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1960s | |
Canned Heat's, "Going Up the Country"
Misheard Lyrics: Where do you want to go?
Original Lyrics: Baby, don't you want to go?
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1970s | |
Al Stewart's, "Year of the Cat"
Misheard Lyrics: Big Talari contemplating a crime
Original Lyrics: Peter Lorre contemplating a crime
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Jackson 5's, "I'll Be There"
Misheard Lyrics: With a non sure for love of respect you
Original Lyrics: With an unselfish love that respects you.
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Jackson 5's, "The Love You Save"
Misheard Lyrics: But chasing forth to get so hard
You tried so hard you quit Original Lyrics: But chasing boys was just a fad
You crossed your heart you'd quit. |
Lynyrd Skynyrd's, "Free Bird"
Misheard Lyrics: And if I stay here with blue birds
Things just wouldn't be ashamed Original Lyrics: And if I stay here with you girl
Things just wouldn't be the same |
Parliament's, "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)"
Misheard Lyrics: Let your single turn this ow to ow
Original Lyrics: Let us in we'll tear this mother out
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Peter Frampton's, "Baby I Love Your Way"
Misheard Lyrics: But don't pass a teddy bear
Original Lyrics: But don't hesitate
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Roberta Flack's, "Killing Me Softly with His Song"
Misheard Lyrics: Singing clearing strum
Original Lyrics: Singing clear and strong
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Todd Rundgren's, "Hello It's Me"
Misheard Lyrics: It's somebody to me
Original Lyrics: It's important to me
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1980s | |
Christopher Cross', "Sailing"
Misheard Lyrics: Oh the kin-skinned and miracles, just you wait and see
Original Lyrics: The canvas can do miracles
Just you wait and see. |
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Don Henley's, "All She Wants to Do Is Dance"
Misheard Lyrics: They're picking up business and putting them into Ben
Original Lyrics: They're picking up the prisoners and putting them in a pen.
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Michael Jackson's, "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
Misheard Lyrics: You rude vegetable, you rude vegetable.
You rude vegetable, you rude vegetable. They hate you, you rude vegetable. A double play, you rude vegetable. They hate all of you, you rude vegetable. Original Lyrics: You're a vegetable, you're a vegetable.
You're a vegetable, you're a vegetable. Still they hate you, you're a vegetable. You're just a buffet, you're a vegetable. They eat off of you, you're a vegetable. |
Ozzy Osbourne's, "Bark at the Moon"
Misheard Lyrics: Bah kah Shamuu
Original Lyrics: Bark at the moon!
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Phil Collins', "A Groovy Kind of Love"
Misheard Lyrics: a groupie kinda love
OR a group he kinda loved Original Lyrics: a groovy kind of love
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Sly Fox's, "Let's Go All the Way"
Misheard Lyrics: Sitting here with my finger trying to work it out.
Original Lyrics: Sitting with 'The Thinker', trying to work it out.
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Stevie Nicks and Don Henley's, "Leather and Lace"
Misheard Lyrics: You're in the moonlight
With your sleeping eyes Original Lyrics: You're in the moonlight
With your sleepy eyes |
The Go-Go's', "Head Over Heels"
Misheard Lyrics: It's like Napoleon out of synch
Original Lyrics: It's like the whole world's out of sync
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Wang Chung's, "Dance Hall Days"
Misheard Lyrics: dance all daidlo
Original Lyrics: dance all day long
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Wham!'s, "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"
Misheard Lyrics: Dont leave me hanging on a lightning yoyo
Original Lyrics: Don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo.
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1990s | |
Blur's, "Song 2"
Misheard Lyrics: Woo hoo! When I feel Heavy Metal.
Woo hoo! And I'm pins and I'm needles. Woo hoo! And I lie and I'm easy. All the time but I'm never sure why I need you. He's a Ninja! Original Lyrics: Woo hoo! When I feel Heavy Metal.
Woo hoo! And I'm pins and I'm needles. Woo hoo! Well I lie and I'm easy. All the time but I am never sure why I need you. Pleased to meet you! |
Celine Dion's, "The Power of Love"
Misheard Lyrics: 'Cause I'm Greg Brady
Original Lyrics: 'Cause I'm your lady
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Chumbawamba's, "Tubthumping"
Misheard Lyrics: Oh, Daddy boy Daddy boy Daddy boy
Original Lyrics: Oh, Danny boy, Danny boy, Danny boy
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Don McLean's, "American Pie"
Misheard Lyrics: With a fake carnation and a picker drug
Original Lyrics: With a pink carnation and a pickup truck
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Fastball's, "The Way"
Misheard Lyrics: You can see a shatter
Original Lyrics: You can see the shadows
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Steve Perry's, "I Stand Alone"
Misheard Lyrics: Steel, I will remember,
Steel, I'll run with you, yeah. Original Lyrics: Still, I will remember,
Still, I'll run with you, yeah. |
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2000s | |
Arctic Monkeys', "Crying Lightning"
Misheard Lyrics: And my thoughts got rude as you talked and chewed on the last of your pecan mix
Original Lyrics: And my thoughts got rude as you talked and chewed on the last of your pick and mix
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Bowling for Soup's, "Girl All the Bad Guys Want"
Misheard Lyrics: She likes the gunshots and I like Cajun orange
Original Lyrics: She likes the Godsmack and I like Agent Orange
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Fall Out Boy's, "Where Did the Party Go"
Misheard Lyrics: When she touched him he turned, oh he read
A story that they'll never forget Original Lyrics: When she touched him he turned ruby red
A story that they'll never forget |
Gorillaz's, "Dare"
Misheard Lyrics: Never did no ham! Never did no ham! It's there!
Original Lyrics: Never did no harm! Never did no harm! It's dare!
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Louise's, "Beautiful Inside"
Misheard Lyrics: Doesn't matter 'bout the clothes of depression
Original Lyrics: Doesn't matter 'bout the clothes I'm dressed in
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OutKast's, "Hey Ya!"
Misheard Lyrics: Don't try to fight the filling
Original Lyrics: Don't try to fight the feeling
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T.V. Commercial's, "Burger King"
Misheard Lyrics: At BK, you farted!
Original Lyrics: At BK, you got it!
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Taylor Swift's, "Our Song"
Misheard Lyrics: The first eight men I didn't kiss them and I should have
Original Lyrics: The first date "man I didn't kiss her, and I should have"
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Train's, "Brick By Brick"
Misheard Lyrics: It's not too late
To believe that we can hail in all again Original Lyrics: It's not too late
To believe that we can get it all again |
Train's, "You Already Know"
Misheard Lyrics: At least the world started never ever enough
Original Lyrics: At least the one side of you I thought I knew
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2010s | |
Commercial 's, "Big Lots Christmas commercial"
Misheard Lyrics: Got these awesome gifts for my kids' creatures, and my mailman and my neighbors
Original Lyrics: Got these awesome gifts for my kids' teachers, and my mailman and my neighbors
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Drake's, "One Dance"
Misheard Lyrics: I ain't need no
One dance gotta plant a seed In my ass Original Lyrics: And that's why I need a one dance, got a Henessy
In my hand |
Fall Out Boy's, "Twin Skeletons"
Misheard Lyrics: that shares our feet and deserves our pity
Original Lyrics: that shares our fate and deserves our pity.
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Grateful Dead's, "Franklins Tower"
Misheard Lyrics: Roll away the doobie
Original Lyrics: Roll away the Dew
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Hailee Steinfeld's, "Starving"
Misheard Lyrics: Haddaway, Haddaway
Original Lyrics: by the way, by the way
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Hozier's, "Take Me to Church"
Misheard Lyrics: My lover's got a tumour,
And I giggled in her funeral Original Lyrics: My lover's got humour
She's the giggle at a funeral |
Sia's, "Cheap Thrills"
Misheard Lyrics: Baby I don't need coloured pills to have fun tonight
Original Lyrics: Baby I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight
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Taylor Swift's, "I Don't Wanna Live Forever"
Misheard Lyrics: Now I'm in a cat box
Tell me where your place is Original Lyrics: Now I'm in a cab
I'll tell 'em where your place is |
Twenty One Pilots', "Stressed Out"
Misheard Lyrics: Wish I could turn back time, to the good dope days, when our momma says go to sleep now but we're stressed out
Original Lyrics: Wish we could turn back time, to the good old days, when our momma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out
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