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1950s | |
Elvis Presley's, "I'm All Shook Up"
Misheard Lyrics: A mall shook up
Original Lyrics: I'm all shook up
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1960s | |
Peter Sarstedt's, "Where Do You Go to My Lovely"
Misheard Lyrics: Won't you tell me the farts that surround you.
Original Lyrics: Won't you tell me the thoughts that surround you.
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Steppenwolf's, "Born to Be Wild"
Misheard Lyrics: Barn to be wild
or Farm to be wild Original Lyrics: Born to Be Wild
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The Band's, "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
Misheard Lyrics: You can't sprained the cane back up when it's in the feed
Original Lyrics: You can't raise a Caine back up
When it's in defeat. |
The Beatles', "Can't Buy Me Love"
Misheard Lyrics: Can't fall in love
Original Lyrics: Can't buy me love
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The Beatles', "Paper Back Writer"
Misheard Lyrics: Ape, the Back Rider!
Original Lyrics: Paper back writer
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1970s | |
Billy Joel's, "Big Shot"
Misheard Lyrics: Go on and cry in your carpet but don't come bitching to me
Original Lyrics: Go on and cry in your coffee but don't come bitching to me
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Billy Joel's, "Big Shot"
Misheard Lyrics: You're so much fun to tease around
Original Lyrics: You're so much fun to be around
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Captain & Tennille's, "Love Will Keep Us Together"
Misheard Lyrics: I win, I win, I win, I win
Original Lyrics: I will, I will, I will, I will
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Eric Clapton's, "Lay Down Sally"
Misheard Lyrics: Lay down Sally
The misty midnight hour Original Lyrics: Lay down Sally
And rest you in my arms |
Jethro Tull's, "Bungle in the Jungle"
Misheard Lyrics: By the tiger and the water
Original Lyrics: I'm a tiger and I want love
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Marvin Gaye's, "What's Going On"
Misheard Lyrics: We don't need two Escalades
Original Lyrics: We don't need to escalate
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Roberta Flack's, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
Misheard Lyrics: I thought the song rose in your ass
Original Lyrics: I thought the sun rose in your eyes
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Three Dog Night's, "Eli's Coming"
Misheard Lyrics: You better get away
No you better get away from the bird on a Harley Original Lyrics: No you'll never get away
From the burnin' a heartache |
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1980s | |
AC/DC's, "Highway to Hell"
Misheard Lyrics: Sees a nigger on a one way street
Original Lyrics: Season ticket on a one way ride.
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Alvin and the Chipmunks', "Alvin and the Chipmunks"
Misheard Lyrics: He missed the cartwheel
Original Lyrics: Give us a call, we'll
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Billy Joel's, "Sometimes a Fantasy"
Misheard Lyrics: Ooh, do you wanna do it but I got too lonely
Original Lyrics: I didn't wanna do it but I got too lonely
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Eurythmics', "Here Comes the Rain Again"
Misheard Lyrics: Here comes Elaine again
Original Lyrics: Here comes the rain again
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Golden Earring's, "Twilight Zone"
Misheard Lyrics: Baseball on the borderline
Original Lyrics: This far from the borderline
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John Mellencamp's, "Rain on the Scarecrow"
Misheard Lyrics: Carted a fresh shipment of dioxin off the land
Original Lyrics: Called my old friend Schepman up to auction off the land
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Michael Anderson's, "Sound Alarm"
Misheard Lyrics: Summer gettin' R.S.V.P.
Original Lyrics: It's Armageddon R.S.V.P.
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Midnight Oil 's, "Read About It"
Misheard Lyrics: The bombs never hit you when they bounce, oh no
Original Lyrics: The bombs never hit you when you're down so low
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Midnight Oil's, "Only the Strong"
Misheard Lyrics: Backwards four at the point of no return
Original Lyrics: Back once more at the point of no return
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Midnight Oil's, "Short Memory"
Misheard Lyrics: Tongue twisted out of Mexico
Original Lyrics: Conquistador of Mexico
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Midnight Oil's, "Tin Legs and Tin Mines"
Misheard Lyrics: Boston by candles, pall the bear pride
Original Lyrics: Boxed in like candles, polar bear pride
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Olivia Newton-John's, "Magic"
Misheard Lyrics: Planets alive, soaring
Original Lyrics: Planets align, so rare
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The B-52's', "Love Shack"
Misheard Lyrics: This song is a f***ing bag of pure shite!!
Original Lyrics: Love shack, baby love shack
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1990s | |
Alice in Chains', "Down in a Hole"
Misheard Lyrics: But my wings have been soiled and I
Original Lyrics: But my wings have been so denied.
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Korn's, "Shoots and Ladders"
Misheard Lyrics: Look at the pages of Cosmo to see them.
Original Lyrics: Look at the pages that cause all this evil.
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Marcy Playground's, "Sex and Candy"
Misheard Lyrics: Who's that casting deep fierce stares in my direction?
Original Lyrics: Who's that casting devious stares in my direction?
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Nirvana's, "Rape Me"
Misheard Lyrics: My fingers are so hoarse.
Original Lyrics: My favorite inside source.
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Tim McGraw's, "Indian Outlaw"
Misheard Lyrics: I'll be beating on my tauntaun
Original Lyrics: I'll be beating on my tom-tom
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Tom Cochrane's, "Life Is a Highway"
Misheard Lyrics: From Mozambique to those Memphis nights, the Khyber Pass has been "Google-ized"
Original Lyrics: From Mozambique to those Memphis nights, the Khyber Pass to Vancouver's lights
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2000s | |
Green Day's, "Warning"
Misheard Lyrics: Keep out of reaches of the duchess of destruction.
Original Lyrics: Keep out of reach of children, don't you talk to strangers!
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Gwen Stefani's, "Hollaback Girl"
Misheard Lyrics: There ain't no hotter black girl.
Original Lyrics: I ain't no hollaback girl.
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Kings of Leon's, "Sex on Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: Your sax is on fire
Original Lyrics: Your sex is on fire
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Natasha Bedingfield's, "Pocketful Of Sunshine"
Misheard Lyrics: I got a love and an old dirty salt mine.
Original Lyrics: I got a love and I know that it's all mine.
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Norah Jones', "Come Away with Me"
Misheard Lyrics: come away with me where they can't stint us with their lies
Original Lyrics: Come away
Where they can't tempt us with their lies. |
Outkast's, "B.O.B."
Misheard Lyrics: Don't go to Bangkok unless you came to bang
Original Lyrics: Don't pull the thang out unless you plan to bang
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Papa Roach's, "...To Be Loved"
Misheard Lyrics: Put your penalty to metal
Original Lyrics: Put your pedal to the medal
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Radiohead's, "Idioteque"
Misheard Lyrics: We're not scared; bung her in.
Original Lyrics: We're not scaremongering.
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Radiohead's, "Optimistic"
Misheard Lyrics: A thousand boys around my head.
Original Lyrics: Flies are buzzing round my head.
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Train's, "Cab"
Misheard Lyrics: Sometimes I feel like the only cat on the roof
Original Lyrics: Sometimes I feel like the only cab on the road.
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2010s | |
Ed Sheeran's, "Castle On The Hill"
Misheard Lyrics: We watched the sunset
Over the cots of Lonely Hill or Over the cottage of Lonely Hill Original Lyrics: We watched the sunset
Over the castle on the hill |
Jason Derulo's, "Want To Want Me"
Misheard Lyrics: Just the bod of you, gives me so what
So what Original Lyrics: Just the thought of you gets me so high
So high |
Meghan Trainor's, "All About That Bass"
Misheard Lyrics: Because you know I'm all about duh-base, 'bout duh-base, no trouble
Original Lyrics: Because you know I'm all about that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
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Pink's, "Blow Me One Last Kiss"
Misheard Lyrics: I want Miss
Original Lyrics: I won't miss all of the fighting that we always did
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