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1960s
Bobby Vee's, "Take Good Care of My Baby"
Misheard Lyrics:
Take good care of my eyes, maybe
Original Lyrics:
Take good care of my baby
Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor's, "Green Acres"
Misheard Lyrics:
I get emergent smiling hay
Original Lyrics:
I get allergic smelling hay
Simon & Garfunkel's, "Mrs. Robinson"
Misheard Lyrics:
Where have you gone? Show the banj-i-o!
Original Lyrics:
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
 
1970s
America's, "Horse with No Name"
Misheard Lyrics:
I've been through the desert on a horse with no legs..
Original Lyrics:
I've been through the desert on a horse with no name...
Eagles', "Hotel California"
Misheard Lyrics:
Said she loved the place (said she loved the place)
Said she loved your face
Original Lyrics:
Such a lovely place (such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
Eagles', "Witchy Woman"
Misheard Lyrics:
Bitchy walnut
Original Lyrics:
Witchy woman
Eddie Money's, "Baby Hold On"
Misheard Lyrics:
Betty, hold on to me
Original Lyrics:
Baby hold on to me
Jimmy Buffett's, "Margaritaville"
Misheard Lyrics:
I blew out my flip flops
Slipped on a pop tart
Bruised my heel had to cruise on back home
Original Lyrics:
I blew out my flip flop,
Stepped on a pop top
Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home
Jimmy Buffett's, "Margaritaville"
Misheard Lyrics:
Reachin' for my last pitcher of malt
Original Lyrics:
Searchin' for my lost shaker of salt.
Journey's, "Lights"
Misheard Lyrics:
Well my friends, I'm only two
Original Lyrics:
Well my friends are lonely too
Linda Ronstadt's, "Ooo Baby Baby"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm just a brown-out in enema row
Original Lyrics:
I'm just about at the end of my rope
Procol Harum's, "Still There Will Be More"
Misheard Lyrics:
I would have lied in the orchid
Original Lyrics:
I'll put a blight in the orchid
Procol Harum's, "Still There Will Be More"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'll drove myself right up to the sky
Original Lyrics:
I'll grow myself right up to the sky
Procol Harum's, "Still There Will Be More"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'll follow the fountains and travel the leaves
Original Lyrics:
I'll foul all the fountains and trample the leaves
The Beatles', "Come Together"
Misheard Lyrics:
Come together right now
Oh the meat
Original Lyrics:
Come together right now
Over me
The O'Jays', "For the Love of Money"
Misheard Lyrics:
Mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy...MOMMY!
Original Lyrics:
Money, money, money, money...MONEY!
Tony Orlando & Dawn's, "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree"
Misheard Lyrics:
Now the ole damn bus is key
Original Lyrics:
Now the whole dame bus is cheering
 
1980s
Anne Murray's, "A Little Good News"
Misheard Lyrics:
Brian Couples was talking about the fighting in Lebanon;
Some senator was squawking about the battered colony
Original Lyrics:
Bryant Gumble was talking about the fighting in Lebanon;
Some senator was squawking about the bad economy
Anne Murray's, "A Little Good News"
Misheard Lyrics:
Nobody filed a shop and anchor
Nobody had to die in pain
Original Lyrics:
Nobody fired a shot in anger,
Nobody had to die in vain.
Anne Murray's, "A Little Good News"
Misheard Lyrics:
Nobody owed deed nobody; burn a single building down
Original Lyrics:
Nobody OD'd; nobody burned a single building down
Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Misheard Lyrics:
Children of the letter Y
Original Lyrics:
Children of thalidomide
Bobby Brown's, "My Prerogative"
Misheard Lyrics:
It's my Veronica
Original Lyrics:
That's my prerogative
Def Leppard's, "Pour Some Sugar on Me"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm high, feelin' sweet, from my head to my feet
Original Lyrics:
I'm hot sticky sweet.
Def Leppard's, "Pour Some Sugar on Me"
Misheard Lyrics:
Take a bottle, drink it up
Take your brother, wake him up
Original Lyrics:
Take the bottle, shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up.
Donald Fagen's, "True Companion"
Misheard Lyrics:
Grooming of the true companion
Original Lyrics:
Crewmen of the true companion
Fine Young Cannibals', "Good Thing"
Misheard Lyrics:
Cooking
Original Lyrics:
Good thing
Fine Young Cannibals', "She Drives Me Crazy"
Misheard Lyrics:
She drives me crazy
Like Norman Ellis
Original Lyrics:
She drives me crazy
Like no one else
Jane Wiedlin's, "Rush Hour"
Misheard Lyrics:
Take me to Russia
Original Lyrics:
Take me to the rush hour
John Mellencamp's, "Cherry Bomb"
Misheard Lyrics:
Outside the club Jerry Bond
Original Lyrics:
Outside the club Cherry Bomb
Phil Collins', "In the Air Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics:
I can hear it coming on Miami Vice
Original Lyrics:
I can hear it coming in the air tonight
The Go Gos', "Our Lips Are Sealed"
Misheard Lyrics:
I am so so young
Original Lyrics:
Our lips are sealed.
Tommy Tutone's, "867-5309 (Jenny)"
Misheard Lyrics:
8675 Threonine
Original Lyrics:
867-5309
Toto's, "Africa"
Misheard Lyrics:
I hear the drones echoing tonight
Original Lyrics:
I hear the drums echoing tonight
Tracy Chapman's, "Fast Car"
Misheard Lyrics:
Season 1, Season 1
Original Lyrics:
Be someone, be someone
 
1990s
311's, "Lemming"
Misheard Lyrics:
Sit your ass down
Original Lyrics:
You crash down
Barenaked Ladies', "One Week"
Misheard Lyrics:
Trying hard not to smile for a fuel man
Original Lyrics:
Trying hard not to smile, though I feel bad
Blur's, "Coffee and TV"
Misheard Lyrics:
So give me coffee MTV.
Please, don't read.
Original Lyrics:
So give me coffee and TV, history.
Phil Collins', "I Wish It Would Rain Down"
Misheard Lyrics:
All this time I stayed out of Psych
Original Lyrics:
All this time I stayed out of sight
Smash Mouth's, "All Star"
Misheard Lyrics:
Somebody once told me the world was macaroni and I ate the shark is cool in the sled
Original Lyrics:
Somebody once told me the world was gonna roll me and I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed
Tracy Chapman's, "Give Me One Reason"
Misheard Lyrics:
Give me one reason too sticky
Original Lyrics:
Give me one reason to stay here
 
2000s
Bad Religion's, "I Love My Computer"
Misheard Lyrics:
I love my crocuta, you never ask her more.
Original Lyrics:
I love my computer, you never ask for more.
Jessica Simpson's, "Angels"
Misheard Lyrics:
And down the wonderful
Original Lyrics:
And down the waterfall
Laurie Berkner 's, "We Are the Dinosaurs "
Misheard Lyrics:
We stop and take a rest, over in our mist.
Original Lyrics:
We stop and take a rest, over in our nest.
Laurie Berkner's, "We Are the Dinosaurs "
Misheard Lyrics:
We stop and take a rest, over in our midst.
Original Lyrics:
We stop and take a rest, over in our nest.
Mariah Carey's, "It's Like That"
Misheard Lyrics:
Denture!
Original Lyrics:
It's like that, yo!
Taylor Swift's, "White Horse"
Misheard Lyrics:
Now it's too late for you and your wide whores to come around.
Original Lyrics:
Now it's too late for you and your white horse to come around.
Uncle Kracker's, "Follow Me"
Misheard Lyrics:
And swim through your bangs, and take a p*** in the sea.
Original Lyrics:
And swim through your veins like a fish in the sea.
 
2010s
Ellie Goulding's, "On My Mind"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'll bet, I'll bet that's why I keep on thinking 'bout you
Just shave
Original Lyrics:
I'll bet, I'll bet that's why I keep on thinking 'bout you
It's a shame
Maroon 5's, "Love Somebody"
Misheard Lyrics:
I really wanna love somebody
I really wanna dance the night away
I know your only half way there
But date me all the way, date me all the way
Original Lyrics:
I really wanna love somebody
I really wanna dance the night away
I know we're only half way there
But you can take me all the way, you can take me all the way
 
christian
Kathie Hill's, "Terminator, Too"
Misheard Lyrics:
The devil's alliance will tear you apart.
Original Lyrics:
The devil's a lion who'll tear you apart.

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