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1950s | |
Coasters', "Yakety Yak"
Misheard Lyrics: Your father Skippy mows and cooks
Original Lyrics: Your father's hip; he knows what cooks
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Fess Parker's, "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"
Misheard Lyrics: Killed men in a bar when he was only three
Original Lyrics: Killed him a bear, when he was only three.
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1960s | |
Herman's Hermits', "There's a Kind of Hush"
Misheard Lyrics: There's a can to crush all over the world
Original Lyrics: There's a kind of hush all over the world
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The Beatles', "Act Naturally"
Misheard Lyrics: The movie's gonna make me a big star,
Like Ben Gazzara, you can never tell... Original Lyrics: The movie's gonna make me a big star.
Might win an Oscar, you can never tell... |
The Beatles', "Come Together"
Misheard Lyrics: Come together right now maybe
Original Lyrics: Come together right now over me
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1970s | |
ABBA's, "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)"
Misheard Lyrics: Won't somebody help me chase this child somewhere?
Original Lyrics: Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away?
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Andy Gibb's, "I Just Want to Be Your Everything"
Misheard Lyrics: And let me be, the things you are to me, and add some burpin' on a strem.
Original Lyrics: And let me be, the things you are to me, and not some puppet on a string.
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Bee Gees', "Staying Alive"
Misheard Lyrics: Well you can tell by the way I do my walk I'm a homeless man, no time to talk
Original Lyrics: Well you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a woman's man, no time to talk
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Frankie Valli's, "Grease"
Misheard Lyrics: Convince you now that tea belongs to yesterday.
Original Lyrics: Conventionality belongs to yesterday.
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Genesis', "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"
Misheard Lyrics: Kamek's velvet glove sounds the horn
Original Lyrics: Cabman's velvet glove sounds the horn
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Genesis', "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"
Misheard Lyrics: Night Man's flyers feel their pains
Original Lyrics: Nighttime's flyers feel their pains
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Gloria Gaynor's, "Reach Out I'll Be There"
Misheard Lyrics: Now if you feel that you can't go wrong
Because all of your hope is gum Original Lyrics: Now if you feel that you can't go on
Because all of your hope is gone |
Joe Walsh's, "Rocky Mountain Way"
Misheard Lyrics: 'Cause we don't need the latest crime 'cause the story's sad
Original Lyrics: 'Cause we don't need the ladies
Cryin' 'cause the story's sad |
Olivia Newton-John's, "Have You Never Been Mellow?"
Misheard Lyrics: Have you ever done melons?
Original Lyrics: Have you never been mellow?
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Olivia Newton-John's, "Let It Shine"
Misheard Lyrics: A woman needs a love life to keep her body warm
You know without that love life, well a man can take her home Original Lyrics: A woman needs a lovelight to keep her body warm
You know without that lovelight, well a mind can do her harm |
Olivia Newton-John's, "Something Better to Do"
Misheard Lyrics: I won't be 'round in the moonlight
And I'll just sleep in my tent Original Lyrics: I won't be out in the moonlight
And I'll be sleeping by ten |
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: A built in remedy but goodbye virginity
Original Lyrics: A built-in remedy for Khrushchev and Kennedy.
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T Rex's, "Ride My Wheels"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm just a Barbie, a toy
Ride my wheels Original Lyrics: I'm just a boy
Be my toy Ride my wheels |
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1980s | |
ABBA's, "Under Attack"
Misheard Lyrics: Under attack I'm being taken
Without a crack the fence is breaking Original Lyrics: Under attack, I'm being taken
About to crack, defenses breaking. |
Genesis', "Paperlate"
Misheard Lyrics: Just sittin' drippin' in booze below
Original Lyrics: Just sittin' drippin' in pools below
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Nik Kershaw's, "The Riddle"
Misheard Lyrics: Here I dream by the river,
There's a hole in the ground Original Lyrics: Near a tree by a river there's a hole in the ground
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Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, and Chaka Khan's, "I'll Be Good to You"
Misheard Lyrics: Kick a shower OR take a shower you know what I mean baby, anything you want
Original Lyrics: Take you shopping, you know what I mean baby, anything you want
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Stevie Nicks', "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"
Misheard Lyrics: This doesn't have to be the big Cat Heaver!
This doesn't have to be anything at all. Original Lyrics: This doesn't have to be the big Get-Even.
This doesn't have to be anything at all. |
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Survivor's, "Eye Of The Tiger"
Misheard Lyrics: And the last known survivors don't say prayers in the night.
OR And the last known survivor toasts his bread in the night. Original Lyrics: And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night.
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Technotronic's, "Pump Up the Jam"
Misheard Lyrics: Ottawa, a place to stay
Original Lyrics: I don't want a place to stay.
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The Clash's, "Rock the Casbah"
Misheard Lyrics: The sheriff don't like it
Rocking with Caspar Rocking with Caspar Original Lyrics: Shariff don't like it
Rock the Casbah Rock the Casbah |
The Psychedelic Furs', "Pretty in Pink"
Misheard Lyrics: She says I love Ewan too much
Original Lyrics: She says, "I love you" and "Too much"
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1990s | |
Bjork's, "Hyperballad"
Misheard Lyrics: I go through a list
Before you wake up So I can feel her fear And be saved again with you Original Lyrics: I go through all this
Before you wake up So I can feel happier To be safe up here with you. |
Nirvana's, "You Know You're Right"
Misheard Lyrics: You know your ride height
Original Lyrics: You know you're right
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Pearl Jam's, "Daughter"
Misheard Lyrics: The piece of s*** will remind me.
Original Lyrics: The picture kept will remind me.
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Savage Garden's, "To The Moon And Back"
Misheard Lyrics: And now she's waiting for the right kind of palette to come
Original Lyrics: And now she's waiting for the right kind of pilot to come
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The Proclaimers', "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"
Misheard Lyrics: Turn the lights down
Original Lyrics: Da da da da
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Vanessa Williams', "Save the Best for Last"
Misheard Lyrics: Hugo will save the best for last.
Original Lyrics: You go and save the best for last.
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2000s | |
Fall Out Boy's, "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm a little man
Original Lyrics: I'm a leading man
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Madonna's, "Hung Up"
Misheard Lyrics: Ghosts who run seem to have a good time
Original Lyrics: Those who run seem to have all the fun
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Marina and the Diamonds', "Starlight"
Misheard Lyrics: Stars are never bright till they're ready to die
Original Lyrics: Stars of love are bright till they're ready to die
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Uncle Kracker ft. Dobie Gray's, "Drift Away"
Misheard Lyrics: And when the mime is free
The old melody can move me. Original Lyrics: And when my mind is free
You know a melody can move me. |
Zebrahead's, "Back to Normal"
Misheard Lyrics: Every question I've learned
Original Lyrics: And I crash and burn
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2010s | |
Black Veil Brides', "Fallen Angels"
Misheard Lyrics: We were constipated on living on our own
Original Lyrics: We were contemplating on living on our own
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Marina and the Diamonds', "E.V.O.L"
Misheard Lyrics: To fuck a glove and make it E.V.O.L
Original Lyrics: To fuck up love and make it evil
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Marina and the Diamonds', "Immortal"
Misheard Lyrics: Like a girl in the sky
Original Lyrics: Like a god in the sky
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Marina and the Diamonds', "Rootless"
Misheard Lyrics: F***ing done without a king
Original Lyrics: A kingdom without a king
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One Direction's, "Drag Me Down"
Misheard Lyrics: I got a river for a soul
And baby you're a bowl Original Lyrics: I got a river for a soul
And baby you're a boat |
Shawn Mendes', "Stitches"
Misheard Lyrics: Needle in the bed, gotta get you outta my head
Needle in the bed, gonna wind up dead Original Lyrics: Needle and the thread, gotta get you outta my head
Needle and the thread, gonna wind up dead |
misc | |
Bruce Springsteen's, "10th Ave.Freezeout"
Misheard Lyrics: Dead Devil in the Freezer.
Original Lyrics: Tenth Avenue Freeze out
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Coldplay's, "Clocks"
Misheard Lyrics: Or am I part of Ms. Mindy
Original Lyrics: Or am I part of the disease
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xmas | |
John Denver and the Muppets', "The 12 Days of Christmas"
Misheard Lyrics: (And) A partridge in a fair tree
Original Lyrics: (And) A partridge in a pear tree
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One More Time's, "The Twelve Days After Christmas"
Misheard Lyrics: On the first day after Christmas, my true love and I had a fight
And so I chopped the pear tree down and burned it just for smite. Original Lyrics: On the first day after Christmas, my true love and I had a fight
And so I chopped the pear tree down and burned it just for spite. |
Traditional's, "Silent Night"
Misheard Lyrics: Holy instant so tender and mild
Original Lyrics: Holy infant so tender and mild
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