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1960s | |
Procol Harum's, "Homburg"
Misheard Lyrics: And your shoes arrest you wrong
Original Lyrics: And your shoes are laced up wrong
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Stevie Wonder's, "My Cherie Amour"
Misheard Lyrics: How I wish that your were Brian
or How I wish that you were Ryan Original Lyrics: How I wish that you were mine
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1970s | |
ABBA's, "Dancing Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: You are a gassy queen
Original Lyrics: You are the dancing queen
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Bay City Rollers', "Keep on Dancing"
Misheard Lyrics: And now by Popular Mechanics
Original Lyrics: And now by popular demand
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Bee Gees', "Love You Inside Out"
Misheard Lyrics: Back to the condo with my heart hanging out
Original Lyrics: Backwards and forwards with my heart hanging out
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Genesis', "A Trick of the Tail"
Misheard Lyrics: And they got no sail
Original Lyrics: And they got no tail
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Joe Cocker's, "You are So Beautiful"
Misheard Lyrics: You’re everything to me
Original Lyrics: You’re everything I need
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Leo Sayer's, "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"
Misheard Lyrics: You make me feel so gassy
Original Lyrics: You make me feel like dancing
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Ringo Starr's, "You’re Sixteen"
Misheard Lyrics: You’re sexting, you’re beautiful and you’re blind
Original Lyrics: You’re sixteen, you’re beautiful and you’re mine
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Rod Stewart's, "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)"
Misheard Lyrics: Tonight's alive
Original Lyrics: Tonight's the night
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Stevie Wonder's, "Pastime Paradise"
Misheard Lyrics: Halloween on them
Original Lyrics: How many of them
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Van Halen's, "Beautiful Girls"
Misheard Lyrics: Here I am in the...arm pit of the world
Original Lyrics: Here I am, ain't no man of the world, no.
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1980s | |
Billy Bragg's, "Levi Stubbs' Tears"
Misheard Lyrics: Norman Wisdom and Barratt Strong
Are here to make everything right that's wrong Original Lyrics: Norman Whitfield and Barratt Strong
Are here to make everything right that's wrong |
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John Mellencamp's, "Jack & Diane"
Misheard Lyrics: Jackie O's gonna be a football star
Diana's getting all that Pepsi in Jackie's car Original Lyrics: Jack, he's gonna be a football star
Diane's debutante, back seat of Jacky's car |
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Lipps Inc.'s, "Funkytown"
Misheard Lyrics: Talk about, talk about, talk about Keurig
Original Lyrics: Talk about, talk about, talk about movin'
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Motley Crue's, "Girls, Girls, Girls"
Misheard Lyrics: Germs, germs, germs
Original Lyrics: Girls, girls, girls
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Patrick Swayze's, "She’s Like the Wind"
Misheard Lyrics: Nobody’s close to me
Original Lyrics: Your body close to me
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Queen's, "I Want to Break Free"
Misheard Lyrics: I want a grapefruit
Original Lyrics: I want to break free
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Queen's, "I Want to Break Free"
Misheard Lyrics: I want to grapefruit
Original Lyrics: I want to break free
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Queen's, "I Want to Break Free"
Misheard Lyrics: I’ve fallen alone
Original Lyrics: I’m falling in love
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Queen's, "Princes of the Universe"
Misheard Lyrics: But I can throw a rock, 'cause I'm rightful Stein
Original Lyrics: But I can prove 'em wrong, 'cause I'm right first time
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Queen's, "Radio Ga Ga"
Misheard Lyrics: All we hear is radio caca, radio cuckoo, radio caca
All we hear is radio caca, radio la la Radio, what's new? Original Lyrics: All we hear is radio ga ga, radio goo goo, radio ga ga
All we hear is radio ga ga, radio blah blah Radio, what's new? |
Queen's, "Who Wants to Live Forever"
Misheard Lyrics: And we can have forever, and we can last forever
Original Lyrics: And we can have forever, and we can love forever
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Queen's, "Who Wants to Live Forever"
Misheard Lyrics: Who dance to love forever? Oh, I love my style
Original Lyrics: Who dares to love forever? Oh, when love must die
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Queen's, "Who Wants to Live Forever"
Misheard Lyrics: Who dances to love forever?
Oh, I love my style Original Lyrics: Who dares to love forever?
Oh, when love must die |
Tracy Chapman's, "Fast Car"
Misheard Lyrics: You've got a gas card
Original Lyrics: You've got a fast car
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1990s | |
Blues Traveler's, "Theme from Roseanne (Season 9)"
Misheard Lyrics: Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny
Original Lyrics: Or the rabbit with the drum
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Bryan Adams', "Let's Make a Night to Remember"
Misheard Lyrics: From February to September
Original Lyrics: From January to December
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Cast of Barney & Friends', "Colors All Around"
Misheard Lyrics: Black like brown
or Black light brown Original Lyrics: Black, white, brown
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Cynthia Fee's, "Thank You for Being a Friend"
Misheard Lyrics: And the heart attack would say, "Thank you for being a friend."
Original Lyrics: And the card attached would say, "Thank you for being a friend."
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Natalie Merchant's, "Wonder"
Misheard Lyrics: No vaccination
or Whoa, I’m vaccinated or Morbid vaccination Original Lyrics: No explanation
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Queen's, "Innuendo"
Misheard Lyrics: Be free with your temple
Original Lyrics: Be free with your tempo
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Snap!'s, "The Power"
Misheard Lyrics: Stay, stay, stay in heaven
Original Lyrics: It's gettin', it's gettin', it's gettin' kinda heavy
(later) It's gettin', it's gettin', it's gettin' kinda hectic |
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Tracy Chapman's, "Give Me One Reason"
Misheard Lyrics: Jenny don't want to stay here
Original Lyrics: Give me one reason to stay here
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2000s | |
Backstreet Boys', "Incomplete"
Misheard Lyrics: I break for this heart to be unbroken
Original Lyrics: I pray for this heart to be unbroken
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Corinne Bailey Rae's, "Put Your Records On"
Misheard Lyrics: Girl, put your makeup on
Original Lyrics: Girl, put your records on
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D.H.T.'s, "Listen to Your Heart"
Misheard Lyrics: Before you tell him to dine
Original Lyrics: Before you tell him goodbye
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Enrique Iglesias', "Hero"
Misheard Lyrics: I don't care you'll be denied
Original Lyrics: I don't care you're here tonight
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Toploader's, "Dancing in the Moonlight"
Misheard Lyrics: They don't bark and they don't buy
Original Lyrics: They don't bark and they don't bite
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2010s | |
Ed Sheeran's, "Castle on the Hill"
Misheard Lyrics: We watched, the sign says
Over the cars on lonely hill Original Lyrics: We watched the sunset
Over the castle on the hill |
Taylor Swift's, "You Belong to Me"
Misheard Lyrics: Laughing on a fart bench, thinking to myself
Original Lyrics: Laughing on a park bench thinking to myself
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country | |
Gretchen Wilson's, "Redneck Woman"
Misheard Lyrics: Here's to all my sisters. I've been keepin' it country.
Original Lyrics: Here's to all my sisters out there keepin' it country.
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misc | |
Taylor Swift's, "Anti-Hero"
Misheard Lyrics: Did you hear my children’s narcissism I disguise as autism?
Original Lyrics: Did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruism
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