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A spoonerism occurs when the first letters or syllables of two or more words get swapped. The term spoonerism is named in honor of the Reverend William Archibald Spooner whose students used to write down all the instances of spoonerisms that he made. This page focuses on spoonerisms in song lyrics.

Lyrics Spoonerisms, Index

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A
ABBA	Adele	Adrienne Lenker
Lily Allen	Jessica Andrews	Archies
Eddy Arnold	Arthur Prysock	Gene Autry
B
The Band	Barry Mann	Beach Boys
Billy Joel	Bing Cosby	Bing Crosby
Mary J. Blige	Blue Oyster Cult	Bobby Fuller Four
Bob Dylan	Bon Jovi	Bonnie Tyler
The Brothers Four	BTS	Buffalo Springfield
Jimmy Buffett	Bush
C
Glen Campbell	Kim Carnes	The Carpenters
Johnny Cash	Cast of 'South Pacific'	Cast of 'The King And I'
Cast of 'The Sound Of Music'	Cats Can Fly	Tracy Chapman
Ray Charles	The Chiffons	Chris Connor
Traditional	Charlotte Church	Kelly Clarkson
Climax	Patsy Cline	The Clovers
Judy Collins	Perry Como	Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Cribs	Bing Crosby
D
Bobby Darin	Dave Matthews Band	Deadeye Dick
John Denver	Neil Diamond	The Doobie Brothers
The Drifters	Duran Duran
E
Elton John	Ernest Ashworth	Everlast
The Everly Brothers
F
5th Dimension	The Foundations	The Four Seasons
Connie Francis
G
Gary Lewis And The Playboys	Gary Puckett & The Union Gap	Bobbie Gentry
George Formby	George Thorogood	Bobby Goldsboro
Lesley Gore	Gorillaz	Ariana Grande
Natalie Grant	A Great Big World
H
Merle Haggard	Tom T. Hall	Hamilton, Joe Frank And Reynolds
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds	Hank Williams	Hard-Fi
Bobby Helms	The Highwaymen	Rupert Holmes
Bob Hope
I
Ian & Sylvia	Burl Ives
J
Alan Jackson	Michael Jackson	Jan & Dean
Jay & The Americans	Elton John	Johnny Preston
Carolyn Dawn Johnson
K
Kathy Kallick	Katy Perry	Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton
The Kingston Trio
L
Lady GaGa	Larry Gatlin And The Gatlin Brothers	Brenda Lee
John Lennon	Annie Lennox	Gordon Lightfoot
Little Anthony And The Imperials	Little Feat	Lobo
Lisa Loeb
M
Maddy G.	Madonna	Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Dean Martin	Marty Robbins	Johnny Mathis
The McGuire Sisters	Don McLean	Meg Myers
Melanie	Katie Melua	Michelle Amato
Roger Miller	Stephanie Mills	Guy Mitchell
Van Morrison	Anne Murray
N
Neil Sedaka	Newsboys	Harry Nilsson
No DOubt	Laura Nyro
O
Buck Owens
P
Patti Page	Fess Parker	Dolly Parton
Paul And Paula	Paul Mauriat	Paul McCartney And Wings
Peppa Pig	Wilson Pickett	Gene Pitney
The Platters	Pointer Sisters	Pop Evil
Elvis Presley	Johnny Preston	Charley Pride
Prince
R
Jim Reeves	Rick Dees	Rick Nelson
The Righteous Brothers	LeAnn Rimes	Marty Robbins
Tommy Roe	Roger Whittaker	The Rolling Stones
Linda Ronstadt	Billy Joe Royal
S
Sgt. Barry Sadler	Shinedown	The Shirelles
Frank Sinatra	Kay Starr	Stephen Foster
Rod Stewart	Harry Styles	System Of A Down
T
James Taylor	The Beach Boys	The Beatles
The BoxTops	The Flaming Lips	The Fleetwoods
The Four Tops	The Mamas & The Papas	The Mamas & The Papas
The Oak Ridge Boys	The Playmates	The Serendipity Singers
The Stray Cats	The Temptation	B.J. Thomas
Pam Tillis	Traditional	Traditional Irish
Tradtional	Train	Tanya Tucker
Bonnie Tyler
U
Carrie Underwood	USA For Africa
V
Miscellaneous	Bobby Vinton
W
Weezer	"Weird Al" Yankovic	Mary Wells
Matthew West	Wham!	Roger Whittaker
Marty Wilde	Don Williams

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