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This page contains a list of the songs that have stories about their misheard lyrics submitted.

Song names are sorted by first letter, excluding A and The. This is sorted by song title only, not by song title and performer. So if two different performers preformed the same song, you'll see misheard lyrics for both on the same page (provided the song title was spelt the same both times, and misheard lyrics have been submitted for both!).


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Jim Croce's, "Bad Bad Leroy Brown"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Baddest man in the whole downtown
The Real Lyrics:
Baddest man in the whole damn town
The Story: I was seven years old, singing 'baddest man in the whole downtown' when my Dad told me never to say that word again. I might never have known it was 'damn' if Dad hadn't yelled at me for saying it wrong. - Submitted by: Jeff McFarland
Jim Croce's, "Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And it's fat, fat Leroy Brown
The fattest man in the whole down town
Fatter than old King Cole
And leaner than a junkyard dog.
The Real Lyrics:
And it's bad, bad Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog.
The Story: When I first heard this song, I must have been thinking of Robert Earl Hughes, who I just read about in the Guinness Book of World Records (he held the record for fattest human at the time). - Submitted by: Paul Anderson
Jim Croce's, "Time In A Bottle"
The Misheard Lyrics:
If I could spend time in a brothel
The Real Lyrics:
If I could save time in a bottle
The Story: When my friend and I were in college in the mid-seventies, this was popular. One day she said that she couldn't believe that they kept playing this song. I asked why and she responded that she felt it was obscene playing a song about going to a brothel! - Submitted by: Marie
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