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Song names are sorted by first letter, excluding A and The. This is sorted by song title only, not by song title and performer. So if two different performers preformed the same song, you'll see misheard lyrics for both on the same page (provided the song title was spelt the same both times, and misheard lyrics have been submitted for both!).


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The Royal Guardsmen's, "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron"
The Misheard Lyrics:
80 men drive and 80 men died
The Real Lyrics:
80 men tried and 80 men died
The Story: At the time, I thought it was a crash test! - Submitted by: Cody Finke
The Royal Guardsmen's, "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Aim and dive, try to end that spree
The Real Lyrics:
Eighty men died tryin' to end that spree
The Story: Actually, I think my lyrics are more fitting--although I did find out that, according to the 'Book of Lists' (1977), that Rittmeister Manfred von Richtofen did shoot down 80 (Allied) planes in World War I--before being killed himself (not by Snoopy, of course--Good Grief!!) - Submitted by: Doug Montgomery
The Royal Guardsmen's, "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The bunny-rat baron
The Real Lyrics:
The bloody-red baron
The Story: When I was a kid, we had this song on K-Tel's "Goofy Greats" record. I had a cassette player and I taped this song, with me saying "The bunny-rat baron". Even to this day, if my mom's around and this song comes on the radio, she reminds me of it! - Submitted by: Jimmy
The Royal Guardsmen's, "Snoopy's Christmas"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And then with a roar they were both on their way
It's snowin' made meat on some other day.
or
Eat snow and made meat on some other day.
or
As no one made meat on some other day.
The Real Lyrics:
And then with a roar they were both on their way
Each knowing they'd meet on some other day
The Story: I was very young when I first heard this and it was hard to understand even simple lines to some songs. The song was probably pretty newly recorded back then. The above mishearings are examples of how I struggled to understand the lines above. At that age I wasn't used to lines of songs always making much sense to me, so I was hardly deterered from hearing all those versions of the line by the fact that they make little sense. Just today, with Christmas of 2004 approaching, I heard this on a radio station playiing all Christmas songs. Now as a grown up, I easily heard they real lyrics here and at last made sense of the lines in question! - Submitted by: Jill McCord
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