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1960s | |
B.J. Thomas', "Hooked on a Feeling"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm booked on my freedom
Original Lyrics: I'm hooked on a feeling
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Donovan's, "Catch The Wind"
Misheard Lyrics: Abbott and me, yes we’re trying to catch the wind
Original Lyrics: Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.
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Led Zeppelin's, "D'yer Maker"
Misheard Lyrics: Di' jer make 'er?
Original Lyrics: D'yer Maker (title)
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Lulu's, "I'm A Tiger"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm a tight girl, I'm a tight girl
Original Lyrics: I'm a tiger
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Lulu's, "To Sir, With Love"
Misheard Lyrics: If you wanted the sky
I would write across the sky in letters That were so thousand feet high 'To Sir With Love' Original Lyrics: If you wanted the sky
I would write across the sky in letters That would soar a thousand feet high 'To Sir, With Love' |
The Beach Boys', "I Get Around"
Misheard Lyrics: Round round, get around,
Hoggin' around Original Lyrics: Round round, get around,
I get around |
1970s | |
Abba's, "Waterloo"
Misheard Lyrics: None of my babies can be with you.
Original Lyrics: Knowing my fate is to be with you.
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Aerosmith's, "Dream On"
Misheard Lyrics: Sing for the left, and sing for the tears
Original Lyrics: Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears
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David Bowie's, "Life On Mars"
Misheard Lyrics: Lenin's on sale again
Original Lyrics: Lennon's on sale again.
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Elton John's, "Bennie and the Jets"
Misheard Lyrics: She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I'd rather have a bag of sardines
Original Lyrics: She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine
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Elton John's, "Crocodile Rock"
Misheard Lyrics: Crocodile rocket, I saw my chocolate
Original Lyrics: Crocodile rocking was something shocking
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James Taylor's, "Shower the People"
Misheard Lyrics: Saturday people
Original Lyrics: Shower the People
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Jethro Tull's, "Bungle in the Jungle"
Misheard Lyrics: Is it so fright me to have me at your shoulder?
Thunder and lightning couldn't be bolder All right from your tombstone and thank you for dinner There's game that Rhiannon play is a winner Original Lyrics: Is it so frightening to have me at your shoulder?
Thunder and lightning couldn't be bolder I'll write on your tombstone, I thank you for dinner This game that we animals play is a winner |
John Lennon's, "Instant Karma!"
Misheard Lyrics: Istanbul is gonna get you
Original Lyrics: Instant karma is gonna get you
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Kraftwerk's, "Autobahn"
Misheard Lyrics: It's fun, fun, fun on a hot-dog bun.
Original Lyrics: Wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der Autobahn.
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Queen's, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Misheard Lyrics: If I'm not black again this time tomorrow
Original Lyrics: If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
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Simon & Garfunkel's, "Cecilia"
Misheard Lyrics: Jew relations, she loves me again
Original Lyrics: Jubilations, she loves me again
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The Partridge Family's, "Come On Get Happy"
Misheard Lyrics: We'll make you coffee
Original Lyrics: We'll make you happy
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The Sandpipers', "Guantanamera"
Misheard Lyrics: One kind of meadow. Juanita, one kind of meadow.
Original Lyrics: Guantanamera
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The Stranglers', "Toiler On The Sea"
Misheard Lyrics: I went to toilet on the seat
Original Lyrics: I was a toiler on the sea.
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1980s | |
Diana Ross', "Missing You"
Misheard Lyrics: Since you've been awake
Original Lyrics: Since you've been away
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Fleetwood Mac's, "Hold Me"
Misheard Lyrics: I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be me
Original Lyrics: Hold me, hold me, hold me
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Jody Watley's, "Some Kind of Lover"
Misheard Lyrics: You're sometimes a mother
Original Lyrics: You're some kind of lover
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Phil Collins', "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"
Misheard Lyrics: Just a man without a face
Original Lyrics: Just the memory of your face
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1990s | |
Backstreet Boys', "Hey. Mr. DJ"
Misheard Lyrics: Out on the floor in my arms,
She's gotta be. Let's get it on, Channel my love. Original Lyrics: Out on the floor in my arms,
She's gotta be. Let's get it on, Jam all night long |
Chantal Kreviazuk's, "Leaving On A Jet Plane"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm leaving herbatatulay
Original Lyrics: I'm leaving on a jet plane
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Donald Fagen's, "Countermoon"
Misheard Lyrics: On a night like this
The story gets told That the women get restless And the men propose Original Lyrics: On a night like this
The story is told How the women get restless And the men grow cold |
King Missile's, "Detachable Penis"
Misheard Lyrics: The touch of a penis
Original Lyrics: Detachable penis
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Lighthouse Family's, "Lifted"
Misheard Lyrics: We could be Lipton
Original Lyrics: We could be lifted
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Manic Street Preachers.'s, "Nobody Loved You"
Misheard Lyrics: Did you have a f***ing thought?
Original Lyrics: Did you ever forgive her?
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Manic Street Preachers', "Motorcycle Emptiness"
Misheard Lyrics: Life like a slow suicide
All the ducks scream of symbolic myths Original Lyrics: Life lies a slow suicide Orthodox dreams and symbolic myths.
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Manic Street Preachers', "So Dead"
Misheard Lyrics: See big dumb face, I love my life!
Original Lyrics: I've seen your dumb face all of my life
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Tesla's, "Love Song"
Misheard Lyrics: Time is sure to mend your broken car
Original Lyrics: Time is sure to mend your broken heart
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The KLF's, "Last Train To Trancentral"
Misheard Lyrics: Also known as The Justified Ancients of Moo Moo
Original Lyrics: Also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu
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Toni Toni Tone's, "Feels Good"
Misheard Lyrics: Everything's good
Original Lyrics: It feels good
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Wyclef Jean's, "Gone Till November"
Misheard Lyrics: Some guy named Amos
Original Lyrics: Some guy nameless
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2000s | |
Darkmateria's, "The Picard Song"
Misheard Lyrics: I am the cutest of Borg.
Original Lyrics: I am Locutus of Borg.
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Five for Fighting's, "100 Years"
Misheard Lyrics: Making our way back from the mall
Original Lyrics: Making our way back from Mars
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Green Day's, "Warning"
Misheard Lyrics: Lay in bed, your ability to operate the sh*ttery
Original Lyrics: May impair, your ability to operate machinery
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Louise's, "Beautiful Inside"
Misheard Lyrics: It doesn't matter about the color of Yeltsin
Original Lyrics: It doesn't matter about the color of your skin
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Manic Street Preachers', "So Why So Sad"
Misheard Lyrics: Searching, oh, the dance is yours.
Original Lyrics: Searching for the Dead Sea Scrolls
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2010s | |
Amon Amarth's, "Raise Your Horns"
Misheard Lyrics: Stormy seas
Rolling thunder, pissing hail Original Lyrics: Stormy seas
Rolling thunder, piercing hail |
Ed Sheeran's, "Shape of You"
Misheard Lyrics: And now my bedsheets smell like Pooh
or And now my bedsheets smell like goo Original Lyrics: And now my bedsheets smell like you
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