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1960s | |
The Beatles', "Thank You Girl"
Misheard Lyrics: Annie Girdle Lee, I'll always be in love with you
Original Lyrics: And eternally, I'll always be in love with you
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The Lovin' Spoonful's, "Summer in the City"
Misheard Lyrics: #SummerintheCity
Original Lyrics: Hot town, summer in the city
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1970s | |
America's, "A Horse with No Name"
Misheard Lyrics: And the devils can't remember your name
Original Lyrics: In the desert, you can remember your name
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Andy Gibb's, "I Just Want to Be Your Everything"
Misheard Lyrics: Watch NBC
Original Lyrics: Watch it and see
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Bobby Caldwell's, "What You Won't Do for Love"
Misheard Lyrics: Some people turn around the world for nothing
Original Lyrics: Some people go around the world for love
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Elton John's, "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
Misheard Lyrics: I've found that this side of my future lies
Original Lyrics: Oh I've finally decided my future lies
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Elton John's, "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
Misheard Lyrics: When are you going to calm down?
When are you going to learn? Original Lyrics: When are you gonna come down?
When are you going to land? |
Five Man Electrical Band's, "Signs"
Misheard Lyrics: Hey there mister, can't you read?
You got to have a shirt and tie to get a seat You can't even watch no UKV You ain't supposed to be here Original Lyrics: Hey there mister, can't you read?
You got to have a shirt and tie to get a seat You can't even watch, no you can't eat You ain't supposed to be here |
Gloria Gaynor's, "Never Can Say Goodbye"
Misheard Lyrics: I never can see Godiva
Original Lyrics: I never can say goodbye, boy
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Harry Chapin's, "Taxi"
Misheard Lyrics: She said "Sixteen bucks I paid"
Original Lyrics: She said, "Sixteen Parkside Lane"
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Led Zeppelin's, "Rock & Roll"
Misheard Lyrics: Pooh bear, Pooh bear
Original Lyrics: Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
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Pointer Sisters', "Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: The birds are chirpin', actin' like a fool
Original Lyrics: My nerves all jumpin', actin' like a fool
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Steve Miller Band's, "Jet Airliner"
Misheard Lyrics: Big ol' panty liner
Original Lyrics: Big ol' jet airliner
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Supertramp's, "Give a Little Bit"
Misheard Lyrics: Get a little bit of your lunch, baby
Original Lyrics: Give a little bit of your love, baby
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The Who's, "We're Not Gonna Take It"
Misheard Lyrics: We're a Golden Ticket
Original Lyrics: We're not gonna take it
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1980s | |
Benny Mardones', "Into the Night"
Misheard Lyrics: And I would wait to begin
Original Lyrics: And I would wait 'til the end
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Billy Idol's, "Rebel Yell"
Misheard Lyrics: get a big gulp at the seven eleven
Original Lyrics: He lives in his own heaven
Collects it to go from the seven eleven |
Diana Ross', "Upside Down"
Misheard Lyrics: Instant brass and brown and brown
Original Lyrics: Inside out and round and round
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Don Henley's, "Dirty Laundry"
Misheard Lyrics: Kick a bully up, kick a bully down, kick a bully up, kick a bully down,
Original Lyrics: Kick em when there up, kick em when there down,
Kick em when there up, kick em when there down, |
Eurythmics', "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
Misheard Lyrics: Office clean up
Original Lyrics: Hold your head up
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Genesis', "That's All"
Misheard Lyrics: It's only a shake of salt
Original Lyrics: It's only a shame, that's all!
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Leon Redbone's, "According to Our New Arrivals (Mr Belvedere Theme)"
Misheard Lyrics: Welcome to our new arrival.
Nothin' here but real survival. And you might just live with it like it. Original Lyrics: According to our new arrival.
Life is more than mere survival. And we just might live the good life yet. |
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Lionel Richie's, "Dancing On the Ceiling"
Misheard Lyrics: Danson in the Sebring
Original Lyrics: Dancing on the ceiling
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Madonna's, "Open Your Heart"
Misheard Lyrics: Hoping you'll come to me
Original Lyrics: Open your heart to me
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Michael Jackson's, "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
Misheard Lyrics: I'ma say one more time I'm not goin' stop
Original Lyrics: Ma-ma se, ma-ma sa, ma-ma coo sa.
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Michael Jackson's, "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
Misheard Lyrics: Imma say it one more time I'm not gon stop
Original Lyrics: Ma-ma se, ma-ma sa, ma-ma coo sa.
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Movie Scripts', "The Jazz Singer"
Misheard Lyrics: Defense you're mad!
Original Lyrics: He thinks you're mad!
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Prince's, "Kiss"
Misheard Lyrics: You don't have to be a witch
Original Lyrics: You don't have to be rich
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Starship's, "We Built This City"
Misheard Lyrics: But at least we got the joker
Original Lyrics: But at least we got the chokehold
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1990s | |
Beck's, "Loser"
Misheard Lyrics: I'ma lose your baby, so why don't you kill me?
Original Lyrics: I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
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Commercial's, "Circuit City"
Misheard Lyrics: Circus City
Where circus is state-of-the-art Original Lyrics: Circuit City
Where service is state-of-the-art |
Daler Mehndi's, "Tunak Tunak Tun"
Misheard Lyrics: Duke duke, da duke duke, da duke duke, Duke da-da-da
Original Lyrics: Tunak Tunak Tun
Tunak Tunak Tun Tunak Tunak Tun Da Da Da |
Divinyls', "I Touch Myself"
Misheard Lyrics: When I think about you, I trust myself
Original Lyrics: When I think about you, I touch myself
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Happy Schnapps Combo's, "Blatz and Sauerkraut"
Misheard Lyrics: We went to Archer's picnic
Original Lyrics: We went to our church picnic
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Leon Redbone's, "All detergent"
Misheard Lyrics: The Spain lifter, that's all!
Original Lyrics: The stain lifter, that's all!
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Movie Scripts', "Toy Story"
Misheard Lyrics: To insanity...and beyond!
Original Lyrics: To infinity...and beyond!
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Oasis', "Live Forever"
Misheard Lyrics: Maybe I don't really wanna know
How you're grinding girls Original Lyrics: Maybe I don't really wanna know
How your garden grows |
Savage Garden's, "I Want You"
Misheard Lyrics: Like a ditsy diver
Original Lyrics: Like a deep sea diver
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Smash Mouth's, "All Star"
Misheard Lyrics: Somebody once told me the world was gonna rule me,
I ate the sharpest tool in the s*** Original Lyrics: Somebody once told me the world was gonna roll me,
I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed |
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2000s | |
Celine Dion's, "That's the Way It Is"
Misheard Lyrics: And your heart's healthy now
Original Lyrics: And your heart's left in doubt
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Chad Kroeger featuring Josey Scott's, "Hero"
Misheard Lyrics: Now that there's one happy ending
Original Lyrics: Now that the world isn't ending
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Skye Sweetnam's, "Tangled Up in Me"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm the girl who's kicking the coat machine
Original Lyrics: I'm the girl who's kicking the Coke machine
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The Cranberries', "Dreams"
Misheard Lyrics: Oh my, my, it's changing every day
Original Lyrics: Oh my, life is changing is every day
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The Cranberries', "Dreams"
Misheard Lyrics: Possible not to dig
Original Lyrics: Impossible not to do
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Weird Al Yankovic's, "A Complicated Song"
Misheard Lyrics: Like string cheese
Original Lyrics: Extra cheese
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2010s | |
Adele's, "Rolling in the Deep"
Misheard Lyrics: Trees are gonna fall
Original Lyrics: Tears are gonna fall
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country | |
Shania Twain's, "You're Still the One"
Misheard Lyrics: My mother took the wrong way
Original Lyrics: We might have took the long way
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