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R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
According to wriggler
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Baby S Club 7
Baby, instant soup
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Baker's nuts, Chugger's nuts
Call me when you try to wake her up
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Cabeza Hueca
or
Come into Waker
or
Calling to wake her
or
Coming to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
Cabeza Hueca, Spanish for 'hollow head'.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call in to wake her up.
Call me when you try to wake her up
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me Chad Micklewipe.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me Chatawaga.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
whatever "Chatawaga" is or means
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me Cheryl Baker.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me Chow Baker.
or
Calling chowder maker.
or
Calming Sue Baker.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me Chuck Baker.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me Chuck Baker
Call me when you try to wake her up
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me Chuck the baker.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me Garrincha.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me Jim Bakker.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me Tom Baker
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me Tommy Baker.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me a child maker.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me a child maker
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me a child waker.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me a chocolate wafer.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me a chowder baker head
Call me when you try to wake her up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me and try and wait for her
Call when you try to wake her up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me child breaker.
Call me when you try to wake her.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me in Chatawaka.
Call me when you try to wake her.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me in Chi-wae-kuh.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me in Jamaica, mon
Call me when you try to wake her up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me in Jamaica.
Call me when you try to wake her.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me in Jamaica
Call me when you try to wake her up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me in chalawaika
Call me when you try to wake her up
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me only Cheryl Baker
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me the 'D'yer Mak'er'.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me when you don't eat Jamaica
Call me when you try to wake her up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me when you get the baker.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me when you get to Chautauqua.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me, Channel Baker.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call me, Cheryl Baker.
Call when you try to wake her.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call your time, Abraham.
Call me when you try to wake her.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Call your toe, Abraham.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Callin' Jamaica
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Callin' Joe Baker
Call me when you try to wake her.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling Chad Baker
Call me when you try to wake her up
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling Charlie Baker
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling Chatter Baker
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling Cheryl Baker up
Call me when you try to wake her up
Note: Cheryl Baker was a singer in the '80s Eurovision winning act, Bucks Fizz.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling Cheryl Baker up
Call when you try to wake her up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling Cheryl Baker.
Call me when you try to wake her.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling Cheryl Baker.
Call me when you try to wake her.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling Cheryl Baker
Call me when you try to wake her.
Roy-castle-dedicaction adds: "Cheryl Baker, of course, being a member of UK Eurovision winning quartet Bucks Fizz. The gorgous Cheryl went on to be a co-presenter of 'Record Breakers' with Roy Castle."
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling Cheryl Baker
Call me when you try to wake her.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling Chuck Yeager up
or
Communists are waking up.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling Chud in Waco land
Call me when you try to wake her up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling Frau Bakerer
Call me when you wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling Jamaica.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling Jamaica
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling Jamaica
Call me when you try to wake her up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling Jamaica
Call me when you try to wake her.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling Mr. Jamaica man
Call me when you try to wake her up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling Tasmania.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling Trevor Baker.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling a child a vicar.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling chider wake, ha!
Call me when you wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling each other Baker.
Call me when you try to wake her up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling each other a baker.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling each other a wanker
Call me when you try to wake her
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling everybody wanker.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling in Jamaica
or
Coming in Jamaica.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling ol' Langley up
Call me to wake her up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling on Charlie's Angels
Call me when you try to wake her up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling salvation
Yeah, calling salvation.
Call me when you try to wake her up
Call me when you try to wake her.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calling should wake her up
or
Go in to wake her up
or
Calling Jamaica up.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Calmin' in Jamaica
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Canopies of black eyed peas.
A can of beans or black eyed peas.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Caught in Jamaica
or
Calling Jamaica.
Call me when you try to wake her.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Coffee shop and bakery
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Coinage of Abraham
Call me to wake her up
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Cola and Chow Mein for her.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Colder men tried to make me up.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Colin Chaccawaica
Call me when you try to wake her up
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Colin should wait for her.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Colin's a baker.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Come 'n' eat Jamaican bread.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Come again, try to w*nk her up.
or
Come again, chide a vega.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Come and beat Jamaica up.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Come and eat your bacon now
Call me when you try to wake her up
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Come and eat your bacon up.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Come and eat your bacon.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Come and eat your bagel, now.
Call me when you try to wake her.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Come and get your bacon, eh!
Call me when you try to wake her.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Come in here and try to wake her up.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Come in to wake her up.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Come in, Cheryl Baker.
Call me when you try to wake her.
R.E.M's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Come meet your maker
Call me when you try to wake her up
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Come mucha arveja
Call me when you try to wake her up.
The misheard line means "Eat a lot of peas" in Spanish.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Come on in and try to wake it up.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Come on in sha bake a lot
Call me when you try to wake her up
I hadn't realised until today I'd actually no idea what was being sung. Your site saved my sanity!
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Come on in, Cheryl Baker.
Call me when you try to wake her (up).
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Come to Jamaica, mon.
Call me when you try wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Comedy cha weya
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Comedy try to break her
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Commie Tammy Fay Baker
or
Comin' in 'Ciao, Baker'
or
Comin' in 'Ciao, Baker'
Call me when you try to wake her
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Comin' in to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Coming in Cheryl Baker
Call me when you try to wake her.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Coming to Jamaica
Call me when you try to wake her up
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Communists in Jamaica
Call me when you try to wake her.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Communists shall wake her.
Call me when you try wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Coney to Baker
Call me when you try wake her up.
The misheard lyrics is code for "1 police officer to radio to another".
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Conin shall wake her up
Call me when you try to wake her up
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Connie Chung Baker
Call me when you try to wake her.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Connie Chung wakes up.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Cony to Baker
Call me when you try wake her up.
R.E.M's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Don't even try to wake her up
Call me when you try to wake her up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Don't even try to wake her up
Call me when you try to wake her up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Don't you try to wake it up.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Don’t eat your Baker
Call me when you try to wake her up
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Go and pick a coconut.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Goin' to Jamaica.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
Editor's note: The official title of this song is "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite", yet I keep seeing variants. Please be consistent, thank you very much.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Going to Jamaica.
Call me when you try to wake her.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Going to the bakery
Call me when you try to wake her up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Hole in Jamaica
Call me when you try wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Holy Jamaica!
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Holy Jamaican
Call me to wake her up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Homely Chad Weaver
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Homey didn't try to wake her up.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Horny child maker
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
I just keep on standing up
Only Cheryl Baker does.
I can always sleep standing up
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
I keep always expending up
Call me Cheryl Baker.
I can always sleep standing up
Call me when you try to wake her.
R.E.M's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
I'm going to rape her.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
If I don't pig 'em
If I don't pick up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Johnny can't wake up
Call me when you try to wake her up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Jolene Chadderwaker
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Micro trabeculae
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Oh little child, wake her up
Call me when you try to wake her up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Onions and wee-killer
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Only Che Guevara
Call me when you wake her up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Only Cheryl Baker
Only to wake her up
Rem's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Only Chuck Yeager
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Only Chud Baker
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Only Jamaica
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Only Tom Baker
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Only child, wake her up.
Only child, wake her
Call me when you try to wake her up.
Call me when you try to wake her.
R.E.M's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Only child, wake her up.
Only child, wake her
Call me when you try to wake her up.
Call me when you try to wake her
R.E.M's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Only in Jamaica mon
Call me when you try to wake her up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Only in Jamaica, hah
Call me when you try to wake her up
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Only in Jamaica, mon.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Only in Jamaica
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Only shall waken her
or
Only shall waken in her.
Call me when you try to wake her.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Only taway ka-ha.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Only to beg her
Call me when you try to wake her
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Only tried to wake her up
Call me when you try to wake her up
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Only when you try Jamaica
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Or a green egg by Dr. Seuss
Or a reading by Dr. Seuss
R.E.M's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Or a paedophile Dr. Seuss
And a reading of Dr. Seuss
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Polly, want a cracker
Call me when you try to wake her up
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Ponytail wiggler
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Problems, Lon Chaney? Break them up!
Call her and try to wake her up.
R.E.M's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Promise I'd wait for her
Call me when you try to wake her
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
The sidewinder sleeps in his bath.
The sidewinder sleeps on his back.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
The sidewinder sleeps in his bed.
The sidewinder sleeps on his back.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
The sidewinder sleeps in his pants.
The sidewinder sleeps on his back.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
The sidewinder sleeps in his path
The sidewinder sleeps on his back
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
The sidewinder sleeps, sleeps, sleeps in a choir.
The sidewinder sleeps, sleeps, sleeps in a coil.
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
The sidewinder sleeps, sleeps, sleeps in the corner
The sidewinder sleeps, sleeps, sleeps in a coil
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Fryin' up some back-bacon
or
Tokin' on some Jamaican
or
Tokin' on some Jamaican
Call me when you try to wake her
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Tommy trouble maker
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Tony Chawayga ga ga.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Tony Chowbaker
Call me when you try to wake her up
R.E.M.'s,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Tony Jamaica
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Tony and Cheryl Baker.
or
A cone and Cheryl Baker.
or
Call in Cheryl Baker.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Tony shall wait for her.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Tony shot a baker now.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
R.E.M's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Tony tried raping her
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Tony's a baker er
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
Trouble in Jamaica
Call me when you try to wake her up.
REM's,
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"
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