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1950s | |
Julie Andrews', "Do-Re-Mi"
Misheard Lyrics: I hear a female deer
Original Lyrics: a deer, a female deer
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Nat King Cole's, "Mona Lisa"
Misheard Lyrics: Are you warm, are you rill, Mona Lisa.
Original Lyrics: Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa
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1960s | |
Cast of the Sound of Music's, "Do Re Mi"
Misheard Lyrics: Fa - a wrong, wrong way to go
Original Lyrics: Fa - a long, long way to run
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Cast of the Sound of Music's, "Sixteen Going on Seventeen"
Misheard Lyrics: You need someone bolder and whiter
Original Lyrics: You need someone older and wiser
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Cast of the Sound of Music's, "So Long, Farewell"
Misheard Lyrics: I do, I do
Original Lyrics: Adieu, adieu
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The Moody Blues', "Go Now"
Misheard Lyrics: Gonads, gonads
Gonads Original Lyrics: Go now, go now
Go now |
1970s | |
David Essex's, "Oh What a Circus"
Misheard Lyrics: Salve regina mater and Sidney Poitier
Original Lyrics: Salve regina mater misericordiae
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Dire Straits', "Sultans of Swing"
Misheard Lyrics: Check out ghetto George
He knows hardcore Original Lyrics: Check out guitar George
He knows all the chords |
Elton John's, "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
Misheard Lyrics: When are you gonna come down?
When are you going to learn? I should have stayed on the farm I should have listened to my oh my AND Moms' girls who ain't got a penny Sniffin' for tidbits like you On the ground, ah, ah Original Lyrics: When are you gonna come down?
When are you going to land? I should have stayed on the farm I should have listened to my old man AND Mongrels who ain't got a penny Sniffing for tidbits like you On the ground, ah, ah |
Led Zeppelin's, "Stairway to Heaven"
Misheard Lyrics: If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be a law man
It's just a sprinkling for the pastry Original Lyrics: If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed, now
It's just a spring clean for the May queen |
Linda Ronstadt's, "When Will I Be Loved"
Misheard Lyrics: I've been dreaming
Original Lyrics: I've been cheated
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Slade's, "Cum On Feel the Noize"
Misheard Lyrics: I mean don't worry
Original Lyrics: I'm in no hurry
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Slade's, "Cum On Feel the Noize"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm mean don't worry
Original Lyrics: I'm in no hurry
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Slade's, "Mama Weer All Crazee Now"
Misheard Lyrics: A you tease me and all my ladies deserve me
Original Lyrics: A you tease me and all my ladies desert me
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Stevie Wonder's, "Sir Duke"
Misheard Lyrics: You can finish our love
Original Lyrics: You can feel it all over
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The Jam's, "Eton Rifles"
Misheard Lyrics: What chance have you got against a Tirana crest?
or What chance have you got against a tiara crest? Original Lyrics: What chance have you got against a tie and a crest?
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1980s | |
Adam Ant's, "Man Called Marco"
Misheard Lyrics: Hello. I'm Marco I'm happy with the juice and I'm five foot seven
Original Lyrics: Hello, I'm Marco allow me to introduce my Firebird Seven
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Carmen's, "Time to Move"
Misheard Lyrics: Downtown, break it on down
Original Lyrics: Time to break it all down
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George Harrison's, "Got My Mind Set On You"
Misheard Lyrics: To do it, my child
Original Lyrics: To do it right child
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Jackson Browne's, "Boulevard"
Misheard Lyrics: You end up praying anyway
Original Lyrics: You end up playing anyway
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Jackson Browne's, "For America"
Misheard Lyrics: Believing in the Netherlands
Original Lyrics: Believing in the Motherland
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Jackson Browne's, "Tender is the Night"
Misheard Lyrics: Looking for some money
Original Lyrics: Looking for somebody
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Men at Work's, "Down Under"
Misheard Lyrics: He was 64 and full of muscle
Original Lyrics: He was 6'4" and full of muscle
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Men at Work's, "Down Under"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm in from a man in crutches
Original Lyrics: Buying bread from a man in Brussels
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Men at Work's, "Down Under"
Misheard Lyrics: Tunin' in to the Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Original Lyrics: Buying bread from a man in Brussels
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Pat Benatar's, "Heartbreaker"
Misheard Lyrics: You’re a jawbreaker
Original Lyrics: You’re a heartbreaker
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The Outfield's, "Voices of Babylon"
Misheard Lyrics: Insects barely keeping us alive
Original Lyrics: Instincts barely keeping us alive
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1990s | |
Daft Punk's, "Musique"
Misheard Lyrics: Muse me, muse me, muse me
Original Lyrics: Musique, Musique, Musique
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MC Hammer's, "U Can't Touch This"
Misheard Lyrics: Stop! Outta time!
Original Lyrics: Stop! Hammer time!
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Megadeth's, "Symphony Of Destruction"
Misheard Lyrics: Just like my viper
Bled rats to the streets Original Lyrics: Just like the Pied Piper
Led rats through the streets |
Primitive Radio Gods', "Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money I"
Misheard Lyrics: I been down Harlem Street; been down Harlem Street
Argh no Christmas today; nooo Christmas today Original Lyrics: I been downhearted baby
I been down, I been downhearted baby Ever since the day we met Ever since the day we met. |
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2000s | |
3 Doors Down's, "Kryptonite"
Misheard Lyrics: If I'm a llama then
Original Lyrics: If I'm alive and well
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American Hi-Fi's, "Flavor of the Weak"
Misheard Lyrics: She is the Playboy (Bunny) of the week
Original Lyrics: She is the flavor of the weak
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Daft Punk's, "Emotion"
Misheard Lyrics: Yeah, oh yeah. Yeah, oh yeah. Yeah, oh yeah.
Original Lyrics: Emotion, Emotion, Emotion
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Daft Punk's, "Steam Machine"
Misheard Lyrics: SHEEEEEEEP, SHEEEEEEEEP, SHEEEEEEEP, SHEEEEEEEEP,
Original Lyrics: Steam machiiiiiiine steam machiiiiiiiiiine steam machiiiiiiiine steam machiiiiiiiiiine
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Ke$ha's, "Tik Tok"
Misheard Lyrics: 'Til we see the southern lights
Original Lyrics: 'Til we see the sunlight
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2010s | |
Fates Warning's, "Alone We Walk"
Misheard Lyrics: Searching for another chance
To make us all one Who understands, I am with them now Original Lyrics: Surrounded now by emptiness
And I know that I am now the one Who understands I am one with night |
Lawson's, "Standing in the Dark"
Misheard Lyrics: Dark, Dark, oh, Dark, Dark, Oh
Original Lyrics: Dalek, Dalek, oh, Dalek Dalek, oh
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Lorde's, "Perfect Places"
Misheard Lyrics: I love the things we’re taking
Original Lyrics: All of the things we’re taking
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Lorde's, "Perfect Places"
Misheard Lyrics: Our love for heroes fading
Original Lyrics: All of our heroes fading
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xmas | |
Harry Belafonte's, "Mary's Boy Child"
Misheard Lyrics: Drunken sounds and angels sing
Original Lyrics: Trumpets sound and angels sing
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono's, "Happy Xmas (War is Over)"
Misheard Lyrics: Horlicks this Christmas
Original Lyrics: So this is Christmas
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NewSong's, "The Christmas Shoes"
Misheard Lyrics: It's Christmas Eve and her shoes are just her style
Original Lyrics: It's Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size
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TV Show Scripts', "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
Misheard Lyrics: I have dog s***!
Original Lyrics: I have dog germs!
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