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Misheard Song Lyrics -> Artist -> M -> Joni Mitchell

Misheard song lyrics (also called mondegreens) occur when people misunderstand the lyrics in a song. These are NOT intentional rephrasing of lyrics, which is called parody. This page contains all the misheard lyrics for Joni Mitchell that have been submitted to this site and the old collection from inthe80s started in 1996. For more information about the misheard lyrics available on this site, please read our FAQ.

There are 134 misheard song lyrics for Joni Mitchell on amIright currently.

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"All I Want" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna be the one that you want to see
On an itchy sweater
Original Lyrics:
I wanna be the one that you want to see
I wanna knit you a sweater
"All I Want" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
When I think of your kisses my mind sees stars
Original Lyrics:
When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
'Cause we're growing some apples to leave for the birds and the bees.
Bees!
Original Lyrics:
I don't care about spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees.
Please!
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
A big paradise, they put up a f****ng lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
A gay pair of guys like to f**k a lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
A gay pair of guys put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
A gay paradise, fruit of the parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
A paid paradise put up a parking lot
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
A piggies paradise, put in a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
A pink pair of dice, the hood of a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
A pink paradise, pull up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Ain't very nice, put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Big paradise, put up a f**king lie.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Bird of paradise put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Gay paradise, put in a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Green paradise put up a f***ing light.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Had fry rice and I poop up da parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Hey father father
Original Lyrics:
Hey farmer farmer
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Hey paradise! Put up a f***in' lot.
Original Lyrics:
The paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Hey paradise, put up a f***ing light.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Hey, Paradise, put up a parking lot.
or
They paved paradise, and put up a f***ing light.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Hey, hey paradise, you put up a f***ing lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Hey, hey, paradise, put up a parking lot
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I don’t care about sparks on my asses
Original Lyrics:
I don’t care about sparks on my apples
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I love paradise. Put up a parking lot!
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I paid paradise and put up a f***ing lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
It just spoils the apples.
Believe in the birds and the bees, please!
Original Lyrics:
I don't care about spots on my apples,
but leave me the birds and the bees. Please!
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
It's a pink paradise, so put up a f*** in line.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
It's paralyzed, put up a pocket lie.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Late last night, the birds all screamed or slammed.
Original Lyrics:
Late last night, I heard the screen door slam.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Late last night, the birds are screamed or slammed.
Original Lyrics:
Late last night, I heard the screen door slam.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
May paradise, and put up a f***ing line.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Mayfair on ice, put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Now give me spots on my apples.
Original Lyrics:
I don't care about spots on my apples.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Paid fifty cents, put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Paper and ice, put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved Paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Paved paradise to put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Pay paradise and put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Pink Panther and guys, put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Pink Paradise and put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Pink paradise, fruit of the parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Pink paradise, put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Pink paradise, queen of the parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Pink paradise... they put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Put a little dream into it.
Original Lyrics:
And put them in a tree museum.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Save paradise, put up a parking lot
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Take a pair of dice and put up a parking lot
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
The day paradise had put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
The day paradise put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
The gay paradise put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
The grey pair of eyes on the girl in the parking lot
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
The paid paradise, put up a f***ing lie.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They paid a pair of dice
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They paid a pair of guys, to put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They paid pair of dice and put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They paid paradise and put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They paid paradise to put up a f***ing lie.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They paid paradise to put up a f***ing light.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise to put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They paid paradise to put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They paid paradise, pick up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They paid paradise, to put up a f***ing light.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They paid parasites to put on a parking light.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They paid parasites to put up a parking lot.
or
They paid Paris dykes to put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They painted paradise and put up a f***ing light.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put a f**king lot
Original Lyrics:
Paved paradise, and put up a parking lot
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a barking dog
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a f***ing lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a f***ing wall.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They paved paradise to put up a f***ing lie.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They paved paradise to put up a f**king lot
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a f***ing light.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They paved paradise, boot up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They razed paradise and put up a parking lot
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They say paradise took out a pocket knife.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They spade a pair of dice to put a sparking pot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They took down a fence to put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
To leave paradise, and put up with parking lice.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Today's paradise put up a parking lot.
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
You big paradise! You put up with fucking lies!
Original Lyrics:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
"Big Yellow Taxi" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Your booty and a swinging hot spot
Original Lyrics:
A boutique and a swinging hot spot
"Blue" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
In Cannes, a pin
Original Lyrics:
Ink on a pin
"Both Sides Now" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
And ice cream castles everywhere
Original Lyrics:
And ice cream castles in the air
"Both Sides Now" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Rows and floes of angel hair
And covid-19 everywhere
Original Lyrics:
Rows and floes of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
"California" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I met her at a connegration owl
Original Lyrics:
I met a redneck on a Grecian isle
"California" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Stole our limes disease
Original Lyrics:
Still a lot of lands to see
"Carey" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Go with a girl named Cathy
Have fun tonight.
Original Lyrics:
Go to the Mermaid Cafe
Have fun tonight.
"Carey" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Let's not talk about fairy tales now
Original Lyrics:
Let's not talk about fare-thee-wells now
"Court And Spark" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
He saw me mistrusting, and I'm still acting kind
Original Lyrics:
He saw me mistrusting him and still acting kind
"Court And Spark" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I cleared myself, I sacrificed my boobs.
Original Lyrics:
I cleared myself, I sacrificed my blues.
"Coyote"
Misheard Lyrics:
He's not a woman at all
Original Lyrics:
He's got a woman at home
"Edith and the Kingpin"
Misheard Lyrics:
From big dumps of typewriters
Original Lyrics:
From victims of typewriters
"Free Man In Paris" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I was a free man in Paris
I was better than alive.
Original Lyrics:
I was a free man in Paris
I felt unfettered and alive.
"Free Man In Paris" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I was a free man in Paris
I felt up Kevin Federline.
Original Lyrics:
I was a free man in Paris
I felt unfettered and alive.
"Free Man In Paris" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I'd go back there tomorrow
But for the war a-ragin' on
Folks gonna starve makin' machinery
'N' rewind the popular song.
Original Lyrics:
I'd go back there tomorrow
But for the work I'm taking on
Stoking the star makin' machinery
Behind the popular song.
"Free Man in Paris" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I deal with dreamers and telephone screeners.
Original Lyrics:
I deal with dreamers and telephone screamers.
"Free Man in Paris" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
You can't tease 'em all
Original Lyrics:
You can't please 'em all
"Harry's House/Centerpiece"
Misheard Lyrics:
Baby, you're my centipede.
Original Lyrics:
Baby, you're my centerpiece.
"Help Me" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
'Cause I've seen som hot, hot places
Come down and smokin' a**.
Original Lyrics:
'Cause I've seen som hot, hot blazes
Come down to smoke and ash.
"Help Me" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
'Cause I've seen som hot, hot places
Come down to smokin' hash.
Original Lyrics:
'Cause I've seen som hot, hot blazes
Come down to smoke and ash.
"Help Me" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
'Cause I've seen some hard, hard places
Come down to smokin' ash.
Original Lyrics:
'Cause I've seen some hot, hot blazes
Come down to smoke and ash.
"Help Me" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
'Cause I've seen some hot, hot blazes come down while smoking hash.
Original Lyrics:
'Cause I've seen some hot, hot blazes come to smoke and ash.
"Help Me" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Help me, I think I'm pollen
or
Help me, I think I've fallen
or
Help me, I think I'm foreign
Original Lyrics:
Help me, I think I'm falling
"Help Me" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Pelt me!
Original Lyrics:
Help me!
"In France They Kiss on Main Street"
Misheard Lyrics:
And old mid term class circumstance
Original Lyrics:
And molded to middle class circumstance
"In France They Kiss on Main Street"
Misheard Lyrics:
Feeling the breeze in those push-up brassieres
Original Lyrics:
Gail and Louise in those push-up brassieres
"In France They Kiss on Main Street"
Misheard Lyrics:
Or a lift with Melvin
Original Lyrics:
Or Lead Foot Melvin
"Ladies of the Canyon" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Covering the sunshine up
Original Lyrics:
Coloring the sunshine hours
"Little Green" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Born with a moaning cancer
Original Lyrics:
Born with the moon in cancer
"Raised On Robbery" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
'Cause I was raised on rubber beans.
Original Lyrics:
'Cause I was raised on robbery.
"Raised On Robbery" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Gravestone robbery
Original Lyrics:
Raised on robbery
"Raised On Robbery" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
He was drinking forty bourbon.
Original Lyrics:
He was drinking for diversion.
"Raised On Robbery" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Look at those jokers
Losin' that damned hockey game.
Original Lyrics:
Look at those jokers
Glued to that damned hockey game.
"Raised on Robbery" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
He was drinking forty version.
Original Lyrics:
He was drinking for diversion.
"River" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
It's a Commodore Christmas
They're cutting the cheese.
Original Lyrics:
It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down trees.
"Roses Blue"
Misheard Lyrics:
She's gotten into terracotta potions
Original Lyrics:
She's gotten into tarot cards and potions
Not listened to her for some years. Just realised what an exquisite voice she has.
"Shades Of Scarlet Conquering"
Misheard Lyrics:
Like Norris Hopewell and Robert Hale
Original Lyrics:
Magnolias hopeful in her auburn hair
"Shades Of Scarlet Conquering"
Misheard Lyrics:
Through stand in boys and extra players
Like Norris Hopewell and Robert Hale.
Original Lyrics:
Through stand in boys and extra players
Magnolias hopeful in her auburn hair.
"Shades of Scarlet Conquereing"
Misheard Lyrics:
Though stand in boys and extra players,
LIKE NORRIS HOPEWELL AND ROBERT HALE
Original Lyrics:
Through stand in boys and extra players
MAGNOLIAS HOPEFUL IN HER AUBURN HAIR
hope Joni ain't pissed!!
"Song for Sharon" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Shine your light on me Mr Bertie
Original Lyrics:
Shine your light on me Miss Liberty
"The Circle Game" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
And go round and round and round in a circle again
Original Lyrics:
And go round and round and round in the circle game
"The Circle Game" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
And the painted boners go up and down
Original Lyrics:
And the painted ponies go up and down
"The Circle Game" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
At the Circle K
Original Lyrics:
In the circle game
"This Flight Tonight" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Buffalo's name was Sam.
Original Lyrics:
Above the Las Vegas Sands
"Tin Angel"
Misheard Lyrics:
Valentines and make-believes
Tucked into a paper bag
Original Lyrics:
Valentines and maple leaves
Tucked into a paperback
"Urge For Going"
Misheard Lyrics:
I get the urge for bowling
When the meadow grass is turning brown.
Original Lyrics:
I get the urge for going
When the meadow grass is turning brown.
"Woodstock" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
We are stardust
We are going
And we're 'bout to s*** ourselves
After the fartin'.
Original Lyrics:
We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden.
"Woodstock" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
We are started up, we are growin'
And we've got to get our breasts like Dolly Parton's.
Original Lyrics:
We are stardust, we are golden
And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.
"Woodstock" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
We are tired, we are frozen
Original Lyrics:
We are stardust, we are golden
"You Turn Me On I'm a Radio"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm a little bit horny.
Original Lyrics:
I'm a little bit corny.
"You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio"
Misheard Lyrics:
Answers - forget it
That's your heart still smokin'
Call me at the station
The lights are up there
Original Lyrics:
If your head says forget it
But your heart's still smokin'
Call me at the station
The lines are open
"You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio"
Misheard Lyrics:
If you're lyin' on the beach
With the transistor callin'
Kick off the sand cos' honey
The love's still flowin'
Original Lyrics:
If you're lyin' on the beach
With the transistor goin'
Kick off the sandflies honey
The love's still flowin'
"You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio"
Misheard Lyrics:
You get born so quick
Original Lyrics:
You get bored so quick

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