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This page contains all the misheard lyrics for Ticket To Ride that have been submitted to this site and the old collection from inthe80s started in 1996.
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Before she gets her head in the sand
Before she gets to sayin' goodbye
Cheese got a ticket to rye
Cheese got a ticket to rye, eye, eye
Cheese got a ticket to rye
And she don't K.
My baby donkey
My baby donkey.
She's got a ticket to ride
She'a got a ticket to ri-i-ide
She's got a ticket to ride
And she don't care.
My baby don't care
My baby don't care.
He's got a ticket to write.
He's got a ticket to ride.
My baby donkey
My baby don't care.
My pee-pee don't care.
My baby don't care.
Shaba doo Right.
Shadow-twin light by me
She ought to think twice,
She ought to do right by me.
She's burnt the chicken to rawhide.
And she's got a ticket to ride.
She's got a Dickens to ride.
She's got a ticket to ride.
She's got a bigger giraffe.
She's got a ticket to ride.
She's got a checkered giraffe.
She's got a ticket to ride.
She's got a cheeky giraffe.
She's got a ticket to ride.
She's got a chicken giraffe
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a chicken on rye,
and she don't care
She's got a ticket to ride,
and she don't care
She's got a chicken on rye.
She's got a ticket to ride.
She's got a chicken to fry.
She's got a ticket to ride.
She's got a chicken to ride
and it's in my hair
She's got a ticket to ride
and she don't care
She's got a chicken to ride and a she-donkey.
She's got a ticket to ride and she don't care.
She's got a chicken to ride and she don't care
My baby donkey.
She's got a ticket to ride, and she don't care.
My baby don't care.
She's got a chicken to ride and she don't care
She's got a ticket to ride and she don't care
She's got a chicken to ride,
She's got a chicken to ride,
She's got a chicken to ride, and she don't care!
She's got a ticket to ride,
she's got a ticket to ride,
she's got a ticket to ride, and she don't care!
She's got a chicken to ride.
She's got a ticket to ride.
She's got a chicken to ride.
She's got a ticket to ride.
She's got a chicken to ride
And it's in my hair.
She's got a ticket to ride
And she don't care.
She's got a chicken to ride
It's in my hair.
Ahe's got a ticket to ride
And she don't care.
She's got a chicklet to ride
And she don't care
or
She's got a chicken too high
And she don't care
or
She's got Rickey too high
But she don't care.
She's got a ticket to ride
And she don't care.
She's got a d*** in her eye, and she don't care.
She's got a ticket to ride, and she don't care.
She's got a d*** in her eye
And it's got hair
My baby donkey.
She's got a ticket to ride
And she don't care
My baby don't care.
She's got a d*** to ride.
She's got a ticket to ride.
She's got a tick in her eye but she don't care
or
She's got a ticket to write, and she don't care
or
She's got a chicken to ride, and she don't care
or
She's got a chicken tonight, but she don't care
or
She's got a ticket to Rye,
and she don't care.
or
She's got a ticket to Rawhide,
and she don't care.
or
She's got a stinking giraffe
or
She's got a secret giraffe,
but she don't care
or
She's got a secret giraffe,
but she don't care
She's got a ticket to ride,
and she don't care
She's got a secret giraffe.
She's got a ticket to ride.
She's got a tick in her eye.
She's got a ticket to ride.
She's got a tick in her eye
She's got a tick in her eye
And she don't care.
He's got a ticket to ride
He's got a ticket to ride
And he don't care.
She's got a tick in her eye
She's got a ticket to ride.
She's got a tick in her hide.
She's got a ticket to ride.
She's got a ticket or pride
An' she don't get it.
She's got a ticket to ride
And she don't care.
She's got a ticket to Iraq.
She's got a ticket to ride.
She's got a ticket to Rawhide.
She's got a ticket to ride.
She's got a ticket to Risa
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to Rye,
and she don't care
She's got a ticket to ride, and she don't care
The following story appears to be false according to several Beatles authorities on the web: 'Ticket to Ride' is actually sung 'Ticket to Rye' as in, a city in England. The Beatles cut the record, it was confusing to U.S. audiences, the record execs changed the title and lyrics. The song was never re-recorded. Listen carefully--You hear NO 'd' sound in the word. Thus, Rye *isn't* a misheard lyric. This is according to Casey Kasem
She's got a ticket to ride, and she don't pay.
She's got a ticket to ride, and she don't care.
She's got a ticket to ride, the freedom train.
She's got a ticket to ride, and she don't care.
She's got a ticket to rye
And it's in my hand.
She's got a ticket to ride
And she don't care.
She's got a trick giraffe.
She's got a ticket to ride.
She's got her chicken to tight
And it's got hair!
She's got a ticket to ride
And she don't care!
She's gotta kick it to ride.
She's got a ticket to ride.
She's gotta take it in stride, but she don't care.
She's got a ticket to ride, and she don't care.
Chicken to ride
Ticket to ride
My pipi don't care
My baby don't care.
She said that livin' with me
I'm sad that livin' with me
She's got a chicken tonight
She's got a ticket to ride