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There are 50 misheard song lyrics for Neil Young on amIright currently.

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"After The Gold Rush"
Misheard Lyrics:
Look at Mother Nature on the run, into 1917.
Original Lyrics:
Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 1970's.
"After The Goldrush"
Misheard Lyrics:
And the Archies split the tree
Original Lyrics:
And the archer split the tree
"After the Gold Rush"
Misheard Lyrics:
There were presidents singing
Original Lyrics:
There were peasants singing
"After the Goldrush"
Misheard Lyrics:
Flying mother nature's silver seed to a new womb in the sun
Original Lyrics:
Flying mother nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun
"Burned"
Misheard Lyrics:
Now i am finding out that it is old c**t music
Original Lyrics:
Now I am Finding out that it is so confusing
"Cinamon Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
Passing me money down
Original Lyrics:
Pa, send me money now.
"Cinnamon Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna live in sin with a girl.
Original Lyrics:
I wanna live with a cinnamon girl.
"Cinnamon Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna live with a cinema girl
Original Lyrics:
I wanna live with a cinnamon girl
"Cinnamon Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna live with a simian girl.
Original Lyrics:
I wanna live with a cinnamon girl.
"Cinnamon Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna live with an anemic girl.
Original Lyrics:
I wanna live with a cinnamon girl.
"Cinnamon Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
Ma send me money now
I'm gonna make it somehow
I need another chance
The seal baby loves to dance.
Original Lyrics:
Pa sent me money now
I'm gonna make it somehow
I need another chance
You see your baby loves to dance.
"Cinnamon Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
Ma send me money now
I'm gonna make it somehow
I need another chance
This eel baby loves to dance.
Original Lyrics:
Pa sent me money now
I'm gonna make it somehow
I need another chance
You see your baby loves to dance.
"Cinnamon Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
Ma send me money now
I'm gonna make it somehow
I need another chance
You see your baby's underpants.
Original Lyrics:
Pa sent me money now
I'm gonna make it somehow
I need another chance
You see your baby loves to dance.
"Down By The River"
Misheard Lyrics:
Down by the river,
Dead, oh, shot a deer.
Original Lyrics:
Down by the river,
Dead, oh, shot her dead.
"Down By The River"
Misheard Lyrics:
Down by the river, I shot my gravy.
Original Lyrics:
Down by the river, I shot my baby.
"Down By The River"
Misheard Lyrics:
Down in the river
Load, oh, shot my load.
Original Lyrics:
Down by the river
Dead, oh, shot her dead.
"Downtown"
Misheard Lyrics:
Give your money to the gay man,
your blood in his eye
Original Lyrics:
Give your money to the gate man,
young blood in his eye
"Downtown"
Misheard Lyrics:
Give your money to the gay man
Your blood in his eye.
Original Lyrics:
Give your money to the gate man
Young blood in his eye.
"Heart Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'd kill a minor for a heart of gold
Original Lyrics:
I've been a miner for a heart of gold
"Heart Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
I've been searching for an artichoke.
Original Lyrics:
I've been searching for a heart of gold.
"Helpless"
Misheard Lyrics:
Big Bird's flying over the sky.
Original Lyrics:
Big birds flying over the sky.
As the Sesame Street character, an apostrophe after the 's'.
"Helpless"
Misheard Lyrics:
Helpless, helpless, help, albert
Original Lyrics:
Helpless, helpless, helpless
"Into The Black (Hey, Hey, My, My)"
Misheard Lyrics:
It's better to burn 'em
'cause roasts never speak
Original Lyrics:
It's better to burn out
'cause rust never sleeps
"Like A Hurricane"
Misheard Lyrics:
There's c*** in your eye.
Original Lyrics:
There's calm in your eye.
"Like A Hurricane"
Misheard Lyrics:
There“s harm in your eyes.
Original Lyrics:
There's calm in your eye.
"Love Is A Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
Love is a nose, but you better not pick it.
Original Lyrics:
Love is a rose, but you better not pick it.
"Love Is A Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
Love is a ruse.
Original Lyrics:
Love is a rose.
"Motorcycle Mama"
Misheard Lyrics:
Motorcycle mama
Won't you lay your b**** bike down?
Original Lyrics:
Motorcycle mama
Won't you lay your big spike down?
"Motorcycle Mama"
Misheard Lyrics:
Motorcycle mama
Won't you lay your big bike down?
Original Lyrics:
Motorcycle mama
Won't you lay your big spike down?
"Natural Beauty"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm not sure all beauty should be
Preserved like a monument.
Original Lyrics:
A natural beauty should be
Preserved like a monument.
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
4 diddle-ee o-i-o
Original Lyrics:
4 dead in Ohio
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
Forgetting Ohio
Original Lyrics:
Four dead in Ohio
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
Poor daddy in Ohio
Original Lyrics:
Four dead in Ohio
"On Broadway"
Misheard Lyrics:
Give me that crap
Give me some of that crap.
Original Lyrics:
Give me that crack
Give me some of that crack.
"Only Love Can Break Your Heart"
Misheard Lyrics:
I have a friend I never see
He hides his head inside a tree.
Original Lyrics:
I have a friend I never see
He hides his head inside a dream.
"Only Love"
Misheard Lyrics:
I have a friend I've never seen
He hides his head inside a tree.
Original Lyrics:
I have a friend I've never seen
He hides his head inside a dream.
"Peace Of Mind"
Misheard Lyrics:
Everybody needs a piece,pizza pie.
Original Lyrics:
Everybody needs peace,peace of mind.
"Powderfinger"
Misheard Lyrics:
When the first shot hit the dog, I saw it coming.
Original Lyrics:
When the first shot hit the dock, I saw it coming.
"Razor Love"
Misheard Lyrics:
It's a razor love that cuts cream through.
Original Lyrics:
It's a razor love that cuts clean through.
"Rockin In The Free World"
Misheard Lyrics:
Got a man of the people says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn got drugs to try.
Original Lyrics:
Got a man of the people says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn got roads to drive.
"Rockin' In The Free World"
Misheard Lyrics:
Keep the broccoli in the freezer.
Original Lyrics:
Keep on rockin' in the free world.
"Rockin' In The Free World"
Misheard Lyrics:
Klingons rockin' in the free world.
Original Lyrics:
Keep on rockin' in the free world.
"Rockin' In The Free World"
Misheard Lyrics:
There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan but I am the lamb.
Original Lyrics:
There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan but I am to them.
"Rockin' in the Free World"
Misheard Lyrics:
There's a war inside
Come in ahead.
Original Lyrics:
There's a warning sign
On the road ahead.
"Sail Away"
Misheard Lyrics:
I could live inside a T.V.
Original Lyrics:
I could live inside a teepee.
"Sample and Hold"
Misheard Lyrics:
I need a eunuch to sample and hold.
Original Lyrics:
I need a unit to sample and hold.
"Sugar Mountain"
Misheard Lyrics:
With the barbers and the coloured bafoons
Original Lyrics:
With the barkers and the coloured balloons
"The Needle And The Damage Done"
Misheard Lyrics:
I see the needles and the damaged dolls.
Original Lyrics:
I see the needles and the damage done.
"The Old Laughing Lady"
Misheard Lyrics:
You can't have recovered if there ain't no war.
or
You can't have recovery if there ain't no war.
Original Lyrics:
You can't have a cupboard if there ain't no wall.
"Unknown Legend"
Misheard Lyrics:
Somewhere on a desert island
She rides a Harley-Davidson
Original Lyrics:
Somewhere on a desert highway
She rides a Harley-Davidson

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