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1960s | |
Barbara Lewis', "Hello Stranger"
Misheard Lyrics: Chew-Bokk, Chew-Bokk, my baby!
Chew-Bokk, Chew-Bokk, hello stranger! Original Lyrics: Shoo-bop Shoo-bop
My baby, Shoo-bop Shoo-bop Hello stranger |
Lou Rawls', "Love is a Hurtin’ Thing"
Misheard Lyrics: The dog goes ruff
Original Lyrics: The road is rough
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Steppenwolf's, "Magic Carpet Ride"
Misheard Lyrics: Grab your seat, we'll set you free
Original Lyrics: Fantasy will set you free
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The Beatles', "Across The Universe"
Misheard Lyrics: Jageroo Daeva Ahmmm
Original Lyrics: Jai Guru Deva
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The Beatles', "Strawberry Fields Forever"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm very tall
Original Lyrics: Cranberry sauce.
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The Kingsmen's, "Louie Louie"
Misheard Lyrics: I rub my bone right in her hair
Original Lyrics: I smell the rose a-in her hair.
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The Kingsmen's, "Louie Louie"
Misheard Lyrics: Tonight at ten I'll lay her again
Original Lyrics: Three nights and days, I sail the sea.
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The Kingsmen's, "Louie, Louie"
Misheard Lyrics: Get that girl, aahh, f*ck away . . .
Original Lyrics: Think of a girl a-constantly . . .
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The Searchers', "Love Potion No. 9"
Misheard Lyrics: Love potion of the night
Original Lyrics: Love potion number nine
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1970s | |
Carpenters', "Calling Ocupants Of Interplanetary Craft"
Misheard Lyrics: calling occupants of interplanetary crap
Original Lyrics: calling occupants of interplanetary craft
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Genesis', "The Knife"
Misheard Lyrics: Promise me all of your violet dreams
Original Lyrics: Promise me all of your violent dreams
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King Harvest's, "Dancing in the Moonlight"
Misheard Lyrics: Everybody feeling a woman right
Original Lyrics: Everybody feeling warm and bright
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1980s | |
AC/DC's, "Highway To Hell"
Misheard Lyrics: Everyone I knew, and we weren't sure, but it sounded to all of us that it said livin easy, running free Send a n****r on a one way ride.
Original Lyrics: Livin' easy, lovin' free
Season ticket on a one way ride. |
Belinda Carlisle's, "Heaven is a Place on Earth"
Misheard Lyrics: Heaven is to play sudden death
Original Lyrics: Heaven is a place on Earth
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Belinda Carlisle's, "Mad About You"
Misheard Lyrics: It's not about you
It's not about me, babe Original Lyrics: I'm mad about you
You're mad about me, babe |
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Chicago's, "Will You Still Love Me?"
Misheard Lyrics: I never had a thing too crude
Original Lyrics: I never had a thing to prove
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Dexy's Midnight Runners', "Geno"
Misheard Lyrics: Batman took the strangest towers swinging high
Original Lyrics: That man took the stage, his towel was swingin' high
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Duran Duran's, "Hungry Like the Wolf"
Misheard Lyrics: herpes of fire
Original Lyrics: earth is afire
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INXS's, "Need You Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics: And give me a Mormon
or And give me a woman Original Lyrics: And give me a moment
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INXS's, "New Sensation"
Misheard Lyrics: Are you ready for a nude temptation?
Original Lyrics: Are you ready for a new sensation?
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Queen's, "Radio Ga Ga"
Misheard Lyrics: All we need is Lady Godiva
Original Lyrics: All we hear is Radio Ga Ga
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R.E.M.'s, "We Walk"
Misheard Lyrics: Take a racist moron's place
OR Take a racist moron's space Original Lyrics: Take oasis, Marat's bathing.
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Rod Stewart's, "My Heart Can't Tell You No"
Misheard Lyrics: Don't you know it's hard, girl?
I mean it's living here Original Lyrics: Don't you know it's torture?
I mean it's living hell |
1990s | |
Cast of Barney & Friends', "Barney Theme Song"
Misheard Lyrics: Honoring a dinosaur from our imagination
Original Lyrics: Barney is a dinosaur from our imagination
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Eiffel 65's, "Blue (Da Ba Dee)"
Misheard Lyrics: If I was green I would die.
Original Lyrics: Da bee, da ba dee ba da die.
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Elton John's, "The One"
Misheard Lyrics: When chants his knees beneath the sidewalk
Original Lyrics: When chances breathe between the silence
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Elton John's, "The One"
Misheard Lyrics: When the second Bethlehem is here
Original Lyrics: In the second that the hammer hits
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L7's, "Pretend We're Dead"
Misheard Lyrics: Rabbit style is the plan
Original Lyrics: Cramping styles is the plan
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L7's, "Pretend We're Dead"
Misheard Lyrics: Turn the tables with our nudity
Original Lyrics: Turn the tables with our unity
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Mark Morrison's, "Return of the Mack"
Misheard Lyrics: Ted Turner, the man
Original Lyrics: Return of the Mack
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Nirvana's, "Territorial Pissings"
Misheard Lyrics: Got to find a wife!
A better wife! What I need! Original Lyrics: Gotta find a way
A better way I had better wait |
Real McCoy's, "Another Night"
Misheard Lyrics: Another night, another dream, another homemade zoo.
Original Lyrics: Another night, another dream, but always you.
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Smash Mouth's, "All Star"
Misheard Lyrics: Somebody once asked could I spare some change for cash
Original Lyrics: Somebody once asked could I spare some change for gas
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The Rembrandts', "I'll Be There For You (Friends Theme)"
Misheard Lyrics: When it hasn't been your day we grow up, and you're here
Original Lyrics: When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month or even your year.
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2000s | |
Black Box Recorder's, "The Facts of Life"
Misheard Lyrics: It's just the facts of life
Unless you multiply Original Lyrics: It's just the facts of life
There's no master plan |
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2010s | |
Bruno Mars', "Marry You"
Misheard Lyrics: It's a beautiful day, we're looking for something fun to do
Original Lyrics: It's a beautiful night, we're looking for something dumb to do
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Foster the People's, "Pumped Up Kicks"
Misheard Lyrics: All the other kids with the pumped up kids
Better run, better run, faster than my girlfriend All the other kids with the pumped up kids Better run, better run, faster than my boyfriend Original Lyrics: All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
Better run better run, Outrun my gun All the other kids with the pumped up kicks Better run better run, Faster than my bullet |
Imagine Dragons', "Radioactive"
Misheard Lyrics: Ready to rock you, ready to rock you.
Original Lyrics: Radioactive, radioactive
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Of Monsters and Men's, "Little Talk"
Misheard Lyrics: I'll see you when I wanna see you.
Original Lyrics: I'll see you when I fall asleep.
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OneRepublic's, "Counting Stars"
Misheard Lyrics: Sing to the rhythm of the dances I learned
Original Lyrics: Sink in the river the lessons I learned
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Sam Hunt's, "Body Like a Back Road"
Misheard Lyrics: 15 and a third
Original Lyrics: Doin' 15 in a 30
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Sia feat. Sean Paul's, "Cheap Thrills"
Misheard Lyrics: Baby I don't need your love at all to have fun tonight
Original Lyrics: Baby I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight
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Darlene Zschech's, "In Jesus' Name"
Misheard Lyrics: God is fighting for us
Pushing back vaginas. Original Lyrics: God is fighting for us
Pushing back the darkness |
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Sugarland's, "Something More"
Misheard Lyrics: An armadillo could be knocking at my door.
Original Lyrics: Armageddon could be knocking at my door.
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Commercial's, "Chicken of the Sea"
Misheard Lyrics: Ask any Mormon you happen to see
Original Lyrics: Ask any mermaid you happen to see
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