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There are 22 misheard song lyrics for Canned Heat on amIright currently.
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"Going Up The Country" (MP3)
Going up the country
Where the mar-i-ju-ana grows.
Goin' up the country
Baby, don't chu wanna go?
"Going Up The Country" (MP3)
I'm a ducky and do you want to go?
Goin' up the country...baby, don't chu wanna go?
"Going Up the Country" (MP3)
Friendship in Monaco
And babe, don’t you wanna go?
"Going Up the Country" (MP3)
Hey, don't you want to go?
And babe, don't you want to go?
"Going Up the Country" (MP3)
No use in you runnin' or screamin' and cryin'
'Cause you got your wombat, baby I got mine
No use of you runnin' or screamin' and cryin'
'Cause you got a home as long as I got mine
Not much of a story--that's how my twelve-year-old ears heard it on the cheesy speakers of the transistor radios of the era. I thought it was pretty cool to have a song about wombats.
"Going Up the Country" (MP3)
Ready and on the road
And babe, don't you want to go?
"Going Up the Country" (MP3)
The woman takes my wine
The water tastes like wine
"Going Up the Country" (MP3)
Where are you gonna blow?
And babe, don't you wanna go?
"Going Up the Country" (MP3)
Where are you gonna go?
And babe, don't you wanna go?
"Going Up the Country" (MP3)
Where do you want to go?
Baby, don't you want to go?
"Let's Work Together" (MP3)
And the road is trouble
And the road you travel
"Let's Work Together" (MP3)
Before when things go wrong, as they sometimes well
Before when things go wrong, as they sometimes will
"Let's Work Together" (MP3)
In this life for hours
In this life of ours
"Let's Work Together" (MP3)
In this light for hours
In this life of ours
"Let's Work Together" (MP3)
Let's get on the bone and work together
Let's get on the ball and work together
"Let's Work Together" (MP3)
Let's get out the door and work together
Let's get on the ball and work together
"Let's Work Together" (MP3)
Oh well now, two paltry minutes, two paltry hours
What does it matter now, it's inside the law
Oh well now, two or three minutes, two or three hours
What does it matter now, in this life of ours
"Let’s Work Together" (MP3)
Let’s get on the floor and work together
Let’s get on the bone and work together
"On the Road Again" (MP3)
And my damn mother left me when I was quite young
And my dear mother left me when I was quite young
"On the Road Again" (MP3)
I ain’t got no robot
I ain’t got no woman
"On the Road Again" (MP3)
Well, I'm so tired of crime
Well, I'm so tired of crying
"On the Road Again" (MP3)
Well, I'm so tired of trying
Well, I'm so tired of crying
