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1960s | |
Joe Cocker's, "With a Little Help from My Friends"
Misheard Lyrics: And I'll try not to sing out a key
Original Lyrics: And I'll try not to sing out of key
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Simon and Garfunkel's, "America"
Misheard Lyrics: It took me four days to hitch-hike from Sevenoaks
Original Lyrics: It took me four days to hitch-hike from Saginaw
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Simon and Garfunkel's, "I Am a Rock"
Misheard Lyrics: I am a Rob, I am a Robert
Original Lyrics: I am a rock, I am an island.
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The Beatles', "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
Misheard Lyrics: Hey, you've got a hija of a way
Original Lyrics: Hey, you've got to hide your love away.
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The Four Tops', "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)"
Misheard Lyrics: I've tried 'til your apron screams
Original Lyrics: I'm tied to your apron strings
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The Four Tops', "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)"
Misheard Lyrics: Sugar by honey bunch
Original Lyrics: Sugar pie, honey bunch
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The Four Tops', "It's the Same Old Song"
Misheard Lyrics: But like a honey bee stings, you're gonna left my heart in pain
Original Lyrics: But like a honeybee stings, you've gone and left my heart in pain
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1970s | |
Arlo Guthrie's, "The City of New Orleans"
Misheard Lyrics: Rockin' Doctor sings his song again
The passengers will please refrain Original Lyrics: The conductor sings his song again
The passengers will please refrain |
Cast of Evita's, "Buenos Aires"
Misheard Lyrics: Just a little touch of stop quality
Original Lyrics: Just a little touch of star quality
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Cast of Evita's, "Don't Cry for Me Argentina"
Misheard Lyrics: I've kept my pumice
Don't keep your disco Original Lyrics: I've kept my promise
Don't keep your distance |
Isley Brothers', "The Pride"
Misheard Lyrics: When you finally break it on down... disco pride
Original Lyrics: When you finally break it all down... it's the pride
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Paul Davis', "Sweet Life"
Misheard Lyrics: Sharing Milo with you
Original Lyrics: Sharing my love with you
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Queen's, "Fat Bottomed Girls"
Misheard Lyrics: Now I got mortgages and homes
And I got splinters in my bones Ain't no beauty queens in this low calorie Original Lyrics: Now I got mortgages and homes
And I got stiffness in the bones Ain't no beauty queens in this locality |
The Mash's, "Suicide Is Painless"
Misheard Lyrics: Through early morning thought I see
Original Lyrics: Through early morning fog I see
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The Ramones', "Rock N Roll High School"
Misheard Lyrics: I Just wanna get some cheats
Original Lyrics: I just wanna get some chicks
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1980s | |
Alabama's, "Mountain Music"
Misheard Lyrics: Playin' baseball in church lots
It ain't wrong; is that so bad? Original Lyrics: Playin' baseball with chert rocks
Usin' sawmill slabs for bats |
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Alabama's, "Mountain Music"
Misheard Lyrics: Playing baseball with shirt drops
Original Lyrics: Playing baseball with chert rocks
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Asia's, "Heat of the Moment"
Misheard Lyrics: You can't control it like the dragon's wings
Original Lyrics: You catch a pearl and ride the dragon's wings
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Eurythmics', "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
Misheard Lyrics: Sin jeans al mediodÃa.
Original Lyrics: Sweet dreams are made of this.
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John Farnham's, "You're the Voice"
Misheard Lyrics: We're all Samuel's daughter
We're all Samuel's son Original Lyrics: We're all someone's daughter
We're all someone's son |
Men at Work's, "Down Under"
Misheard Lyrics: Traveling on a Friday crumbly
On a hippie trailer without something Original Lyrics: Traveling in a fried-out Combie
On a hippie trail, head full of Zombie |
Men at Work's, "Who Can It Be Now?"
Misheard Lyrics: Who can eat Figaro?
Original Lyrics: Who can it be now?
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Michael Jackson's, "Smooth Criminal"
Misheard Lyrics: And the sound of the wisdom, daddy struck you, I could sh*t your body.
Original Lyrics: there's a sign in the window, that he struck you a crescendo, Annie
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Sheila E.'s, "The Belle of St. Mark"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with the belly of Bismarck
Original Lyrics: I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with the belle of St. Mark
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Swing Out Sister's, "Breakout"
Misheard Lyrics: Don't stop do Al
Now you've found a great new baby Sal. You've got to find a way Of what you want to say Breakdown Original Lyrics: Don't stop to ask
Now you've found a break to make at last. You've got to find a way Say what you want to say Breakout |
The Police's, "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da"
Misheard Lyrics: De do do do, de da da da
The meaning is I'm porking you Original Lyrics: De do do do, de da da da
They're meaningless and all that's true |
The Stranglers', "Skin Deep"
Misheard Lyrics: Better watch out for the schooners.
Original Lyrics: Better watch out for the skin deep
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1990s | |
Eiffel 65's, "Blue (Da Ba Dee)"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm new, I would feed off a guy
Original Lyrics: I'm blue (da ba dee da ba di)
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Fatboy Slim's, "Praise You"
Misheard Lyrics: We've come a long long way to Vegas
Through the hard times and the blue I have to celebrate you, baby I have to praise you like a shoe. Original Lyrics: We've come a long, long way together.
Through the hard times and the good. I have to celebrate you, baby. I have to praise you like I should. |
Michael Jackson's, "Black Or White"
Misheard Lyrics: I told my baby go to Saturn to bed.
Original Lyrics: I took my baby on a Saturday bang.
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Michael Jackson's, "Black or White"
Misheard Lyrics: They print my message on the side of the sun.
Original Lyrics: They print my message in the Saturday Sun.
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Rod Stewart's, "The Motown Song"
Misheard Lyrics: So bring home some of your old, Motown madness
Original Lyrics: So bring over some of your old Motown records
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Spin Doctors', "Two Princes"
Misheard Lyrics: Got some pig swill upon his jacket
Original Lyrics: Got some big seal upon his jacket
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Tracy Byrd's, "Watermelon Crawl"
Misheard Lyrics: She wiggled and she jiggled,
Beat all you ever saw Original Lyrics: she wiggled and she giggled
Beat all you ever saw |
2000s | |
Caramell's, "Caramell Dansen"
Misheard Lyrics: Dance animals
Clap in the hands They're yours, only yours I want to sing in jazz band This whole life Lisa's into clowns then, Look at me, yell at me, Carmell Dansen Original Lyrics: Dansa med oss
Klappa era hnder Gr som vi gr Ta ngra steg t vnster Lyssna och lr Missa inte chansen Nu r vi hr med Caramelldansen |
Coldplay's, "Clocks"
Misheard Lyrics: Vomitando por naliz.
Original Lyrics: Have brought me down upon my knees.
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Fall Out Boy's, "(Coffee's For Closers)"
Misheard Lyrics: Women made me
Original Lyrics: When they made me
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Fall Out Boy's, "Save Rock and Roll"
Misheard Lyrics: How'd it get to be only me?
Like I'm molesting kids, still kicking and still believe Original Lyrics: How'd it get to be only me?
Like I'm the last damn kid still kicking That still believes. |
Linkin Park's, "Somewhere I Belong"
Misheard Lyrics: Just truck, Pablo went alone in the forest biome, in the forest biome.
Original Lyrics: Just stuck, hollow and alone and the fault is my own, and the fault is my own
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Rihanna's, "Don't Stop the Music"
Misheard Lyrics: I am going sing a song about Microsoft
Original Lyrics: Ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa
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T.I's, "What You Know"
Misheard Lyrics: Drag you out that Bradley Cooper and take it to the chop shop
Original Lyrics: Drag you out that Bentley Coupe and take it to the chop shop
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The Kooks', "She Moves In Her Own Way"
Misheard Lyrics: Uh oh oh oh, it's those furby kids, they move in her own way.
Original Lyrics: Well oh oh, oh
I love her because she moves in her own way. |
The Kooks', "She Moves in Her Own Way"
Misheard Lyrics: Uh oh oh oh, it's those furby kids, they move in her own way.
Original Lyrics: Well oh oh, oh I love her because she moves in her own way.
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2010s | |
Imagine Dragons', "Radioactive"
Misheard Lyrics: I feel it in my bones, enough to make my sister blow
Original Lyrics: I feel it in my bones, enough to make my system go...
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Justin Bieber's, "Boyfriend"
Misheard Lyrics: Tummy what you like, yeah, tummy what you don't.
Original Lyrics: Tell me what you like, yeah, tell me what you don't.
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Marina and the Diamonds', "Primadonna"
Misheard Lyrics: His name is Troy, Troy, Troy
Original Lyrics: Every day is a chore, chore, chore
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