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1960s | |
Jimi Hendrix's, "Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: Your mom ain't home and ain't mack turn
Original Lyrics: Your mom ain't home; it ain't my concern
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1970s | |
Bee Gees', "Night Fever"
Misheard Lyrics: Living on the music so fine,
Bon appetit, naked and mine. Original Lyrics: Living on the music so fine,
Borne on the wind, making it mine. |
Cold Chisel's, "Showtime"
Misheard Lyrics: The smutty backdoor critics
Original Lyrics: The smug de-facto critics
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Earth, Wind & Fire's, "Sing a Song"
Misheard Lyrics: Hey, don't be shamed and don't beat bown,
An' a dairydopple, dairydopple, yeah now, Hey, don't be ashamed to let your gorgeous night, yeah. Original Lyrics: Hey, don't be shamin' call your name,
No never let 'em down, no never down, no never down. Hey ya, don't be ashamed, let them call your name, yeah |
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Meat Loaf's, "Bat Out of Hell"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm a Cilla Black fan on ice
Original Lyrics: A silver black phantom bike
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Meat Loaf's, "Bat Out of Hell"
Misheard Lyrics: Oh and down in the tunnel with the deadly horizon
Original Lyrics: Oh and down in the tunnel where the deadly are rising
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T-Rex's, "Metal Guru"
Misheard Lyrics: America Lou, easy chew.
Original Lyrics: Metal Guru, is it you?
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The Doors', "L.A. Woman"
Misheard Lyrics: Any woman will haveta do
Original Lyrics: L.A. woman Sunday afternoon
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1980s | |
Cold Chisel's, "Cheap Wine"
Misheard Lyrics: Cheap wine and a 3-legged goat
Original Lyrics: Cheap wine and a 3 day growth.
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Eddie Rabbitt's, "Drivin' My Life Away"
Misheard Lyrics: 'Cause the windshield wipers snappin' outa tin foil
or 'Cause the windshield wipers tappin' out a 10-4 Original Lyrics: Those windshield wipers slappin' out a tempo
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Eddie Rabbitt's, "Drivin' My Life Away"
Misheard Lyrics: Keepin' burger rhythm with the song on the radio
Original Lyrics: Keepin' perfect rhythm with the song on the radio
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Eddie Rabbitt's, "Drivin' My Life Away"
Misheard Lyrics: Secret up ahead
Original Lyrics: Steep grade up ahead
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Weird Al Yankovic's, "Eat It"
Misheard Lyrics: Don't wanna hear about what kind of food you ate
Original Lyrics: Don't wanna hear about what kind of food you hate
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Weird Al Yankovic's, "Eat It"
Misheard Lyrics: It doesn't matter if it's boiled or fries
Original Lyrics: It doesn't matter if it's boiled or fried
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Weird Al Yankovic's, "Eat It"
Misheard Lyrics: Now if you start to dance, you'll just have yourself a plate
Original Lyrics: Now if you starve to death, you'll just have yourself to blame
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Weird Al Yankovic's, "Eat It"
Misheard Lyrics: Well don't you know that other kids are story in Japan?
Original Lyrics: Well don't you know that other kids are starving in Japan?
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Weird Al Yankovic's, "I Lost on Jeopardy"
Misheard Lyrics: Against a plumber pullin' an architect
Original Lyrics: Against a plumber
Oh and an architect |
Weird Al Yankovic's, "I Lost on Jeopardy"
Misheard Lyrics: Just tell me now what I did and when, yeah, yeah
Original Lyrics: Just tell me now what I didn't win, yeah, yeah
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Weird Al Yankovic's, "I Love Rocky Road"
Misheard Lyrics: Don't give me no crummy teaspoon
Original Lyrics: Don't give me no crummy taste spoon
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Weird Al Yankovic's, "Ricky"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm sick of Fred and apple always comin' over here
Original Lyrics: I'm sick of Fred and Ethel always comin' over here
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Weird Al Yankovic's, "Such a Groovy Guy"
Misheard Lyrics: And then attach those egg rolls to your brain and watch you dance
Original Lyrics: And then attach electrodes to your brain and watch you dance
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1990s | |
Green Day's, "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)"
Misheard Lyrics: Tattos are memories and asking on trial
Original Lyrics: Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial.
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Inner Circle's, "Bad Boys"
Misheard Lyrics: What you gonna do when they comfort you?
Original Lyrics: What you gonna do when they come for you?
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Los Del Rio's, "Macarena"
Misheard Lyrics: I am not too good for to hear your Macarena
Original Lyrics: Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena
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Mark Morrison's, "Return of the Mack"
Misheard Lyrics: We turn it up again
Original Lyrics: Return of the mack
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2000s | |
Fall Out Boy's, "A Little Less 16 Candles, a Little More Touch Me"
Misheard Lyrics: But you can't blame me for getting head
Original Lyrics: But you can't blame me for hating it.
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Fall Out Boy's, "Dance Dance"
Misheard Lyrics: Why don't you show me, little English boy
You've been saving for his mattress? Original Lyrics: Why don't you show me that little bit of spine
You've been saving for his mattress? |
Fall Out Boy's, "Dance, Dance"
Misheard Lyrics: If they knew her misery of me
Original Lyrics: if they knew how misery loved me.
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Fall Out Boy's, "Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes"
Misheard Lyrics: And perfect boys with their perfect ploys
Original Lyrics: And perfect boys with their perfect lives
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Fall Out Boy's, "Save Rock and Roll"
Misheard Lyrics: How'd you get to be a holy meme?
Original Lyrics: How'd it get to be only me?
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Fall Out Boy's, "Xo"
Misheard Lyrics: Two hands between us
And whatever lipsticks too Original Lyrics: To hands between legs
To "whatever it takes" too. |
Justin Timberlake's, "Cry Me a River"
Misheard Lyrics: A pigeon's a bird; now it's your to fly
Original Lyrics: Bridges were burned, now is your turn, to cry.
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Robbie Williams', "She's Madonna"
Misheard Lyrics: I love you, baby, Your face of cheese, Madonna
Original Lyrics: I love you, baby, But face it, she's Madonna
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2010s | |
Carly Rae Jepsen's, "Call Me Maybe"
Misheard Lyrics: So call me baby.
Original Lyrics: So call me maybe.
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Ella Henderson's, "Ghost"
Misheard Lyrics: Give up the guns
Give up the guns Give up the guns No more hunting babies Original Lyrics: Give up the ghost
Give up the ghost Give up the ghost No more haunting baby |
Fall Out Boy's, "Alone Together"
Misheard Lyrics: Tonight I'm high as a running check
Original Lyrics: Tonight I'm high as a private jet
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Justin Timberlake's, "Mirrors"
Misheard Lyrics: 'Cause when your hand is with my hand, we're sliding like a pocket full of soap
Original Lyrics: 'Cause with your hand in my hand and a pocket full of soul, I can tell
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Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars', "Uptown Funk!"
Misheard Lyrics: This is that ice cold
Michelle fight for that white gold Original Lyrics: This hit that ice cold
Michelle Pfeiffer that white gold |
Meghan Trainor's, "All About That Bass"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm all about that bass, no cello.
Original Lyrics: I'm all about that bass, no treble.
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Pentatonix's, "Evolution of Beyonce"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm an itchy boy
Original Lyrics: I'm a, I'm a diva
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Pentatonix's, "Evolution of Beyonce"
Misheard Lyrics: Let me operate you
Original Lyrics: Let me upgrade you
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Pentatonix's, "Somebody That I Used to Know"
Misheard Lyrics: I, Banana, think of when we were together
Original Lyrics: Now and then I think of when we were together
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Indigo Girls 's, "Perfect World "
Misheard Lyrics: The miracle of date rape
Original Lyrics: the miracle of daybreak
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Mungo Jerry's, "In the summertime "
Misheard Lyrics: In the summertime, when the weather is dry
When the bad guys win and flourish the sky Original Lyrics: In the summertime, when the weather is high
You can stretch right up and touch the sky |