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1960s | |
Cast of Mary Poppins', "A Spoonful of Sugar"
Misheard Lyrics: A spoonful of sugar helps that penicillin go down
Original Lyrics: A spoonful of sugar helps that medicine go down
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Cast of Mary Poppins', "Let's Go Fly a Kite"
Misheard Lyrics: Let's go ride a bike
Original Lyrics: Let's go fly a kite
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Cast of the Sound of Music's, "Climb Every Mountain"
Misheard Lyrics: From every mountain
Original Lyrics: Climb every mountain
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Cast of the Sound of Music's, "My Favorite Things"
Misheard Lyrics: Washington, D.C.
Original Lyrics: When the bee stings
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Cast of the Sound of Music's, "The Lonely Goatherd"
Misheard Lyrics: Men with a beard
Original Lyrics: Men drinking beer
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The Archies', "Sugar, Sugar"
Misheard Lyrics: And you got me wanting two
Original Lyrics: And you got me wanting you
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The Rolling Stones', "Paint it Black"
Misheard Lyrics: Like a nude boy, baby
Original Lyrics: Like a newborn baby
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1970s | |
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's, "Our House"
Misheard Lyrics: While you put the flowers in the car
Original Lyrics: While you place the flowers in the vase
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Jackson 5's, "It's Your Thing"
Misheard Lyrics: Who's the soccer tomb?
Original Lyrics: Who to sock it to
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Little River Band's, "Happy Anniversary"
Misheard Lyrics: Lord it's no French fry
Original Lyrics: Lord it's no surprise
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1980s | |
'Til Tuesday's, "Voices Carry"
Misheard Lyrics: Oh oh, deep in down down, this is scary.
Original Lyrics: Hush hush, keep it down now, voices carry.
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Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: Rosh Hashanah, channel 8
Original Lyrics: Red China, Johnnie Ray
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Eurythmics', "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
Misheard Lyrics: Sweet dreams are made of these
Original Lyrics: Sweet dreams are made of this.
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Fine Young Cannibals', "Good Thing"
Misheard Lyrics: Pooh bear, where have you gone?
Original Lyrics: Good thing, where have you gone?
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Fine Young Cannibals', "She Drives Me Crazy"
Misheard Lyrics: She drives me crazy, and no one cares
Original Lyrics: She drives me crazy like no one else
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Fleetwood Mac's, "Hold Me"
Misheard Lyrics: Halloween, Halloween, Halloween
Original Lyrics: Hold me, hold me, hold me
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Madness', "Our House"
Misheard Lyrics: Harbor Freight has Sunday deals
Original Lyrics: Father wears his Sunday best
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Madness', "Our House"
Misheard Lyrics: Harbor Freight is Sunday best
Original Lyrics: Father wears his Sunday best
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Madonna's, "Into the Groove"
Misheard Lyrics: Get into the Pooh
Original Lyrics: Get into the groove
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Minutemen's, "Corona"
Misheard Lyrics: The people will survive
Invented by a man Original Lyrics: The people will survive
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Rod Stewart's, "Forever Young"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm right behind you and the news
Original Lyrics: I'm right behind you win or lose
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Singers & Players', "African Blood"
Misheard Lyrics: African blood s*** on you
Original Lyrics: African blood shed on you
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Squeeze's, "Cool for Cats"
Misheard Lyrics: He wakes to find the fire's dead and arrows in his ass
Original Lyrics: He wakes to find the fire's dead and arrows in his hat
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Talk Talk's, "Talk Talk"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm tired of listening to you telling a lie
Original Lyrics: I'm tired of listening to you talking in rhymes
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Wang Chung's, "Everybody Have Fun Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics: It's been a little while
Original Lyrics: I've drove a million miles
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1990s | |
Backstreet Boys', "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)"
Misheard Lyrics: Sometimes I wish I could turn back time
Impossible as it may seem But I wish I could, so there, baby Original Lyrics: Sometimes I wish I could turn back time
Impossible as it may seem But I wish I could so bad, baby |
Backstreet Boys', "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)"
Misheard Lyrics: This is my right, let's stop this tonight
Original Lyrics: This is not right, let's stop this tonight
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Genesis', "Jesus He Knows Me"
Misheard Lyrics: I've been to Chuck E. Cheese's all my life
Original Lyrics: I've been talking to Jesus all my life
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Gloria Estefan's, "Everlasting Love"
Misheard Lyrics: Hearts go to string
Original Lyrics: Hearts go astray
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Gloria Estefan's, "Everlasting Love"
Misheard Lyrics: Like the summer shine
Endless summer shine Original Lyrics: Like the sun that shines
Endlessly it shines |
Human Resource's, "Dominator"
Misheard Lyrics: Wanna sh*t myself
Original Lyrics: Wanna kiss myself
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Janet Jackson's, "Escapade"
Misheard Lyrics: Let me take you down to Mexico
Original Lyrics: Let me take you on an escapade
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Mariah Carey's, "Dreamlover"
Misheard Lyrics: Why don't you take me, ole!
Original Lyrics: Why don't you take me away?
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Natalie Merchant's, "Carnival"
Misheard Lyrics: Have I been a monster?
Original Lyrics: Have I been lost?
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Pato Banton's, "Baby Come Back"
Misheard Lyrics: She and the man will remove our love
Original Lyrics: She and the man with the removal van
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2000s | |
Amos Lee's, "Sweet Pea"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm like a rock that kills rodents
Original Lyrics: I'm like the Rock of Gibraltar
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Dr. Dre's, "The Watcher"
Misheard Lyrics: Things just ain’t the same for gangstas, times is changin, young niggas is Asian.
Original Lyrics: Things just ain’t the same for gangstas, times is changin, young niggas is agin’.
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Gwen Stefani's, "Wind it Up"
Misheard Lyrics: Kitty, kitty girl
Original Lyrics: Get it, get it, girl
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Stereophonics', "Handbags And Gladrags"
Misheard Lyrics: 420 blackbirds in a cage and bake them all in a pie
Original Lyrics: Four and twenty blackbirds in a cake and bake them all in a pie
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Stereophonics', "Handbags and Gladrags"
Misheard Lyrics: Drink a bottle full of rice
Original Lyrics: Drink a bottle full of rye
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2010s | |
Weezer's, "Africa"
Misheard Lyrics: There's nothing that a hundred men are out of orange juice
Original Lyrics: There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
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country | |
Keith Urban's, "You'll Think of Me"
Misheard Lyrics: In this nice weather
Original Lyrics: And leave my sweater
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Keith Whitley's, "It Ain't Nothin'"
Misheard Lyrics: It ain't nothin' but a stretch
Original Lyrics: It ain't nothin' but a scratch
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