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ABBA's, "Chiquitita"
Misheard Lyrics: Dikke tieten in een BH
Original Lyrics: Chiquitita, you and I know
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ABBA's, "Dancing Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: Frigging the dancing queen
Original Lyrics: Digging the dancing queen
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ABBA's, "Fernando"
Misheard Lyrics: And I'm not afraid to say
The roar of Bunsen candles almost made me cry Original Lyrics: And I'm not afraid to say
The roar of guns and cannons almost made me cry |
ABBA's, "Fernando"
Misheard Lyrics: And I'm not ashamed to say The roar of Bunson cannons almost made me cry.
Original Lyrics: And I'm not ashamed to say The roar of guns and cannons almost made me cry.
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ABBA's, "Fernando"
Misheard Lyrics: Can you hear the crumbs, Fernando?
Original Lyrics: Can you hear the drums, Fernando?
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ABBA's, "Fernando"
Misheard Lyrics: Can you hear the drums, Commando?
Original Lyrics: Can you hear the drums, Fernando?
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ABBA's, "Fernando"
Misheard Lyrics: I could here the distant drums And sound of humour and darts coming from the bar.
Original Lyrics: I could hear the distant drums And the sounds of bugle calls were coming from afar.
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ABBA's, "Fernando"
Misheard Lyrics: It's been many years since I've seen a rifle in your head Can you fear the dung, Orlando?
Original Lyrics: Since many years I haven't seen a rifle in your hand Can you hear the drums Fernando?
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ABBA's, "Fernando"
Misheard Lyrics: Since many years I haven't seen a rival in your land
Original Lyrics: Since many years I haven't seen a rifle in your hand
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ABBA's, "Fernando"
Misheard Lyrics: Since many years I haven't seen arrival in your land
Original Lyrics: Since many years I haven't seen a rifle in your hand
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ABBA's, "Fernando"
Misheard Lyrics: There was nothing there to wear that night,
I had to go Commando Original Lyrics: There was something in the air that night,
The stars were bright, Fernando |
ABBA's, "Fernando"
Misheard Lyrics: There was something in the air that Nightbot The smelt like style, Fernando
Original Lyrics: There was something in the air that night The stars were bright, Fernando
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ABBA's, "Fernando"
Misheard Lyrics: They were shining there for you and me
For Lee and for tea, Fernando Original Lyrics: They were shining there for you and me
For liberty, Fernando |
ABBA's, "Lay All Your Love on Me"
Misheard Lyrics: A little talk, slime damn, baby, I was stuck.
Original Lyrics: A little small talk, a smile and baby, I was stuck.
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ABBA's, "Ring Ring"
Misheard Lyrics: I just can't believe that I could be so badly mistaking
Original Lyrics: I just can't believe that I could be so badly mistaken
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ABBA's, "Ring Ring"
Misheard Lyrics: I just can't believe that I could be so madly mistaking
Original Lyrics: I just can't believe that I could be so badly mistaken
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ABBA's, "Ring Ring"
Misheard Lyrics: Won't you hear me cry and you will know
That my car is breaking? Original Lyrics: Won't you hear me cry and you will know
That my heart is breaking? |
ABBA's, "Ring Ring"
Misheard Lyrics: Won't you hear me cry and you will know
That my hard is breaking? Original Lyrics: Won't you hear me cry and you will know
That my heart is breaking? |
ABBA's, "Ring Ring"
Misheard Lyrics: Won't you hear me cry and you will know
That my hot is breaking? Original Lyrics: Won't you hear me cry and you will know
That my heart is breaking? |
ABBA's, "Ring Ring"
Misheard Lyrics: Won't you hear me cry and you will know
That the hound is breaking? Original Lyrics: Won't you hear me cry and you will know
That my heart is breaking? |
ABBA's, "Ring Ring"
Misheard Lyrics: Won't you hear me cry and you will know
That the hound is breaking? Original Lyrics: Won't you hear me cry and you will know
That my heart is breaking? |
ABBA's, "S.O.S."
Misheard Lyrics: Where are this appetizers? They're so hard to find
Original Lyrics: Where are those happy days? They seem so hard to find
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ABBA's, "S.O.S."
Misheard Lyrics: Where are those ABBA times?
Original Lyrics: Where are those happy days?
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ABBA's, "Take a Chance on Me"
Misheard Lyrics: If you change your mind on a first day line I mean I'm still free, take a chance on me or If you change your mind on a bird day's line I mean I'm still free, take a chance on me or If you change your mind on a birthday's line I mean I'm still free, take a chance on me
Original Lyrics: If you change your mind, I'm the first in line Honey I'm still free, take a chance on me
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ABBA's, "Take a Chance on Me"
Misheard Lyrics: If you're all alone with a BT bursting phone
Original Lyrics: If you're all alone when the pretty birds have flown
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Gloria Loring's, "The Facts of Life"
Misheard Lyrics: You make it good, you make it bad
or You make it good, you make it better Original Lyrics: You take the good, you take the bad
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1980s | |
Bon Jovi's, "Born to Be My Baby"
Misheard Lyrics: And baby I was made to be in L.A.
Original Lyrics: And baby I was made to be your man
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Toto's, "Africa"
Misheard Lyrics: I miss the rains down in Africa.
Original Lyrics: I bless the rains down in Africa.
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Toto's, "Africa"
Misheard Lyrics: I placed the bets down in Aqueduct.
Original Lyrics: I bless the rains down in Africa.
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Toto's, "Africa"
Misheard Lyrics: Sure as Killem and Jerome rises like a litmus Above the savage in me
Original Lyrics: As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus Above the Serengeti
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Toto's, "Africa"
Misheard Lyrics: Sure as Killem and Jerome rises like a litmus
Above the savage in me Original Lyrics: As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus
Above the Serengeti |
Toto's, "Africa"
Misheard Lyrics: Tears, lonely whispers, and some quiet conversation
Original Lyrics: She hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
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Toto's, "Rosanna"
Misheard Lyrics: All I wanna do When I wake up in the morning is feel alright
Original Lyrics: All I wanna do When I wake up in the morning is see your eyes
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Toto's, "Rosanna"
Misheard Lyrics: All I want to do When I wake up in the morning is see you alive
Original Lyrics: All I want to do When I wake up in the morning is see your eyes
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Toto's, "Rosanna"
Misheard Lyrics: All I want to do
When I wake up in the morning is see you alive Original Lyrics: All I want to do
When I wake up in the morning is see your eyes |
Toto's, "Rosanna"
Misheard Lyrics: Beetroot all the way, Rosanna, yeah
Original Lyrics: Meet you all the way, Rosanna, yeah
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Van Halen's, "Jump"
Misheard Lyrics: You got to roll with the punches to jig-a ma squeal
Original Lyrics: You got to roll with the punches to get to what's real
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2000s | |
Nelly Furtado's, "I'm Like a Bird"
Misheard Lyrics: I don't know if I stole it
Original Lyrics: I don't know where my soul is
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2010s | |
Calvin Harris', "How Deep Is Your Love"
Misheard Lyrics: So tell me how deep is your love, go in, go deeper
Original Lyrics: So tell me how deep is your love? Can it go deeper?
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Commercial's, "Avocados from Mexico"
Misheard Lyrics: Cod those from Mexico
Original Lyrics: Avocados from Mexico
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Michael Buble's, "Haven't Met You Yet"
Misheard Lyrics: I just haven't made a guess
Original Lyrics: I just haven't met you yet
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Taylor Swift's, "…Ready for It?"
Misheard Lyrics: Some boys are trying too hard, he don't drive that Volvo
Original Lyrics: Some boys are trying too hard, he don't try at all though
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Waylon Jennings', "Theme from the Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys)"
Misheard Lyrics: Just a 2-year-old boy
(later) I'm a 2-year-old boy Original Lyrics: Just a good ol' boy
(later) I'm a good ol' boy |
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Elton John and Dua Lipa's, "Cold Heart"
Misheard Lyrics: Gold gold car
Original Lyrics: Cold cold heart
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Tones and I's, "Dance Monkey"
Misheard Lyrics: By golly, by golly, by golly
or Good golly, good golly, good golly or My golly, my golly, my golly Original Lyrics: Move for me, move for me, move for me
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