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1960s
Crosby, Stills and Nash's, "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"
Misheard Lyrics:
How do you catch the spiral?
Original Lyrics:
How do you catch the sparrow?
Misheard Lyrics:
Me gotta go for the beano down the biro
Original Lyrics:
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the Bayou
Led Zeppelin's, "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)"
Misheard Lyrics:
With a purple umbrella and a fix in hand
Original Lyrics:
With a purple umbrella and a fifty cent hat
Mamas and the Papas', "California Dreamin'"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'd be safe and warm if I wasn't delayed
Original Lyrics:
I'd be safe and warm if I was in L.A.
The Beatles', "I Am the Walrus"
Misheard Lyrics:
Kookookachoo
Original Lyrics:
Goo goo g'joob!
The Beatles', "Penny Lane"
Misheard Lyrics:
And Elaine is in my ears and in my eyes.
Troll beneath the blue suburban skies I sit there, three wild ducks.
Original Lyrics:
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes.
There beneath the blue suburban skies, I sit and meanwhile back in.
The Hollies', "Bus Stop"
Misheard Lyrics:
Thinkin' of a sweet romance
Beginning in that pew.
Original Lyrics:
Thinkin' of a sweet romance
Beginning in a queue.
The Supremes', "You Can't Hurry Love"
Misheard Lyrics:
Acanhuria
Original Lyrics:
You can't hurry love
 
1970s
Dan Fogelberg's, "Part of the Plan"
Misheard Lyrics:
Someday we'll go on Bandstand (Dick Clark's American Bandstand)
Original Lyrics:
Someday we'll all understand
Gordon Lightfoot's, "Daylight Katy"
Misheard Lyrics:
Hey Lil Katy come on
Hey Lil Katy come on
If you can't follow me down
Hey Lil Katy go home
Original Lyrics:
Daylight Katy come on
Daylight Katy come on
If you can't follow me down
Daylight Katy go home
Manfred Mann's Earth Band's, "Blinded by the Light"
Misheard Lyrics:
Wrapped up like a douche, into the corner in the night
Original Lyrics:
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night.
Ohio Players', "Love Rollercoaster"
Misheard Lyrics:
Love rollercoaster on chow
Original Lyrics:
Love rollercoaster, child
Ohio Players', "Love Rollercoaster"
Misheard Lyrics:
Loving you is a free pass that's wild
Original Lyrics:
Loving you is really wild
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics:
She kept them always shined up
In a pretty cabinet
Original Lyrics:
She keeps Moët et Chandon
In her pretty cabinet
Steve Miller Band's, "The Joker"
Misheard Lyrics:
'Cause I speak of the pumpy juice of love
Original Lyrics:
'Cause I speak of the pompetus of love
The Stylistics', "Stone In Love With You"
Misheard Lyrics:
I would be so skeptical, I would scare the worst creeps to them
Original Lyrics:
I'd be so successful, I would scare wall street to death
 
1980s
Aneka's, "Japanese Boy"
Misheard Lyrics:
Was it something I said or done
That made him pack his bikes up and run?
Original Lyrics:
Was it something I said or done
That made him pack his bags up and run?
Commercial's, "Wrigley's Spearmint Gum"
Misheard Lyrics:
It's that little mint from Wrigley's Spearmint Gum
Original Lyrics:
It's that little lift from Wrigley's Spearmint Gum
Elton John's, "I'm Still Standin'"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't you know that I'm still Stanley
Original Lyrics:
Don't you know that I'm still standing
John Mellencamp's, "Jack And Diane"
Misheard Lyrics:
A little ditty 'bout Jack & Diane
Two unremarkable kids growing up in a hot land
Original Lyrics:
A little ditty 'bout Jack & Diane
Two American kids growing up in the heart land
Kool And The Gang's, "Celebration"
Misheard Lyrics:
Let's all celebrate at Hanukkah time
Original Lyrics:
Let's all celebrate and have a good time
Paul Young's, "The Love of the Common People"
Misheard Lyrics:
Daddy's gonna buy you a drink to cling to.
Original Lyrics:
Daddy's gonna buy you a dream to cling to.
Prince's, "Little Red Corvette"
Misheard Lyrics:
Pay the rent collect
Original Lyrics:
Little Red Corvette
Split Enz's, "Famous People"
Misheard Lyrics:
Fame up the speed boat
Original Lyrics:
Famous people
Twisted Sister's, "We're Not Gonna Take It"
Misheard Lyrics:
We're not goin' to daycare
Original Lyrics:
No, we ain't gonna take it.
Wham!'s, "Last Christmas"
Misheard Lyrics:
This year, to save my frontiers
I'll give it to some old spaceman
Original Lyrics:
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special.
 
1990s
Adam and the Ants', "Stand & Deliver"
Misheard Lyrics:
Stand in the liver
Your money or your wife
Look in the mirror
A bully all your life
Original Lyrics:
Stand and deliver
Your money or your life
Try and use a mirror
No bullet or a knife
Barenaked Ladies', "One Week"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm the kinda guy that laughs at a funeral
Can't understand why the dead can't live a little
Original Lyrics:
I'm the kinda guy that laughs at a funeral
Can't understand what I mean, well, soon you will
Dr. John's, "My Opinionation (Blossom theme)"
Misheard Lyrics:
Snap on your fossils
Original Lyrics:
Stop all your fussing
Eiffel 65's, "Blue (Da Ba Dee)"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm blue if I was green i would die
Original Lyrics:
Da bee, da ba dee ba da die.
Elton John's, "Candle in the Wind 1997"
Misheard Lyrics:
And your footsteps will always forget
Long England's greenest hills
Original Lyrics:
And your footsteps will always fall here
Along England's greenest hills
Elton John's, "Sacrifice"
Misheard Lyrics:
When they sent off old Angus
And temptation's strong.
Original Lyrics:
When the scent of her lingers
And temptation's strong.
Elton John's, "Sacrifice"
Misheard Lyrics:
With a set of malingerers
Agitation's strong.
Original Lyrics:
When the scent of her lingers
And temptation's strong.
Metallica's, "Creeping Death"
Misheard Lyrics:
So make me richer,
Filet mignon
Original Lyrics:
So let it be written
So let it be done
Ohio Players', "Love Rollercoaster"
Misheard Lyrics:
Eggs and rhyme, now
Original Lyrics:
A crazy ride, now
Theme Songs', "Second Time Around (Step by Step theme)"
Misheard Lyrics:
Let's start over
A different hand to blame
Original Lyrics:
A fresh start over
A different hand to play
Tori Amos', "Pretty Good Year"
Misheard Lyrics:
Hold onto nothing
As fast as Shakira
Original Lyrics:
Hold onto nothing
As fast as you can
 
2000s
Black Lips', "Short Fuse"
Misheard Lyrics:
Fart in my mouth
Original Lyrics:
40-watt bulb
Commercial's, "Daisy Sour Cream"
Misheard Lyrics:
I ate a butt with a dollop, a dollop.. I ate Daisys ass with a dollop, a dollop A dollop of Daisy!
Original Lyrics:
do do do, do do a dollop, do do do do do a dollop of daisy!
Dr. John's, "Like Curious George!"
Misheard Lyrics:
When you're furious, like Curious George
Original Lyrics:
When you're curious, like Curious George
Marina and the Diamonds', "Scab and Plaster"
Misheard Lyrics:
I fell in stunned relief
Original Lyrics:
I found instant relief
Marina and the Diamonds', "Scab and Plaster"
Misheard Lyrics:
I sinned a thousand seas
Original Lyrics:
I sailed a thousand seas
The Gaslight Anthem's, "The '59 Sound"
Misheard Lyrics:
I hope we don't hear Marley's chains before July
Original Lyrics:
I hope we don't hear Marley's chains we forged in life
 
2010s
Marina and the Diamonds', "The Outsider"
Misheard Lyrics:
I hit myself in the face
Original Lyrics:
I look at myself in the fice
Marina and the Diamonds', "The Outsider"
Misheard Lyrics:
These people are real in here
Original Lyrics:
These people are weird in here
Theme Songs', "Astroblast!"
Misheard Lyrics:
When you're up and out of space
In searching for the greatest face
Original Lyrics:
When you're up in outer space
And searching for the greatest place
 
country
Billy Gilman's, "Oklahoma"
Misheard Lyrics:
Suitcase packed with all his themes
Original Lyrics:
Suitcase packed with all his things
Helen Reddy's, "I Am Woman"
Misheard Lyrics:
I am woman hear me roar
I am someone to ignore
Original Lyrics:
I am woman hear me roar
In numbers too big to ignore
 
misc
Commercial's, "Vlasic"
Misheard Lyrics:
Now that's the best chasing pickle I ever hurled
Original Lyrics:
Now that's the best tasting pickle I ever heard
Traditional's, "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt"
Misheard Lyrics:
The peepers always shout
Original Lyrics:
The people always shout

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