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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:
Badder than ol' King Cole
Meaner than The Junkyard Dog.
The Real Lyrics:
Badder than ol' King Kong
Meaner than a junkyard dog.
The Story: I thought he was singing about ol king Cole and the pro wrestler The Junkyard Dog. - Submitted by: Barry
Jim Croce's, "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Fattest man in the whole downtown
The Real Lyrics:
Baddest man in the whole downtown
The Story: Yeah, I thought he was the fattest man! - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Jim Croce's, "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
The Misheard Lyrics:
He had a raisin in his shoe
The Real Lyrics:
He had a razor in his shoe
The Story: I was around 4. I figured having a raisin in his shoe made him mad, which made him act all bad. - Submitted by: Kate
Jim Croce's, "Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And at the end of the bar
Sat a girl named Guitar
The Real Lyrics:
And at the edge of the bar
Sat a girl named Doris
The Story: I'm not sure what it is about this song, but there are a bunch of misheard lyrics. - Submitted by: Rick Paulson
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, "Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Baddest man in the f****** town
The Real Lyrics:
Baddest man in the whole d*** town
The Story: word of mouth. I was only 7 years old. I didn't understand the 'jigsaw puzzle' reference either. - Submitted by: Chicago Kid
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
Jim Croce's, "Time in a Bottle"
The Misheard Lyrics:
If I could save dimes in a bottle
The Real Lyrics:
If I could save time in a bottle
The Story: This just had to be having to do with loose change. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Jim Croce's, "You Don't Mess Around with Jim"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You don't pull the mask off the Ozone Ranger
The Real Lyrics:
You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
The Story: One of my parents' friends misheard the lyrics, and his daughter told me the story of wondering who the "Ozone Ranger" was when I first became acquainted with Jim Croce. - Submitted by: Alan the Ottoman
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