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Blue Oyster Cult, "Don't Fear The Reaper"
Misheard Lyrics:
Laid the backboard they said she'd buy
(Become like they all)
Original Lyrics:
They looked backward and said goodbye
(She had become like they are)
The background vocal (in brackets) begins one note before the foreground vocal ends, so they overlap in that one spot, hence the mishearing.

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