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1950s | |
Bobby Darin's, "Dream Lover"
Misheard Lyrics: Please don't make me sing along
Original Lyrics: Please don't make me dream along
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1960s | |
Junior Walker and the All-Stars', "Shotgun"
Misheard Lyrics: I said ShopRite
Original Lyrics: I said shotgun
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Manfred Mann's, "Mighty Quinn"
Misheard Lyrics: Come on, look out
Come on, begin Original Lyrics: Come on without
Come on within |
The Beach Boys', "409"
Misheard Lyrics: Give it up, give it up, 409
Original Lyrics: Giddyup, giddyup 409
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The Rolling Stones', "She’s a Rainbow"
Misheard Lyrics: She’s like a railroad
Original Lyrics: She’s like a rainbow
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1970s | |
Black Sabbath's, "War Pigs"
Misheard Lyrics: Treating people just like folding chairs
Original Lyrics: Treating people just like pawns in chess.
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Captain & Tennille's, "Love Will Keep Us Together"
Misheard Lyrics: Eyelid, eyelid, eyelid, eyelid
Original Lyrics: I will, I will, I will, I will
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Elton John's, "Your Song"
Misheard Lyrics: I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind
That I hooked down the words, "A wonderful life is, while you're in the word". Original Lyrics: I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind
That I put down in words How wonderful life is, while you're in the world. |
Elton John's, "Your Song"
Misheard Lyrics: I sat on the rook, and kicked off the moss perfume.
All the verses while they've got me quite crossed. Original Lyrics: I sat on the roof, and I kicked of the moss.
Well some of these verses, well they got me quite cross. |
Five Man Electrical Band's, "Signs"
Misheard Lyrics: Can't you even decide?
Original Lyrics: Can't you read the sign?
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Jim Croce's, "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
Misheard Lyrics: Fattest man in the whole downtown
Original Lyrics: Baddest man in the whole downtown
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Steely Dan's, "FM (No Static At All)"
Misheard Lyrics: Give her some funked up music
Original Lyrics: Give her some funked up Musak
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The Stylistics', "I’m Stone in Love with You"
Misheard Lyrics: I guess it’s you
Original Lyrics: I guess it’s true
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1980s | |
Echo and the Bunnymen's, "All That Jazz"
Misheard Lyrics: Hurts to look back on all that jazz
Original Lyrics: Hair slicked back and all that jazz
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Genesis', "In Too Deep"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm not getting naked
Original Lyrics: I'm not gonna make this
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Guns n' Roses', "Welcome to the Jungle"
Misheard Lyrics: Welcome to the Jamba
Original Lyrics: Welcome to the Jungle
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Men at Work's, "Be Good Johnny"
Misheard Lyrics: Nigger, nigger, nigger
Original Lyrics: Be good, be good, be good
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Sergio Mendes', "Never Gonna Let You Go"
Misheard Lyrics: This time you can’t be sure
Original Lyrics: This time you can be sure
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Stormtroopers of Death's, "Douche Crew"
Misheard Lyrics: You got the douche crew
You got the douche crew You got the douche crew F*** you Original Lyrics: You're just a douche crew
You're just a douche crew You're just a douche crew F*** you |
T'Pau's, "Heart and Soul"
Misheard Lyrics: A little bit of olive oil
Original Lyrics: A little bit of heart and soul
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Terence Trent D'Arby's, "Wishing Well"
Misheard Lyrics: The blood racist through my veins
or The blood rapist through my veins Original Lyrics: The blood races through my veins
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The Police's, "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"
Misheard Lyrics: Eeyore! Eeyore! Eeyore-ore-ore... and Pooh.
Original Lyrics: E-O! E-O! E-O-O-O-O-Ohhh.
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Thompson Twins', "The Gap"
Misheard Lyrics: We say break the line, chew the facts
And keep moving out into the gap Original Lyrics: We say break the line, and chew the fat
And keep moving out into the gap. |
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1990s | |
Amy Grant's, "Takes a Little Time"
Misheard Lyrics: Give her Kitten Chow
Original Lyrics: Give it, give it time
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Boyz II Men's, "I'll Make Love to You"
Misheard Lyrics: I'll make lunch for you, when you want me to
Original Lyrics: I'll make love to you, when you want me to
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Eurythmics', "Don't Ask Me Why"
Misheard Lyrics: We never seem to fight
Original Lyrics: We never seem to find
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Maxi Priest's, "That Girl"
Misheard Lyrics: Dad's girl
Dad's kind of girl Original Lyrics: That girl
That kind of girl |
Nine Inch Nails', "Closer"
Misheard Lyrics: I broke my heart from inside
Original Lyrics: I broke apart my insides
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Selena's, "I Could Fall in Love"
Misheard Lyrics: Life's a ball in love with you
Original Lyrics: I could fall in love with you
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The Cranberries', "Linger"
Misheard Lyrics: But I was robbed, I was robbed...
Original Lyrics: But I was wrong, I was wrong...
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The Rolling Stones', "Anybody Seen My Baby?"
Misheard Lyrics: The cheese was gone for good
Original Lyrics: That she's really gone for good
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Van Halen's, "Can't Stop Loving You"
Misheard Lyrics: And no way for what I say and do
Original Lyrics: And no matter what I say and do
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2000s | |
Dido's, "Here with Me"
Misheard Lyrics: If I change my menu
Original Lyrics: It might change my memory
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Green Day's, "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"
Misheard Lyrics: It’s something unpredictable, the Indian is right
Original Lyrics: It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right
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2010s | |
country | |
Garth Brooks', "To Make You Feel My Love"
Misheard Lyrics: I'd go hungry, I'd go back to you
Original Lyrics: I'd go hungry, I'd go black and blue
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Keith Urban's, "Somebody Like You"
Misheard Lyrics: Whether you're teaching me to be a fellow man
Original Lyrics: But you're teaching me to be a better man
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Kenny Chesney's, "Summertime"
Misheard Lyrics: But that swimming pool
Original Lyrics: But that swimming hole
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misc | |
Chromeo's, "Clorox Wipe"
Misheard Lyrics: If I could reincarnate tonight
Original Lyrics: If I could be in Ghana tonight
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Taylor Swift's, "Cardigan"
Misheard Lyrics: Village team
or Village People Original Lyrics: Vintage tee
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