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1950s | |
Dinah Washington's, "What a Difference a Day Makes"
Misheard Lyrics: What a difference Today makes
or What a difference a state makes Original Lyrics: What a difference a day makes
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The Coasters', "Charlie Brown"
Misheard Lyrics: That Chinese clown
Original Lyrics: That Charlie Brown
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1970s | |
ABBA's, "The Name of the Game"
Misheard Lyrics: Once you say you're gay
Original Lyrics: What's the name of the game?
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Cat Stevens', "Lady D'Arbanville"
Misheard Lyrics: My Lady Ka-Bambi
Original Lyrics: My Lady D'Arbanville
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Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: "Decadent cake" she says, just like Marie Antoinette
Original Lyrics: "Let them eat cake" she says, just like Marie Antoinette
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Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: A milk man from China.
Original Lyrics: Met a man from China.
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Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: Building a Reveille for Kruschev and Kennedy
Original Lyrics: A built-in remedy for Kruschev and Kennedy
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Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: Carbide and turpentine
Original Lyrics: Gunpowder, gelatine
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Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: Goodbye to cheddar cheese.
Original Lyrics: Gunpowder, gelatine.
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Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: Got five hundred jelly beans
Original Lyrics: Gunpowder, gelatine
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Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: Got my virginity, dynamite with a laser bean.
Original Lyrics: Gun powder, gelatine, dynamite with a laser beam.
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Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: Gun powder and turpentine
Original Lyrics: Gun powder, gelatine
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Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: Gunpowder, eternity, dynamite it will make you gleam.
Original Lyrics: Gunpowder, gelatine, dynamite with a laser beam.
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Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: Little man from China went down the gay vagina
Original Lyrics: Met a man from China, went down to Geisha Minah
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Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: Met a man-vagina bent down to Geisha Minor
Original Lyrics: Met a man from China went down to Geisha Minor
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Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: Perfume came naturally from Paris,
From guys she couldn't care less Original Lyrics: Perfume came naturally from Paris,
For cars she couldn't care less |
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: Recommended underpants, insatiable an appetite
Original Lyrics: Recommended at the price, insatiable an appetite
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Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: She keeps a moo and a scandal in a pretty cabinet
Flip any case she says just like Murray Antoinette. Original Lyrics: She keeps her Moet et Chandon in her pretty cabinet
'Let them eat cake' she says just like Marie Antoinette. |
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: She keeps a moo and a shandal in a pretty cabinet
Flip any case she says just like Murray Antoinette. Original Lyrics: She keeps her Moet et Chandon in her pretty cabinet
'Let them eat cake' she says just like Marie Antoinette. |
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: She keeps a' my way of shining, in a pretty cabinet
Original Lyrics: She keeps Moet et Chandon, in a pretty cabinet
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Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: She keeps her Mo, Anna, Sean Doe
In a pretty cabinet "Rightfully cake" she says, just like Marie Antoinette Original Lyrics: She keeps Moet and Chandon in her pretty cabinet
"Let them eat cake" she says, Just like Marie Antoinette |
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: She keeps mooing in Schaumburg
Original Lyrics: She keeps Moet et Chandon
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Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: She's a Killer Queen, got by the jellybean
Dinomite and the lazerbeam Gaurented to blow your mind, anytime Original Lyrics: She's a Killer Queen, gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam Guaranteed to blow your mind, anytime |
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: She's a killer Queen - got fine agility,
Dynamite with a laser beam. Original Lyrics: She's a killer Queen - gunpowder, gelatine,
Dynamite with a laser beam. |
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: She's a killer Queen, goodbye to gelatine
Original Lyrics: She's a killer Queen, gunpowder, gelatine
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Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: She's a killer Queen, not bad at Jeopardy
Original Lyrics: She's a killer Queen, gunpowder gelatine
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Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: She's a killer Queen. Somebody cut the cheese
Dynamite with a laser beam Original Lyrics: She's a killer Queen gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam |
Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: Temporarily out of time.
Original Lyrics: Temporarily out of gas.
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Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: Welfare stan etiquette
Original Lyrics: Well versed in etiquette
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Queen's, "Killer Queen"
Misheard Lyrics: Well first Connecticut
Original Lyrics: Well-versed in etiquette
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Queen's, "Spread Your Wings"
Misheard Lyrics: Come on, darling, flap it, man!
Original Lyrics: Come on, honey, fly with me
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Queen's, "Spread Your Wings"
Misheard Lyrics: Come on, darling, fly with me
Original Lyrics: Come on, honey, fly with me
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1980s | |
Foreigner's, "Jukebox Hero"
Misheard Lyrics: Jukebox hero got sties in his eyes
Original Lyrics: Jukebox hero got stars in his eyes
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Lionel Richie's, "All Night Long (All Night)"
Misheard Lyrics: Go away, work to be done
Original Lyrics: Throw away the work to be done
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Queen's, "Hammer to Fall"
Misheard Lyrics: Maybe, now your struggles all fade
Original Lyrics: Baby, now your struggle's all vain
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Rockwell's, "Somebody’s Watching Me"
Misheard Lyrics: I always feel like somebody’s touching me
Original Lyrics: I always feel like somebody’s watching me
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1990s | |
Queen's, "Let Me Live"
Misheard Lyrics: Why don't you take another little peace of my small?
Original Lyrics: Why don't you take another little piece of my soul?
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Queen's, "Too Much Love Will Kill You"
Misheard Lyrics: And the pain will make you blazing
You're the victim of your cry Original Lyrics: And the pain will make you crazy
You're the victim of your crime |
Queen's, "Too Much Love Will Kill You"
Misheard Lyrics: And the pain will make you blazing
You're the victim of your crying Original Lyrics: And the pain will make you crazy
You're the victim of your crime |
The Wonders', "That Thing You Do!"
Misheard Lyrics: Don't mean to be cool
or Don't mean to be crude Original Lyrics: Don't mean to be cruel
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‘N Sync's, "I Want You Back"
Misheard Lyrics: I told you not to lullay
Original Lyrics: I told you not to worry
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2000s | |
La Roux's, "Bulletproof"
Misheard Lyrics: This time baby I’ll be baaaabe proof
Original Lyrics: This time baby I'll be bulletproof
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Radiohead's, "Pyramid Song"
Misheard Lyrics: I jumped into the Wiggles
Original Lyrics: I jumped into the river
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2010s | |
Miguel's, "Sure Thing"
Misheard Lyrics: A Big Mac, nipple gotta slip yeah
Original Lyrics: You could bet that
Never got to sweat that |
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