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This page contains all the misheard lyrics for Give It Away that have been submitted to this site and the old collection from inthe80s started in 1996.
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AAA, AAA, AAA now
Give it away, give it away, give it away now
Each instance of "AAA" to be read as "Triple-A"
Auditors grab material excess
Unimpressed by material excess
Bob Marley blowing in a bucket
Bob Marley, poet and a prophet
Bob Marley bowing like a bluffer.
Bob Marley poet and a prophet.
Bob Marley comin' out your armpit
Bob Marley, poet and a prophet
Bob Marley glowing like a bucket
Bob Marley poet and a prophet
Bob Marley rollin' in a bucket.
Bob Marley poet and a profit.
Bob Marley walkin' like a dog.
or
Bob Marley, walking like a donkey.
Bob Marley, walkin' like he talk it.
Bob Marley walking like a doggie.
Bob Marley, poet and a prophet.
Bob Marley walking like a prophet.
Bob Marley, poet and a prophet.
Bob Marley, livin' in a bucket
Bob Marley, poet and a prophet
Bob Marley, rowin' in a bucket
Bob Marley, poet and a prophet
But my lips couldn't get it out it.
Bob Marley, poet and a prophet.
Chick-fil-A, Chick-fil-A, Chick-fil-A now
Give it away, give it away, give it away now
Come on everybody chicken liver
Come on everybody time to deliver
Confide with sly yuletide a prizer
Confide wisely you'll be the wiser
Confide with sly, you'll be the wiser.
Confide wisely, you'll be the wiser.
Confined to slide up in Loaiza
Confide wisely, you'll be the wiser.
Dealing with the devil, don't stop, continue.
Reeling with the feeling, don't stop, continue.
Do the wave, do the wave, do the wave now
Give it away, give it away, give it away now
Get down with the bow wow.
Get down with the pow wow.
Gibbon away, gibbon away, gibbon away now.
Give it away, give it away, give it away now.
Give a little, people in a sea of discus.
Greedy little people in the sea of distress.
Give it to Wayne, give it to Wayne, give it to Wayne now.
Give it away, give it away, give it away now.
Give ole, give ole, give ole now
Give it away, give it away, give it away now
Give us a wave, give us a wave, give us a wave now.
Give it away, give it away, give it away now.
Greedy little people in the sea of biscuits
Greedy little people in the sea of distress
Greedy little people,
let me see your discus
Greedy little people
in the sea of distress
I can't believe I bought a 50 dollar pom-pom.
or
I don't care, oh put your finger up my b**-b**.
I can't tell if I'm a kingpin or a pauper.
I can't tell if I'm a real cranberry brotha.
I can't tell if I'm a king pin or a pauper.
I can't tell if I'm a singing oral bopper.
I can't tell if I'm a king pin or a pauper.
Juedo, juedo, juedo
or
Juego, juego, juego
or
Huelo, huelo, huelo
Give it away, give it away, give it away now.
Translated from Spanish, the three misheard lyrics mean, 'I f***', 'I play,' and 'I smell' respectively.
Minimum wage, minimum wage, minimum wage, yeah
Give it away, give it away, give it away now
No time for the piggy or the loose cow.
No time for the piggies or the hoosegow.
One quick time gotta keep it motherf***er.
I can't tell if I'm a kingpin or a pauper.
Palmolive, pokin' into profit.
Bob Marley, poet and a prophet.
Pretty little people in a sea of distance.
Greedy little people in a sea of distress.
Realize Cobb Knobbler is the wiser.
Realize I don't wanna be a miser.
Sit on my face
Sit on my face
Sit on my face now.
Give it away
Give it away
Give it away now.
There's a rhythm, boy, to be a giver
There's a river born to be a giver
Tigger’s awake, Tigger’s awake
or
Tigger’s away, Tigger’s away
Give it away, give it away
Walk in time, gonna keep a mother f***er.
I can't tell if I'm a king pin or a pauper.
What I've got, you gotta give it to your bum-bum
What I've got, you gotta give it to your papa
What I've got, you've got to give it to your dog.
What I've got, you've got to give it to your daughter.
Wheeling with the dealing, don't stop, continue
Reeling with the feeling, don't stop, continue.
Young blood is bubblin' like a riser
How come everybody wanna keep it like a geyser?
Young blood is the lovin' upriser
How come everybody wanna keep it like the kaiser?