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Some songs have titles that aren't used in the lyrics, and end up becoming better known for their lyrics than their title. Bob Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" is better known for the refrain "Everybody must get stoned" than it is for the title.

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Comments & Submittor Name
Keith West Excerpt from a teenage opera Song well known as "Grocer Jack". Song was supposed to have been in a show that never quite got off the ground. - Les Freeman
Kelly Clarkson Judas i couldn't see, i couldn't see how you deceived, you deceived i never thought you'd do that to me - thelastaurora
The Kingston Trio Bad Man's Blunder Opening lines are "Well, early one evening I was strollin' around. / I was feelin' kinda mean -- I shot a deputy down." That act of shooting a deputy down is further referred to at least two more times in the lyrics, making "I shot a deputy down" probably the best know lyrics in the song. The song could quite possibly be better known by that than by the actual title, which is nowhere found in the lyrics. - Regina Olsen
The Kinks Two Sisters This song should be known as 'Jealous of her Sister'. - Paul Warren
Korn Trash "trash" never been used as lyrics..but in the lyrics, theres this line which can be refered 2 this word.. "im sorry, I just throw you away" - NoVa
KoRn Clown The video (very briefly) shows a clown, but that word never appears in the lyrics. - Jonathan S.
Kristin Chenoweth The Christmas Waltz "Frosted window panes, Candles gleaming inside, / Painted candy canes on the tree" are the opening lines. So an alternate title might be "Frosted Window Panes". The phrase "The Christmas waltz" is never in the lyrics, and neither is the word "waltz". - Kris Kringle Aguilera
Kyu Sakamoto/A Taste Of Honey Sukiyaki The original Japanese title was "Ue o muite arukō". But the British record company that released a 1963 cover by Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen changed it to "Sukiyaki". Capitol Records decided to keep the "Sukiyaki" name when they re-released Sakamoto's version the same year. A Taste of Honey redid the melody with English lyrics that were different from the original interpretation of the Japanese version. This version hit #1 on the Billboard charts in 1981. Of course, none of these versions has the word "sukiyaki" in the song's lyrics. - Soul II

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