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This page contains all the misheard lyrics for I Don't Like Mondays that have been submitted to this site and the old collection from inthe80s started in 1996.
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Chicken and chips and cider bread
Silicon chip inside her head
Cinnamon sticks inside her head
Silicon chips inside her head
She runs to play with her twirlywind.
She wants to play with her toys a while.
Silicon Chicken Ciderhead
Silicon chip inside her head
Silicon chips and cider head
Silicon chips inside her head
Silly cold chips and cider head.
Silicon chip inside her head.
Sweet 16 ain't too peachy keen.
Sweet 16 ain't that peachy keen.
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Sweet 16 and a sex machine.
Sweet 16 ain't too peachy keen.
The Telex machine is kept so clean and it types to a waiting whirr
The Telex machine is kept so clean and it types to a waiting world
Then the bone phone crackles and the captain cackles
Of the problems of their house and wife.
Then the bullhorn crackles and the captain tackles
With the problems and the hows and whys.
Then the bullhorn crackles and the captain tackles
With their problems in the House of Lords
Then the bullhorn crackles and the captain tackles
With the problems and the hows and whys.
Hey Billy take a w*nk, take a w*nk, take a w*nk
Hey Billy take a walk, take a walk, take a walk
Sweet sixteen, they can play chicken.
or
Sweet sixteen, ain't that peachy clean?
Sweet sixteen, ain't that peachy keen?
Tell me why! I don't like mermaids
Tell me why! I don't like Mondays