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Misheard Lyrics -> New Entries for December 19, 2019
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1950s | |
Frankie Laine's, "Rawhide"
Misheard Lyrics: My shoebox was belated
Original Lyrics: My true love will be waitin'
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1960s | |
Strawberry Alarm Clock's, "Incense and Peppermints"
Misheard Lyrics: Who cares if we play Blue's Clues?
Original Lyrics: Who cares what games we choose?
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1970s | |
Creedence Clearwater Revival's, "Up Around the Bend"
Misheard Lyrics: We're going all around again
Original Lyrics: We're going up around the bend
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Eric Clapton's, "I Shot the Sheriff"
Misheard Lyrics: Lamb Chop and Shari
Original Lyrics: I shot the sheriff
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The Sweet's, "Action"
Misheard Lyrics: Everybody wants Subplease-ly Action
Original Lyrics: Everybody wants a piece of the action
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1980s | |
Blondie's, "The Tide Is High"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm not the pomegranate
Original Lyrics: I'm not the kind of girl
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Duran Duran's, "Careless Memories"
Misheard Lyrics: With a ghost of Marie
Original Lyrics: With a careless memory
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Roxette's, "Listen to Your Heart"
Misheard Lyrics: A little piece of power
Original Lyrics: Your little piece of heaven
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Scorpions', "The Zoo"
Misheard Lyrics: Sweet street corner Sue
Original Lyrics: Streets we call The Zoo.
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Til Tuesday's, "Voices Carry"
Misheard Lyrics: Hush Charles, keep it down now, this is scary
Original Lyrics: Hush, hush, keep it down now, voices carry.
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1990s | |
Billy Joel's, "The River of Dreams"
Misheard Lyrics: I've been searching and searching
Original Lyrics: I've been searching for something
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Cast of Barney & Friends', "I Love You"
Misheard Lyrics: We're best fans as fans should be
Original Lyrics: We're best friends as friends should be
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Christina Aguilera's, "Genie in a Bottle"
Misheard Lyrics: Baby, there's no time to play
Original Lyrics: Baby, there's a price to pay
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Nirvana's, "Lithium"
Misheard Lyrics: No more candles
In my days, 'cause I've found God. Original Lyrics: Light my candles
In a daze, 'cause I've found God. |
Rod Stewart's, "Rhythm of My Heart"
Misheard Lyrics: With the ocean in the sky
Original Lyrics: Where the ocean meets the sky
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Semisonic's, "Closing Time"
Misheard Lyrics: Every new beginning comes from summer, fall and winter's end
Original Lyrics: Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end
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The Offspring's, "All I Want"
Misheard Lyrics: Back off your chocolates
Original Lyrics: Back off your jive
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2000s | |
Hinder's, "Lips of an Angel"
Misheard Lyrics: The lips up an agent
Original Lyrics: The lips of an angel
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Owl City's, "Fireflies"
Misheard Lyrics: cousine feel like such a insane cat
Original Lyrics: 'Cause I feel like such an insomniac
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S Club 7's, "Never Had a Dream Come True"
Misheard Lyrics: Because love is a string of funny things
Original Lyrics: Because love is a strange and funny thing
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Slipknot's, "Duality"
Misheard Lyrics: Olive Garden's insane!
Original Lyrics: All I've got is insane!
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The Killers', "Mr. Brightside"
Misheard Lyrics: Destination calling me
Original Lyrics: Destiny is calling me
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The Killers', "Mr. Brightside"
Misheard Lyrics: Open up my pecan pie
Original Lyrics: Open up my eager eye
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The National's, "Racing Like a Pro"
Misheard Lyrics: Your mind is racing like a pronoun
Original Lyrics: Your mind is racing like a pro now
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2010s | |
Anna Kendrick's, "Cups (When I'm Gone)"
Misheard Lyrics: You're gonna miss me when I cum
Original Lyrics: You're gonna miss me when I'm gone
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Commercial's, "State Farm"
Misheard Lyrics: Somebody burned down my shoe shed
Original Lyrics: Somebody burned down my she shed
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Gwen Stefani's, "Hollaback Girl"
Misheard Lyrics: I ain't no rollerblade girl
Original Lyrics: I ain't no hollaback girl
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misc | |
Traditional's, "Auld Lang Syne"
Misheard Lyrics: We'll take the cupboard kind of sh*t
For auld lang syne Original Lyrics: We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne. |
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xmas | |
Bing Crosby's, "Faith of Our Fathers"
Misheard Lyrics: In spite of dump truck
Original Lyrics: In spite of dungeon
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Boney M's, "Mary's Boy Child"
Misheard Lyrics: And man will live forever more
Original Lyrics: And man will live for evermore
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Bruce Cockburn's, "Mary Had a Baby"
Misheard Lyrics: The people kept coming but the train gone down
Original Lyrics: The people keep coming but the train has gone
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Carrie Underwood's, "How Great Thou Art"
Misheard Lyrics: Come sitter all
Original Lyrics: Consider all
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Carrie Underwood's, "How Great Thou Art"
Misheard Lyrics: I hear the roman thunder
Original Lyrics: I hear the rolling thunder
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Christina Aguilera's, "Christmas Time"
Misheard Lyrics: So that is low
or So that is no or So that is slow Original Lyrics: So let it snow
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Ella Fitzgerald's, "Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney"
Misheard Lyrics: Santa Claus got stuck in my Chevy
Original Lyrics: Santa Claus got stuck in my chimney
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Gwen Stefani's, "My Gift is You"
Misheard Lyrics: Don't need to think
Original Lyrics: Don't need a thing
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Kenny Rogers and Wynonna Judd's, "Mary, Did You Know"
Misheard Lyrics: That you're Baby Bop
Original Lyrics: That your baby boy
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Shawn Colvin's, "Rocking"
Misheard Lyrics: We will lend a coat of hers
Original Lyrics: We will lend a coat of fur
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The Tenors', "When We Are Together"
Misheard Lyrics: When I'm in the Comfort Inn
Original Lyrics: When I'm in your company
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Traditional's, "Angels We Have Heard On High"
Misheard Lyrics: Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o'er the plains And the Mount Airy Lodge Echoing their joyous strains. Original Lyrics: Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o'er the plains And the mountains in reply Echoing their joyous strains. |
Traditional's, "The Holly and the Ivy"
Misheard Lyrics: The Holland bears and clowns
Original Lyrics: The holly bears the crown
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Wham!'s, "Last Christmas"
Misheard Lyrics: Bayside lover with a fire in his heart
A man full of colors, but you tore me apart Original Lyrics: A face on a lover with a fire in his heart
A man undercover, but you tore me apart |
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