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1950s | |
Buddy Holly and the Crickets', "It's So Easy"
Misheard Lyrics: So goddamn easy
Original Lyrics: So doggone easy
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Elvis Presley's, "Don't Be Cruel"
Misheard Lyrics: Let's walk up to the creature
Original Lyrics: Let's walk up to the preacher
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1960s | |
Del Shannon's, "Runaway"
Misheard Lyrics: Wawa, Wawa runaway
Original Lyrics: I won-won-won-won-wonder why
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Frank Sinatra's, "You Make Me Feel So Young"
Misheard Lyrics: You make this feel so long
Original Lyrics: You make me feel so young
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The Four Seasons', "Big Girls Don't Cry"
Misheard Lyrics: (They don't try)
Original Lyrics: (They don't cry)
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The Gentrys', "Keep On Dancing"
Misheard Lyrics: She's just about pregnant
Original Lyrics: Dancin' and a prancing
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The Guess Who's, "These Eyes"
Misheard Lyrics: Design a peanut butter bitta beeta boota butta batta mitt shoes
Original Lyrics: These eyes have seen a lot of loves
But they're never gonna see another one like I had with you |
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1970s | |
Billy Joel's, "The Stranger"
Misheard Lyrics: There are some we never touch
Original Lyrics: There are some we never tell
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Bread's, "Diary"
Misheard Lyrics: I found her Diaperene underneath the tree
Original Lyrics: I found her diary underneath the tree
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Chicago's, "Baby, What a Big Surprise"
Misheard Lyrics: Help me find L.A.
Original Lyrics: Help me find my way
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Foreigner's, "Head Games"
Misheard Lyrics: These gay dreams, they keep haunting me, are they wanting me
Original Lyrics: These daydreams, they keep haunting me, are they warning me
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Iggy Pop's, "Lust For Life"
Misheard Lyrics: Let's dance like hypnotized chickens.
Original Lyrics: Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens.
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Led Zeppelin's, "Black Dog"
Misheard Lyrics: Pin-headed woman ain't got no soul.
Original Lyrics: A big legged woman ain't got no soul.
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Queen's, "We Are the Champions"
Misheard Lyrics: We are the chariots, my friends
Original Lyrics: We are the champions, my friends
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Sammy Davis Jr.'s, "Plop Plop Fizz Fizz"
Misheard Lyrics: Swallowed a blast
Original Lyrics: Wow, what a blast
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The Babys', "Isn’t it Time"
Misheard Lyrics: I think I should die
Original Lyrics: I think I should cry
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The O’Jays', "Use Ta Be My Girl"
Misheard Lyrics: Ask me how I love
Original Lyrics: Ask me who I know
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1980s | |
Bruce Springsteen's, "One Step Up"
Misheard Lyrics: Checked the furniture
Original Lyrics: Checked the furnace
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Chicago's, "Love Me Tomorrow"
Misheard Lyrics: Love me tomorrow, turtle back
Original Lyrics: Love me tomorrow, hurry back
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Corey Hart's, "Sunglasses at Night"
Misheard Lyrics: It cuts my security hat. Cheese got control of me.
Original Lyrics: It cuts my security. Has she got control of me?
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Howard Jones', "Things Can Only Get Better"
Misheard Lyrics: But I won't stop at 40
Original Lyrics: But I won't stop and falter
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Howard Jones', "What is Love?"
Misheard Lyrics: What should I buy?
Original Lyrics: Why should I mind?
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Phil Collins', "You Can't Hurry Love"
Misheard Lyrics: How many hotties?
Original Lyrics: How many heartaches?
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Phil Collins', "You Can't Hurry Love"
Misheard Lyrics: How much more must I pay?
Original Lyrics: How much more must I take?
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Talking Heads', "Once in a Lifetime"
Misheard Lyrics: As the days go by
or Any days go by or And the days go by Original Lyrics: Letting the days go by
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The Cure's, "Charlotte Sometimes"
Misheard Lyrics: Come to be scared, possessed
Original Lyrics: Come to me, scared princess
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Tracy Chapman's, "Talkin' Bout a Revolution"
Misheard Lyrics: Don't let go
Original Lyrics: Don't you know?
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1990s | |
Betty Boo's, "Let Me Take You There"
Misheard Lyrics: Faith in the sea and faith in the sunshine
Original Lyrics: Bathe in the sea and bathe in the sunshine
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Fiona Apple's, "Criminal"
Misheard Lyrics: 'cause I'm feeling like a radio
Original Lyrics: 'cause I'm feeling like a criminal
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Sheryl Crow's, "All I Wanna Do"
Misheard Lyrics: Until the sun comes up although Santa made a couple of farts
Original Lyrics: Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard
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Spice Girls', "Move Over"
Misheard Lyrics: We're still in the seat
Original Lyrics: We're sowing the seed
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The Verve's, "The Drugs Don't Work"
Misheard Lyrics: You leave my life, I'm better off then
Original Lyrics: You leave my life, I'm better off dead
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2000s | |
Celine Dion's, "God Bless America"
Misheard Lyrics: To the orchards like before
Original Lyrics: To the oceans white with foam
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Killswitch Engage's, "This Fire Burns"
Misheard Lyrics: Two morons in my a** hole!
Original Lyrics: Tomorrow's in my eyes, oh!
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Miranda Cosgrove's, "About You Now"
Misheard Lyrics: Shut up being strong, yeah, I lied
Original Lyrics: Should've been strong, yeah, I lied
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Pendulum's, "Visions"
Misheard Lyrics: Just leave this place, put the world to rights
Original Lyrics: Just leave this place, come towards the light
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September's, "Cry for You"
Misheard Lyrics: So no one's gonna cry for you
Original Lyrics: So now who's gonna cry for you
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TV Show Scripts', "The Inbetweeners (UK)"
Misheard Lyrics: The jammy kid's only gone and pulled an experienced c**k-handler!
Original Lyrics: The jammy git's only gone and pulled an experienced c**k-handler!
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country | |
Alan Jackson's, "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm not a real illiterate man
Original Lyrics: I'm not a real political man
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Faith Hill's, "Let Me Let Go"
Misheard Lyrics: I've been 2,000 miles down an L.A. road
Original Lyrics: I've been 2,000 miles down a dead end road
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Faith Hill's, "The Way You Love Me"
Misheard Lyrics: Feel with you all around me
Original Lyrics: Feel with your arms around me
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Lee Greenwood's, "God Bless the USA"
Misheard Lyrics: And offend her still today
Original Lyrics: And defend her still today
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Lonestar's, "I'm Already There"
Misheard Lyrics: I'll be your friend
Original Lyrics: I'm in your prayers
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misc | |
The Happy Fits', "Hold Me Down"
Misheard Lyrics: I never cared for fancy eyes
Original Lyrics: I never cared for fancy art
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