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There are 173 misheard song lyrics for Bob Marley on amIright currently.
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"Alright"
Oh bear, he stinks of 12
Oh yeah, this Kingston crowd
"Buffalo Soldier"
Buffalo Soldier, dreadlocks Nebraska.
Buffalo soldier, dreadlock rasta.
"Buffalo Soldier"
Buffalo soldier, dead black rasta.
Buffalo soldier, dreadlock rasta.
"Buffalo Soldier"
Buffalo soldier, dreadlock roster.
Buffalo soldier, dreadlock rasta.
"Buffalo Soldier"
Buffalo soldier, treads on pasta.
Buffalo soldier, dreadlock rasta.
"Buffalo Soldier"
Buffalo soldier, treated like rasta
Buffalo soldier, dreadlock rasta.
"Buffalo Soldier"
Dreadlocked rascal
Dreadlocked rasta
"Buffalo Soldier"
Gridlocked rascal
Dreadlocked Rasta
"Buffalo Soldier"
Gridlocked rock star
Dreadlocked Rasta
"Buffalo Soldier"
Pop along soldier, hidden in pasta
Bufffalo soldier, dreadlock rasta
"Buffalo Soldier"
Stolen hermaphrodite brought to America
Stolen from Africa, brough to America
"Could You Be Loved?"
Could you be loved, and be loved?
Could you be loved? Then be loved.
"Could You Be Loved?"
Could you be loved? Can we love?
Could you be loved? Then be loved.
"Could You Be Loved?"
Don't let them fool ya
Or even try to screw ya
Don't let them fool ya
Or even try to school ya
"Could You Be Loved?"
Donde esta Julia?
Hoy vendra al estudio
(Spanish: Where is Julia?
Today I'm coming to the studio.)
Don't let them fool ya
Or let them try to school ya
"Could You Be Loved?"
Go to hell if what you're thinking is not 'riot!'
...go to hell if what you're thinking is not right.
Makes sense either way...
"Crazy Baldheads"
Myanmar build a cabin
Myanmar plant the corn
I 'n' I build a cabin
I 'n' I plant the corn
"Exodus"
Accidents, or riot
Movin' lots of people
Exodus (all right)
Movement of Jah people
"Exodus"
Exit us
Moonmen of Japipo.
Exodus
Movement of Ja people.
"Exodus"
Exodus
Ooh them Yorkshire people.
Exodus
Movement of Ja people.
"Exodus"
Exodus Movements of Shakira
Exodus (all right) Movement of Jah people
"Exodus"
Exodus move the orgy people
Exodus movement of Jah people
"Exodus"
Exodus, movement of da koshier people.
Exodus, movement of Jah people.
"Exodus"
Exodus: movement of Chiquita!
Exodus: movement of ja people!
"Exodus"
Pixie dust, movement of the people.
Exodus, movement of the people.
"Exodus"
Set the cactus free
Set the captives free
"Exodus"
Taxi Bus, move that bunch of people
Exodus, movement of jah people
"Forever Loving Jah"
We'll be forever a ninja
We'll be forever loving Jah
It really sounds like they are singing this even if you listen closely.
"Get Up, Stand Up"
Get up stand up
Stand up for your rice.
Get up stand up
Stand up for your rights.
"Get Up, Stand Up"
Get up, Stanley
Get up, stand up
"Get Up, Stand Up"
Get up, stand up
Stand up for your eye.
Get up, stand up
Stand up for your rights.
"Get Up, Stand Up"
It's a part of Peter's scroll; half the story has never been told.
It's not all that glitters is gold; half the story has never been told.
"Heathen"
The heathen back there, on the wall.
De heathen back, yeah, 'pon de wall!
"Heathen"
We can fight them on the wall
or
We can fight them underwater
De heathen back, yeah, 'pon de wall
"I Shot The Sheriff"
Eyes like cherries.
I shot the sheriff.
"I Shot The Sheriff"
Eyes, shocks and cherries
But I do not show no doubt guilty.
I shot the sheriff
But I did not shoot the deputy.
"I Shot The Sheriff"
Hi, Tom and Jerry!
I shot the sheriff.
"I Shot The Sheriff"
I eat chocolate cheddar.
I shot the sheriff.
"I Shot The Sheriff"
I got a Chevy.
I shot the sheriff.
"I Shot The Sheriff"
I got the sherry.
I shot the sheriff.
"I Shot The Sheriff"
I shock the sherry.
I shot the sheriff.
"I Shot The Sheriff"
I shot the sheriff,
And I beat up the deputy
I shot the sheriff,
But I didn't shoot the deputy
"I Shot The Sheriff"
I shot the sheriff
But I sware it wasn't salty fresh.
I shot the sheriff
But I swear it was in self-defense.
"I Shot The Sheriff"
I touched a tiger.
I shot the sheriff.
"I Shot The Sherriff"
I shop for Sherry.
I shot the sheriff.
"I Shot The Sherriff"
One day, the bottom of a shovel
One day, the bottom will drop out.
"I Shot the Sheriff"
I popped the cherry
I shot the sheriff
"I Shot the Sheriff"
I sat in the sherbet
I shot the sheriff
"I Shot the Sheriff"
I shot the sheriff
But I swear it was in silky pants.
I shot the sheriff
But I swear it was in self-defense.
"I Shot the Sheriff"
I shot the sherry
I shot the sheriff
"I Shot the Sheriff"
They say they want to bring me Indian chief
for the killing of a deputy.
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the killing of a deputy.
"I Shot the Sheriff"
They say they want to bring me in empty for the killing of a deputy
They say they want to bring me in guilty for the killing of a deputy.
"I Shot the Sherriff"
I shot the sherry.
I shot the sheriff.
"I Shot the Sherriff"
Ike shot chilly.
I shot the sheriff.
"Iron Lion Zion"
I am on the raw and then I check a stork
I am on the rock and then I check a stock
Although Bob Marley first wrote and recorded this song in the early 1970s, it was released posthumously and became a hit in 1992, more than a decade after his death.
"Is This Love?"
I am filling the table
But I put a curse on Aunty Mable.
I am willing and able
So I throw my cards on your table.
"Is This Love?"
I want a lawyer that treats me right.
I wanna love you and treat you right.
"Is This Love?"
I'm wearing an apron.
I'm willing and able.
"Is This Love?"
Jethro pass the bread
Jah provide the bread
"Is This Love?"
Jump rope on the bed
Jah provide the bread.
"Is This Love?"
Jump rope past the bridge
Jah provide the bread
"Is This Love?"
We'll be together with a roof rack over our heads
We'll be together with a roof right over our heads
"Is This Love?"
We'll be together, with a roof rack over our heads...
We'll share the day room, will Jah provide the bread...
We'll be together, with a roof right over our heads..
We'll share the same room, will Jah provide the bread
Just liked the idea of two people still in love in an old folks home. Where the roof rack comes in, I've no idea.
"Is This Love?"
We'll be together, with a roof-rack over our heads.
We'll be together, with a roof right over our heads.
"Is This Love?"
We'll be together
With a roof-rack over our head.
We'll be be together
With a roof right over our head.
"Is This Love?"
We'll share each other, like love mice in the bed
We'll share the shelter of my single bed
"Is This Love?"
We'll share each other, on my single bed
We'll share the shelter, of my single bed.
The misheard line has been seen on kareoke displays.
"Is This Love?"
We'll share the same room, while Jethro fries the bread.
We'll share the same room, while Ja provides the bread.
"Is This Love?"
We'll share the same room, yeah
We'll jump rope by the bridge
We'll share the same room, yeah
For Jah provide the bread
"Is This Love?"
We'll share the same room, yeah
While Jethro fries the bread.
We'll share the same room, yeah
For Jah provide the bread.
"Is This Love?"
We'll share the same room, yeah
And my single bed.
We'll share the same room, yeah
For Jah provide the bread.
"Is This Love?"
We'll share the same room, yeah
And sacrifice the bread
It's this love, it's this love, it's this love.
We'll share the same room, yeah
For Jah provide the bread
Is this love, is this love, is this love?
"Is This Love?"
We'll share the same room, yeah
For Jack can't find the bread.
We'll share the same room, yeah
For Jah provide the bread.
"Is This Love?"
Why jump rope piles of bread?
Jah provide the bread.
"Is This Love?"
With a roof rack over my head
With a roof right over my head
"Is This Love?"
With a roof rack over our heads
With a roof right over our heads
"Is This Love?"
With the roof rack over our heads
With the roof right over our heads
"Is This Love"
We'll jump right off a bridge
For Jah provide the bread
"Is This Love"
Yeah! - and we'll jump rope by the bay
Yeah! - for Jah provide the bread
"Jammin'"
And I hope you like pajamas, too.
And I hope you like jammin', too.
"Jammin'"
And we're jamming in the name of the law
And we're jamming in the name of the lord
"Jammin'"
I hope you like Charmin too.
I hope you like jammin' too.
"Jammin'"
Jah seated in mount zion, and rules all creation: Air wear
Jah sittith in mount zion, and rules all creation yeah we're
"Jammin'"
Me llaman
We're jammin'
The misheard line means "They call me" in Spanish
"Jammin'"
No bully can stop us now
We need to beg, nor we won't bow
Neither can we lose our sole.
No bullet can stop us now
We neither beg, nor we won't bow
Neither can be bought nor sold.
"Jammin'"
Pajamas!
We're jammin'!
"Jammin'"
Pajamas, Pajamas,
Don't you like Pajamas too
We're Jammin', We're Jammin',
Don't you like Jammin' too
"Jammin'"
Pyjamas, boop sha wallawalla
I'll wear my jammies with you.
Jammin', boop sha wallawalla
I wanna jam it with you.
"Jammin'"
Pyjamas, pyjamas
Jammin', jammin'
"Jammin'"
We all defend the right; jam jar children must unite
We all defend the right; Jah - Jah children must unite
"Jammin'"
We're German, German,
And I hope you like Germans, too
We're jammin', jammin',
And I hope you like jammin', too
"Jammin'"
We're German, German
And I hope you like German too.
We're jammin', jammin'
And I hope you like jammin' too.
"Jammin'"
We're charming, charming,
And I hope you like charming, too
We're jammin', jammin',
And I hope you like jammin', too
"Jammin'"
We're jammin' (f**k you all),
F**k you n your war, we're jammin' (f**k you all)
We're jammin' (wotcha-wa),
Wotcha-wa-wa-wa, we're jammin' (wotcha-wa),
"Jammin'"
What chihuahua?
Watcha-wa
"Jammin'"
Yeah, we're - we're jammin' (what a whore)
Thought you was a whore, we're jammin' (what a whore).
Yeah, we're - we're jammin' (wotcha-wa)
Wotcha-wa-wa-wa, we're jammin' (wotcha-wa).
From Mandeville to Slide-A-Ville
From Mandeville to Sligoville
This lyric is actually in the book 'Catch a Fire'. This lyric is frequently misquoted on lyric web boards. Most people think it is Slide-A-Ville but that makes no sense. There is no town named Slide-A-Ville in Jamaica. The true lyric is Sligoville, a town in Jamaica, that Mr. Brown travelled to from Mandeville, another town in Jamaica.
Mr. Brown is a clown
Who rides to town in a golf cart.
Mr. Brown is a clown
Who rides to town in a coffin.
"No More Trouble"
We don't need no more Java.
We don't need no more trouble.
"No Woman No Cry"
In the government, you're entrenched now.
In the government yard in Trenchtown
"No Woman No Cry"
My fear is my only courage.
My feet is my only carriage.
"No Woman, No Cry"
Ah lick'a toilet, don' shed no tears.
Oh little darlin', don't shed no tears.
"No Woman, No Cry"
And we would cook some Neosporin
Of which I'll share with you.
And we would cook cornmeal porridge
Of which I'll share with you.
"No Woman, No Cry"
I remember when we used to sit
In the government you're entrenched in.
I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown.
"No Woman, No Cry"
In the government fjord in Trtenchtown
In the government yard in Trenchtown
"No Woman, No Cry"
My fear is my only carriage.
My feet is my only carriage.
"No Woman, No Cry"
My fear is my only courage.
My feet are my only carriage.
"No Woman, No Cry"
No old man don't cry.
No woman, no cry
"No Woman, No Cry"
No woman, no child
No woman, no cry
"No Woman, No Cry"
No woman, no crack
No woman, no cry
"No Woman, No Cry"
No woman, no crime
No woman no cry
"No Woman, No Cry"
No woman, no pride
No woman, no cry
"No Woman, No Cry"
No worms in the pies
No burgers, no fries
No woman, no cry
No woman, no cry
"One Love (People Get Ready)" (MP3)
Let's get together and feel all ripe
Let's get together and feel alright
"One Love (People Get Ready)" (MP3)
Let's get together and feel all white
Let's get together and feel all right
"One Love (People Get Ready)" (MP3)
Let's get together to fight this
Holy 'I'm a Gideon'
Let's get together to fight this
Holy Armageddon
"One Love (People Get Ready)" (MP3)
Let's get together
Do it like this only on my diddy-dong.
Let's get together
To fight this holy Armageddon.
"One Love/People Get Ready" (MP3)
Voila
One love
"One Love/People Get Ready" (MP3)
Wawa
One love
Let's get together and sing all night
Let's get together and feel alright
Let's get together and sleep all night
Let's get together and feel alright
Let's get together and take a ride
Let's get together and feel all right
"Rastaman Chant"
Said I hear the angel with the seven seas,
saying, saying, oh yeah
Babylon, your control gone down, gone down,
Babylon, your control gone down
And I hear the angel with the seventh seal,
saying, saying, oh yeah.
Babylon your throne gone down, gone down,
Babylon your throne gone down
"Redemption Song"
All pirates they're all Rabi's
Old pirates, yes, they rob I;
"Redemption Song"
Don't you make me sing
Of these taco people
'Cause they're all that make me mad
Detention song.
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever have
Redemption songs.
"Redemption Song"
Man, it's a day to die.
From the bottom they spit.
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit.
"Redemption Song"
Old Pirate is just a Rabbi
Sold out to a merchant ship.
Old pirates, yes, they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships.
"Redemption Song"
Old pirate says the rabbi sold I to the merchant ship
Minutes before they took I into captivity.
Old pirates yes they rob I sold I to the merchant ship
Minutes after they took I from the bottomless pit.
"Redemption Song"
One Pirate kissed a Rabbi
Sold i to the man with whips
Ol' pirates yes they rob i,
Sold i to the merchant ships
"She's Gone"
Ho-lada-her, lada, ho-lada-her
Ho-lada-her lada he
Oh, mocking bird, have you ever heard
Words that I never heard
We also enjoy "She's Gone" by Hall & Oates. More misheard lyrics to come from there.
"So Much Trouble In The World"
Someone's travellin' in the world
So much trouble in the world
Serious
or
Cereal
or
Cereal
Stir it up
Little darlin', cereal.
Little darlin', stir it up.
Little darlin’, Cheerios
Little darlin', stir it up.
Little town in Syria
Little darlin', stir it up.
Little town in Syria
Little darlin', stir it up.
Serious, little darlin'.
Stir it up, little darlin'.
We've got diphtheria
Little darlin', stir it up.
I'm a rainbow Jew.
I'm a rainbow, too.
I'm a lesbian.
To the rescue.
"Three Little Birds"
3 little birds sing by my window,
singing sweet songs,
a little bit pure and true
3 little birds sing by my window,
singing sweet songs,
a melody pure and true
"Three Little Birds"
Green little birds
Three little birds
"Three Little Birds"
Green little birds
three little birds
"Three Little Birds"
Lysol this morning
or
Rest stop this morning
Rise up this morning
"Three Little Birds"
Tweet little birds
Three little birds
"Three Little Birds"
Tweet little birds
Three little birds
"Three Little Birds"
Tweet little birds
three little birds
"Three Little Birds"
Wee little birds
or
We little birds
Three little birds
"Waiting In Vain"
Ew girl, ew girl
Is this the way we go?
I wanna know now
So I can rock your boat.
Ooh girl, ooh girl
Is it feasible?
I wanna know now
For I to knock some more.
"Waiting In Vain"
I don't want a wedding dress for your love.
I don't want to wait in vain for your love.
"Waiting In Vain"
I don't want to wait a day for you love.
I don't want to wait in vain for your love.
"Waiting In Vain"
Tears in my sperm, tears in my sperm
While I'm waiting, while I'm waiting for my turn.
Tears in my eyes burn, tears in my eyes burn
While I'm waiting, while I'm waiting for my turn.
"Waiting In Vain"
Tears in my sperm
Tears in my sperm.
Tears in my eyes burn
Tears in my eyes burn.
"Waiting In Vain"
Using my sperm, using my sperm
Tears in my eyes burn, tears in my eyes burn.
"Waiting in Vain"
Tears in my iceberg, while I'm waiting
While I'm waiting for my girl.
Tears in my eyes burn, while I'm waiting
While I'm waiting for my turn.
"Want More"
Down, black diver, down black diver.
Go down, back-biter, down, back-biter!
"Who The Cap Fit"
Who The Gap fit, let them wear it.
Who the cap fit, let them wear it.