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1960s | |
Aretha Franklin's, "Respect"
Misheard Lyrics: Really, really, really, really
Original Lyrics: Re-re-re-re
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Bob Dylan's, "Stuck Inside of Mobile"
Misheard Lyrics: Stuck in the side of a mobile listening to the Memphis Blues again
Original Lyrics: Stuck inside of mobile with the Memphis Blues again
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1970s | |
Average White Band's, "Pick Up the Pieces"
Misheard Lyrics: Chicken pieces
Original Lyrics: pick up the pieces
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Bob Dylan's, "Hurricane"
Misheard Lyrics: Tom Petty comes in from the upper hall
and: And Tom Petty calls the cops Original Lyrics: Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall
and: And so Patty calls the cops |
City Boy's, "Modern Love Affair"
Misheard Lyrics: Who was it that called this romance?
Original Lyrics: Oh was it cold, this romance.
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Derek and the Dominos', "Layla"
Misheard Lyrics: Trying to give you constipation
Original Lyrics: Trying to give you conversation
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Dschinghis Khan's, "Dschinghis Khan"
Misheard Lyrics: drink, drink, drink his cum
Original Lyrics: Dsching, Dsching, Dschingis Khan
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Joe Jackson's, "Is She Really Going Out with Him?"
Misheard Lyrics: Look over there (there)
Original Lyrics: Look over there (where?)
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Lynyrd Skynyrd's, "Sweet Home Alabama"
Misheard Lyrics: I miss ol' family once again and I think it's a sin
Original Lyrics: I miss ole 'bamy once again and I think it's a sin
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Lynyrd Skynyrd's, "Sweet Home Alabama"
Misheard Lyrics: I said, 'A man don't need him around anyhow.'
Original Lyrics: A southern man don't need him around anyhow
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Lynyrd Skynyrd's, "Sweet Home Alabama"
Misheard Lyrics: In Birmingham they love the Gov'nor. Fool Fool Fool!
Original Lyrics: In Birmingham they love the Gov'nor, boo-hoo-hoo
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Lynyrd Skynyrd's, "Sweet Home Alabama"
Misheard Lyrics: Now Muscle Shoals is kind o' swampless
Original Lyrics: Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers
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Rolling Stones', "Brown Sugar"
Misheard Lyrics: Brown sugar
Just like a yogurt should Original Lyrics: Brown sugar
Just like a young girl should. |
Starbuck's, "Moonlight Feels Right"
Misheard Lyrics: You say you came to Baltimore from Memphis, a class of '74 go 'way.
Original Lyrics: You say you came to Baltimore from Ole Miss
A class of '74 gold ring |
The Bee Gees', "You Should Be Dancing"
Misheard Lyrics: Whatcha doing in your bed, aah?
Original Lyrics: What you doin' on your back, aah?
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Todd Rundgren's, "I Saw the Light"
Misheard Lyrics: Then you gave up at me
Original Lyrics: Then you gazed up at me
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Wings', "Helen Wheels"
Misheard Lyrics: Hello! Hello! Yellow Wheels!
Original Lyrics: Helen, Hell on wheels
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1980s | |
Bananarama's, "Cruel Summer"
Misheard Lyrics: It's the truth, Rosanna.
Leaving me here on my own. It's the truth, Rosanna. Original Lyrics: It's a cruel (cruel), cruel summer
Leaving me here on my own It's a cruel (It's a cruel), cruel summer Now you're gone |
Chris deBurgh's, "The Lady in Red"
Misheard Lyrics: the lady in bed
Original Lyrics: the lady in red
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Culture Club's, "Karma Chameleon"
Misheard Lyrics: Love is so feezy so color so like my dreams,
Ray golden dreams, ray golden dreams Original Lyrics: Loving would be easy if your colors were like my dreams
Red, gold, and green. Red, gold, and green |
Cyndi Lauper's, "True Colours"
Misheard Lyrics: Are beautiful like Ray Moore
Original Lyrics: Are beautiful like a rainbow
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Glenn Frey's, "You Belong to the City"
Misheard Lyrics: You were born in the city, country under your feet.
Original Lyrics: You were born in the city, concrete under your feet.
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Juice Newton's, "Queen of Hearts"
Misheard Lyrics: Laying out another line
Original Lyrics: Layin' out another lie
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Phil Collins', "If Leaving Me Is Easy"
Misheard Lyrics: And though it's past nine
Original Lyrics: And though it's past now
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Phil Collins', "Two Hearts"
Misheard Lyrics: Feeding together 'til the end of time
Original Lyrics: Being together 'til the end of time
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Phil Collins', "Two Hearts"
Misheard Lyrics: You know that Tupac's living in just one nine
Being together 'til the end of time Original Lyrics: You know that two hearts are living in just one mind
Beating together 'til the end of time |
Prince's, "1999"
Misheard Lyrics: I was thinking when I broke this
Original Lyrics: I was dreaming when I wrote this
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Prince's, "1999"
Misheard Lyrics: So tonight I'm won't depart like it's 1999
Original Lyrics: So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999
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Prince's, "When Doves Cry"
Misheard Lyrics: This is what it sounds like in a Dove bar
Original Lyrics: This is what it sounds like when doves cry
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Queen's, "The Miracle"
Misheard Lyrics: It's America, we're having America on earth
Original Lyrics: It's a miracle, we're having a miracle on earth
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Ratt's, "Round and Round"
Misheard Lyrics: Tugging barbells, abused ourselves
Original Lyrics: Tightened our belts, abuse ourselves
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Sting's, "Fortress Around Your Heart"
Misheard Lyrics: And let me build a bridge,
For I cannot build a castle Let me set the mat on this one - ah Original Lyrics: Then let me build a bridge,
For I cannot fill the chasm, And let me set the battlements on fire. |
Toto's, "Africa"
Misheard Lyrics: I lost my brains down in Africa
Original Lyrics: I bless the rains down in Africa.
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1990s | |
Mariah Carey's, "Slipping Away"
Misheard Lyrics: It's all a bitch-er-ade
Original Lyrics: It's all a big charade
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Merril Bainbridge's, "Mouth"
Misheard Lyrics: Would it be my fortify?
Original Lyrics: Would it be my fault if I...
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R.E.M.'s, "Losing My Religion"
Misheard Lyrics: Like a herd, lost and blindfold
Original Lyrics: Like a hurt, lost, and blinded fool.
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The Lion King's, "Circle of Life"
Misheard Lyrics: AAAAAAAAH SAVANA QUALQUS BEAVA
Original Lyrics: Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba Sithi uhm ingonyama
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2000s | |
3 Doors Down's, "Kryptonite"
Misheard Lyrics: I'll keep you by my side with my superhuman might, Strychnine
Original Lyrics: I'll keep you by my side with my superhuman might, Kryptonite
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BBMak's, "Back Here"
Misheard Lyrics: I’ll trim your back hair baby
Original Lyrics: Until you're back here baby
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Counting Crows', "Big Yellow Taxi"
Misheard Lyrics: The big yellow taxi-- he took my grill away!
Original Lyrics: And a big yellow taxi took my girl away.
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Kara's, "Rolly the Roll"
Misheard Lyrics: Quack quack, everybody quack quack
Original Lyrics: Clap clap, everybody clap clap
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Mariah Carey 's, "Circles"
Misheard Lyrics: Painting on a smile with lipstick, putting on a bitch-er-ade
Original Lyrics: Painting on a smile with lipstick, putting on a big charade
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2010s | |
Everything, Everything's, "Kemosabe"
Misheard Lyrics: I eat wasabi on the lawn
Out on the lawn Original Lyrics: Hey Kemosabe I'm alone!
Ayah! I am a! I am alone! |
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Melanie Martinez's, "Milk and Cookies"
Misheard Lyrics: Ashes, ashes, time to go to hell
Original Lyrics: Ashes, ashes, time to go down
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Muse's, "The Handler"
Misheard Lyrics: I am no longer afraid to wear cologne.
Original Lyrics: I am no longer afraid to walk alone.
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Nickelback's, "How You Remind Me"
Misheard Lyrics: And it must have been so bad
'Cause little women must have damn near killed you Original Lyrics: And it must have been so bad
'Cause living with me must have damn near killed you |
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