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1960s | |
Beach Boys', "Help Me, Rhonda"
Misheard Lyrics: Well, Rhonda you look so fine (look so fine),
But I can't afford the reason why. Original Lyrics: Well, Rhonda you look so fine (look so fine),
And I know it wouldn't take much time. |
Petula Clark's, "Don't Sleep In The Subway"
Misheard Lyrics: You wander around on your own little cloud
When you don't see the wine or the weapon. Original Lyrics: You wander around on your own little cloud
When you don't see the why or the wherefore. |
Queen's, "We Are The Champions"
Misheard Lyrics: It's been no bed of roses, no flesh or cruel
Original Lyrics: It's been no bed of roses. no pleasure cruise
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The Beatles', "Why Don't We Do It in the Road"
Misheard Lyrics: Why don't we do it in a row?
Original Lyrics: Why don't we do it in the road?
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The Grass Roots', "Midnight Confessions"
Misheard Lyrics: Good morning Dr. Pepper
Original Lyrics: In my midnight confessions
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1970s | |
Aerosmith's, "You See Me Crying"
Misheard Lyrics: Honey whatcha done to your hair?
Original Lyrics: Honey whatcha done to your head?
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B.J. Thomas', "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head"
Misheard Lyrics: Nothing seems to fill
Original Lyrics: Nothing seems to fit
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Captain & Tennille's, "Love Will Keep Us Together"
Misheard Lyrics: Lunch
Lunch with cheese curls together Original Lyrics: Love
Love will keep us together |
Donna Summer's, "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It"
Misheard Lyrics: Tie me, tie me, tie me, tie me
Just for love Original Lyrics: Try me, try me, try me, try me
Just one time |
Elton John's, "Saturday Night's All Right for Fighting"
Misheard Lyrics: Don't give us more of your "had a vision",
We've had with your Death Star plan. Original Lyrics: Don't give us none of your aggravation
We had it with your discipline. |
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Jackson 5's, "Maybe Tomorrow"
Misheard Lyrics: I help you to write, I conceive
Original Lyrics: I held you too tight, I can see
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Jackson 5's, "The Love You Save"
Misheard Lyrics: When we were bag in preschool
Original Lyrics: When we played tag in grade school
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Little Feat's, "Willin'"
Misheard Lyrics: now I smoked a rope of dope from Mexico
Original Lyrics: now I smuggled some smokes and folks from Mexico
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Mashup's, "The Safety Family"
Misheard Lyrics: Wii play family
Original Lyrics: We are family
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TV Commercial's, "Here Comes the Bud (Budweiser)"
Misheard Lyrics: The King is common
Original Lyrics: The King is comin'
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The Doors', "L.A. Woman"
Misheard Lyrics: Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows
Original Lyrics: Laid a little girl in a Hollywood Bungalow
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Theme Songs', "Good Times"
Misheard Lyrics: He's a crazy rip-off!
Original Lyrics: Easy credit rip-offs (Good times)
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1980s | |
Captain & Tennille's, "Do That to Me One More Time"
Misheard Lyrics: What is never enough for a man's I.Q.
Original Lyrics: Once is never enough for a man like you
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Emmett Otter (Muppets)'s, "Barbecue"
Misheard Lyrics: That's a pretty girl dancing to jug band music and a mess of mama's barbe-, mess of mama's barbe-, mess of mama's barbecue.
A mess of mama's barbeque. Original Lyrics: That's a pretty girl dancing to jug band music and a Nessa Meyers barbe-, Nessa Meyers barbe-, Nessa Meyers barbecue.
A Nessa Meyers barbeque. |
Genesis', "Invisible Touch"
Misheard Lyrics: She's just a half-pint, busy body tough s***!
She'll turn around and grab right hold of your heart. Original Lyrics: She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah!
She reaches in, and grabs right hold of your heart |
George Benson's, "Turn Your Love Around"
Misheard Lyrics: Don't you turn me on
Original Lyrics: Don't you turn me down
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Natalie Cole's, "Miss You Like Crazy"
Misheard Lyrics: Guess you like rabies
Original Lyrics: Miss you like crazy
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Ozzy Osbourne's, "Bark at the Moon"
Misheard Lyrics: Pockets a love!
Original Lyrics: Bark at the moon!
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Toto's, "Angel Don't Cry"
Misheard Lyrics: You laid your tender trap
Of Bristol and white. Original Lyrics: You laid your tender trap
Of crystals and wine. |
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1990s | |
10,000 Maniacs', "Because the Night"
Misheard Lyrics: Bebop the noun, because true lovers.
Bebop the noun, because true lies. Original Lyrics: Because the night belongs to lovers.
Because the night belongs to us. |
Bad Religion's, "Digital Boy"
Misheard Lyrics: The things they're saying to me
It's going "yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, ya", oh yeah 'Cause I'm a twenty first century digital boy Original Lyrics: The things they're saying to me
It's going "ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya", oh yeah 'Cause I'm a twenty first century digital boy |
Bee Gees', "Stayin' Alive"
Misheard Lyrics: Quiero five guys dame five guys
Original Lyrics: Stayin' alive stayin' alive
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Foo Fighters', "Live-in Skin"
Misheard Lyrics: Head on with my hate, into the lights ahead
I'm amazed that I'm still standing thereafter I demand that we're all brain-dead Original Lyrics: Head on with my hate, into the lights ahead
I'm amazed that I'm still standing and I demand that we all blend in |
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch's, "Good Vibrations"
Misheard Lyrics: It's just a good vibration.
It's just a good six six nine. Original Lyrics: It's just a good vibration.
It's just a sensation. |
Prefab Sprout's, "King of Rock 'n' Roll"
Misheard Lyrics: Hot dog, smoking frog, I love Turkey
Original Lyrics: Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque.
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Smash Mouth's, "All Star"
Misheard Lyrics: All that turkey's cold
Original Lyrics: All that glitters is gold.
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2000s | |
Five for Fighting's, "100 Years"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm (insert age) for a morning
Original Lyrics: I'm (insert age) for a moment
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Five for Fighting's, "Superman (It's Not Easy)"
Misheard Lyrics: And it's not easy to pay me
Original Lyrics: And it's not easy to be me
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Five for Fighting's, "The Riddle (You and I)"
Misheard Lyrics: There's a raisin to believe
Original Lyrics: There's a reason to believe
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Hedley's, "Trip"
Misheard Lyrics: I know this is Hedley
And you woke me from this tree Original Lyrics: Like a tonne of bricks, it hit me
And woke me from this dream |
The Fray's, "How to Save a Life"
Misheard Lyrics: How to save a light
Original Lyrics: How to Save a Life
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2010s | |
Adele's, "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)"
Misheard Lyrics: Send my love to your new lover
Cheese and butter Original Lyrics: Send my love to your new lover
Treat her better |
Bastille's, "Pompeii"
Misheard Lyrics: Where do we begin the rumpel of our sins?
Original Lyrics: Where do we begin the rubble of our sins?
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Hurts', "Policewoman"
Misheard Lyrics: When I hear those sirens coming
My iron maiden's running To serve and protect my lovin' The lights shine red and blue Original Lyrics: When I hear those sirens coming
My iron maiden's running To serve and protect my love And the lights shine red and blue |
Maroon 5's, "It Was Always You"
Misheard Lyrics: Woke up swinging from a tree
Original Lyrics: Woke up sweating from a dream
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R.City ft. Adam Levine's, "Locked Away"
Misheard Lyrics: If I ga laku way
Original Lyrics: If I got locked away
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Shawn Mendes', "Stitches"
Misheard Lyrics: Bleed until I can't breed, chicken, farting onto monkeys
Original Lyrics: Bleed until I can't breathe, shaking falling onto my knees
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Swedish House Mafia's, "Don't You Worry Child"
Misheard Lyrics: Jihad has got a plan for you
Original Lyrics: See heaven's got a plan for you
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misc | |
Bruce Springsteen's, "10th Ave. Freezeout"
Misheard Lyrics: Temp devil in the freeze aisle
Original Lyrics: Tenth Avenue freeze out
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xmas | |
Amy Grant's, "I Need a Silent Night"
Misheard Lyrics: I need a silent night, a holy night,
To hear an angel voice through the kiosk and the noise. Original Lyrics: I need a silent night, a holy night,
To hear an angel voice through the chaos and the noise. |
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