the way to leave the past and all its tears behind me.
"Please Mister Postman"
Misheard Lyrics:
Oh, yes wait a minute Mister Poseman
Hey-ay-ay-ay Mister Poseman
Hey-ay-ay-ay Mister Poseman
Original Lyrics:
Oh yes wait a minute Mister Postman
Way-ay-ay-ait Mister Postman
Way-ay-ay-ait Mister Postman
"Please Mr. Postman"
Misheard Lyrics:
For just a car, or just a letter
Sayin' he's returnin' home to me.
Sayin' he's returnin' home to me.
Original Lyrics:
For just a card, or just a letter
Sayin' he's returnin' home to me.
Sayin' he's returnin' home to me.
"Please, Mr. Postman"
Misheard Lyrics:
There must be some what to say
For my boyfriend so far away
For my boyfriend so far away
Original Lyrics:
There must be some words to say
From my boyfriend so far away
From my boyfriend so far away
"Please, Mr. Postman"
Misheard Lyrics:
There must be some word toda-a-a-ay
From my boyfriend, so far away.
From my boyfriend, so far away.
Original Lyrics:
There must be some words to say
From my boyfriend so far away.
From my boyfriend so far away.
"Rainy Days and Mondays"
Misheard Lyrics:
Rainy days and monkeys always get me down.
Original Lyrics:
Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.
"Reason To Believe"
Misheard Lyrics:
Knowing that you lied, straight-faced, while I crapped
Original Lyrics:
Knowing that you lied, straight-faced, while I cried.
"Saturday"
Misheard Lyrics:
Come and see
The bottle of pop
She gave to me.
The bottle of pop
She gave to me.
Original Lyrics:
Come and see
The flowers of love
She gave to me.
The flowers of love
She gave to me.
"Sing"
Misheard Lyrics:
Sen, senhor sol
Original Lyrics:
Sing, sing a song.
In Portuguese: Mister, Mister Sun
"Sing"
Misheard Lyrics:
Sing of love and good beer.
Original Lyrics:
Sing of love that could be.
"Solitaire"
Misheard Lyrics:
A heart that cared
That went unshared
Until he died with an aside
That went unshared
Until he died with an aside
Original Lyrics:
A heart that cared
That went unshared
Until it died within his silence
That went unshared
Until it died within his silence
"Superstar"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't you remember you told me 'bout the navy
Original Lyrics:
Don't you remember you told me you loved me, baby
"Superstar"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't you remember you told me about the baby
Original Lyrics:
Don't you remember you told me you loved me, baby
"Superstar"
Misheard Lyrics:
Lowliness in such as Santa Fe.
Original Lyrics:
Loneliness is such a sad affair.
"Superstar"
Misheard Lyrics:
You said you were comin' back to sway again baby.
Original Lyrics:
You said you were comin' back this way again baby.
"Sweet Sweet Smile"
Misheard Lyrics:
And I got a beer on the run.
Original Lyrics:
And I gotta be all around you.
"Sweet, Sweet Smile"
Misheard Lyrics:
And I gotta be here on the run.
Original Lyrics:
And I gotta be all around you.
"The Best Love Songs"
Misheard Lyrics:
The best love songs are written with a broken arm
Original Lyrics:
The best love songs are written with a broken heart
"There's A Kind Of Hush"
Misheard Lyrics:
There's a can of fish.
Original Lyrics:
There's a kind of hush.
"There's A Kind Of Hush"
Misheard Lyrics:
There's a kind of rush.
Original Lyrics:
There's a kind of hush.
"Those Good Old Dreams"
Misheard Lyrics:
As I grew people called itself to Stephen.
Original Lyrics:
As I grew people called it self-deceiving.
"Those Good Old Dreams"
Misheard Lyrics:
It's a nudity for those good old dreams.
Original Lyrics:
It's a new day for those good old dreams.
"Ticket To Ride"
Misheard Lyrics:
He's got a ticket to write.
Original Lyrics:
He's got a ticket to ride.
"Ticket To Ride"
Misheard Lyrics:
She's got a tick in her eye
She's got a tick in her eye
And she don't care.
She's got a tick in her eye
And she don't care.
Original Lyrics:
He's got a ticket to ride
He's got a ticket to ride
And he don't care.
He's got a ticket to ride
And he don't care.
"Top Of The Word"
Misheard Lyrics:
Something in the windows learned my name.
Original Lyrics:
Something in the wind has learned my name.
"Top Of The World"
Misheard Lyrics:
And a touch of Febreeze
Original Lyrics:
And the touches of breeze
Febreeze is a product for making clothes (and other things) smell nice.
"Top Of The World"
Misheard Lyrics:
And it touches a breeze
Original Lyrics:
And the touches of breeze
"Top Of The World"
Misheard Lyrics:
Everything I want the world to be
Is not coming true especially for me.
Is not coming true especially for me.
Original Lyrics:
Everything I want the world to be
Is now coming true especially for me.
Is now coming true especially for me.
"Top Of The World"
Misheard Lyrics:
Gerbils with me on the top of the world
Original Lyrics:
Your love put me on the top of the world
"Top Of The World"
Misheard Lyrics:
In the leaves on the trees
and the church in the breeze
and the church in the breeze
Original Lyrics:
In the leaves on the trees
and the touch of the breeze
and the touch of the breeze
"Top Of The World"
Misheard Lyrics:
Is the love that I've found ever since you've been around
You'll escort me at the top of the world.
You'll escort me at the top of the world.
Original Lyrics:
Is the love that I've found ever since you've been around
Your love's put me at the top of the world.
Your love's put me at the top of the world.
"Top Of The World"
Misheard Lyrics:
You're a pussy at the top of the world
Original Lyrics:
Your love's put me at the top of the world
"Top Of The World"
Misheard Lyrics:
You're most with me at the top of the world.
or
Almost with me at the top of the world.
or
Almost with me at the top of the world.
Original Lyrics:
Your love put me at the top of the world.
"Top Of The World"
Misheard Lyrics:
You're the cookie a the top of the world.
Original Lyrics:
Your love's put me at the top of the world.
"Top Of The World"
Misheard Lyrics:
You're the poopie at the top of the world.
Original Lyrics:
Your love's put me at the top of the world.
"Top of the World"
Misheard Lyrics:
Is the love that I've found ever city spin around
Your love's put me at the top of the world.
Your love's put me at the top of the world.
Original Lyrics:
Is the love that I've found ever since you've been around
Your love's put me at the top of the world.
Your love's put me at the top of the world.
"Top of the World"
Misheard Lyrics:
Is the love that I've found ever since you've been around
You're the putney at the at the top of the world.
You're the putney at the at the top of the world.
Original Lyrics:
Is the love that I've found ever since you've been around
Your love's put me at the top of the world.
Your love's put me at the top of the world.
"Touch Me When We're Dancing"
Misheard Lyrics:
F*** me when we're dancing.
Original Lyrics:
Touch me when we're dancing.
"Touch Me When We're Dancing"
Misheard Lyrics:
Play it so gruesome we hardly move.
Original Lyrics:
Play us a groove so we hardly move.
"We've Only Just Begun"
Misheard Lyrics:
Before the rising sun we fly
So many rose to choose.
So many rose to choose.
Original Lyrics:
Before the rising sun we fly
So many roads to choose.
So many roads to choose.
"Winter Wonderland"
Misheard Lyrics:
A beautiful psyche
Original Lyrics:
A beautiful sight
"Yesterday Once More"
Misheard Lyrics:
Chou pie doux l'anglais
Original Lyrics:
Shoo be do lang lang
The misheard lyrics means 'sweet pied English cabbage' in French.
"Yesterday Once More"
Misheard Lyrics:
Shoo be do lime glaze
Original Lyrics:
Shoo be do lang lang
"Yesterday Once More"
Misheard Lyrics:
Still shines (all the oldies and cooties).
Original Lyrics:
Still shines (all the oldies but goodies).
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