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There are 36 misheard song lyrics for Roy Orbison on amIright currently.
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"(Say) You're My Girl"
With your big eyes, full lips,
Magic bones,
And ev'rything about you, girl.
With your big eyes, full lips,
High cheek bones,
And ev'rything about you, girl.
"Borne On The Wind"
Borne on the whim.
Born on the wind.
Green green baby
or
Dream dream baby
Sweet dream baby
"I Drove All Night"
Could taste your sweet kisses
Your arms 'open mud'.
Could taste your sweet kisses
Your arms open wide.
"I Drove All Night"
I drove all night, crapped in your room.
I drove all night, crept in your room.
"I Fought the Law"
I saw the Lord in the car wash.
I fought the law and the law won.
I'm the coloured man who brings the sand in.
The candy coloured clown they call the sandman.
Setting suns before they fall
Hiccup to you that's all, that's all.
Setting suns before they fall
Echo to you that's all, that's all.
"Love Hurts"
The first love scars
The Earth and Mars.
Love hurts, love scars,
Love wounds, and mars.
"Mystery Girl"
She's a Listerine girl.
She's a mystery girl.
I don't believe you, you lost a tooth.
I don't believe you, you're not the truth.
Maybe tomorrow night we'll mate.
There'll be tomorrow night, but wait.
Pretty lemon
Pretty woman
Pretty walnut, rolling down the street
Pretty woman, walking down the street
Pretty woman, I caught a hell bug, see?
Pretty woman, I couldn't help but see
Pretty woman, I kinda like the beat.
Pretty woman, the kind I'd like to meet.
Pretty woman, and I like your feet.
Pretty woman, the kind I'd like to meet.
Pretty woman, cantaloupe to meet.
Pretty woman, kind I'd like to meet.
Pretty woman, lick my leg.
Pretty woman, look my way.
Pretty woman
A candle at her feet
Pretty woman
The kind I'd like to meet
Pretty woman
A candle on her feet.
Pretty woman
The kind I'd like to meet.
Pretty woman
Kinda light like me.
Pretty woman
The kind I'd like to meet.
Pretty women
Something good to eat
Pretty woman
The kind I'd like to meet.
Willy Wonka
Pretty woman
Editor's note: This song came out in 1964, the same year that Roald Dahl released the book "Charlie & The Chocolate Factory." So it might make sense for someone to mishear the song this way.
Don't eat baloney.
Only the lonely
Holy Baloney
Only the lonely
Odie Cologne
Only the lonely
Only baloney
Only the lonely
Only bologna.
Only the lonely.
Phoney baloney
Only the lonely
"Pretty Paper"
Pretty pretzels, too right, I love you.
Pretty pencils, to write, 'I love you'.
"Shahdaroba"
John the Robot
Shahdaroba
"She's A Mystery Girl" (MP3)
Darkness falls and sh**
Will take me by the hand.
Darkness falls and she
Will take me by the hand.
I'm a paladin that's breaking.
I'm up while the dawn is breaking.
"Working For The Man" (MP3)
Forget about Joey Mann and the water can
Forget about your women and the water can