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1970s | |
ABBA's, "Angeleyes"
Misheard Lyrics: Look into his patient eyes
Original Lyrics: Look into his angeleyes
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Bee Gees', "You Should Be Dancing"
Misheard Lyrics: What you doing in a discotheque?
Original Lyrics: What you doing on your back?
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Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young's, "Woodstock"
Misheard Lyrics: Said, "I'm going down to Lester's Pond"
Original Lyrics: Said, "I'm going down to Yasgur's Farm"
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Elton John's, "Your Song"
Misheard Lyrics: How wonderful I fizz while you're in the world
Original Lyrics: How wonderful life is while you're in the world
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Elton John's, "Your Song"
Misheard Lyrics: I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind That I wrote down in words How wonderful life is when you're in the woods.
Original Lyrics: I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind That I put down in words How wonderful life is while you're in the world.
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Elton John's, "Your Song"
Misheard Lyrics: I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, Put my foot down on a worm
Original Lyrics: I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, That I put down in words
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Elton John's, "Your Song"
Misheard Lyrics: I sat on the roof, and kicked off for Mars
Original Lyrics: I sat on the roof, and kicked off the moss
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Elton John's, "Your Song"
Misheard Lyrics: If I was a sculptor, or a renegade gnome
Original Lyrics: If I was a sculptor, but then again, no
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Elton John's, "Your Song"
Misheard Lyrics: If I was a skeleton, but then again, no, Or a man who makes cushions in a traveling show
Original Lyrics: If I was a sculptor, but then again, no, Or a man who makes potions in a traveling show
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Elton John's, "Your Song"
Misheard Lyrics: If I were a sculptor, or then again - no; Or a man who makes cushions in a travelling show (Later) I sat on the roof and kicked off Kate Moss - For a few of her verses had got me quite cross
Original Lyrics: If I were a sculptor, or then again - no; Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show (Later) I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss Well, a few of the verses, well they got me quite cross
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Elton John's, "Your Song"
Misheard Lyrics: Those are the sweetest guys I've ever seen.
Original Lyrics: Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen.
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Elton John's, "Your Song"
Misheard Lyrics: You are the sweetest guy I've ever seen
Original Lyrics: Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen
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Kiss', "I Was Made for Lovin’ You"
Misheard Lyrics: Can’t you get in love with me?
Original Lyrics: Can’t you get enough of me?
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Seals And Crofts', "We May Never Pass This Way Again"
Misheard Lyrics: Please remember, pass this way again.
Original Lyrics: We may never pass this way again.
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Simon & Garfunkel's, "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Misheard Lyrics: That little shit does it two times a day
Original Lyrics: Like a bridge over troubled water
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1980s | |
Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start The Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: Bardot, Budapest, Alabama cruise jet, Princess Grace, 'Peyton Place', trouble in the Suez
Original Lyrics: Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev Princess Grace, 'Peyton Place', trouble in the Suez
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Kiss', "Heaven's on Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: Feel the heat,
Takin’ too far, Burning heat, Heaven’s on fire, Painful shots in desire, Angels die, Heaven’s on fire Original Lyrics: Feel my heat,
Takin' you higher, Burn with me, Heaven's on fire, Paint the sky with desire, Angel, fly, Heaven's on fire |
Raffi's, "Five Little Ducks"
Misheard Lyrics: Over the hills so far away
Original Lyrics: Over the hills and far away
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1990s | |
Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: And can you feel the Lion King tonight?
Original Lyrics: And can you feel the love tonight?
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Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: It's enough for this one-eyed bag o' bones
Original Lyrics: It's enough for this wide-eyed wanderer
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Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: It's enough to leave kids with a bag of bones
Bleeding very bad. Original Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
Believe the very best. |
Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: It's enough to make a king-sized bag of bombs
Original Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
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Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: It's enough to make cheese and crackers on
Original Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
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Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: It's enough to make king's and Megatron
Original Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
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Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and bag a bombs
Leave the therapist Original Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
Believe the very best |
Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and bag o' bones
Believe all they're there, yeah yeah Original Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
Believe the very best |
Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and bag of bones.
Original Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and vagabonds.
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Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and bag-of-bones
Believe the fairy-tale. Original Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
Believe the very best. |
Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and bag-of-bones
Lead the very best Original Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
Believe the very best |
Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and mega bombs.
Original Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and vagabonds.
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Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and pleated bond
Leave the prairie lands. Original Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
Believe the very best. |
Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
Bleed the very best. Original Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
Believe the very best. |
Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
Leave the fairy paths. Original Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
Believe the very best. |
Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
Leave the very best. or It's enough to make kings and vagabonds Live the very best. or It's enough to make kings and vagabonds Feed the very best. Original Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
Believe the very best. |
Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and veggie buns
Original Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
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Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: It's enough to make kings play racquetball
Original Lyrics: It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
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Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: It's enough to make wide eyed underwear
Original Lyrics: It's enough to make wide eyed wanderer
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Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: It's enough to make
Kings and mega buns, Believe in fairies breasts Original Lyrics: It's enough to make
Kings and vagabonds, Believe the very best |
Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: That the twisting kaleidoscope moves the sullen herd
Original Lyrics: That the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn
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Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: To the wild eyed doe
Original Lyrics: To the wild outdoors
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Elton John's, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
Misheard Lyrics: When the heat of the rolling wind can return the rain
Original Lyrics: When the heat of the rolling world can be turned away
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Spice Girls', "My Strongest Suit"
Misheard Lyrics: So bring me, I'm a thymus
Original Lyrics: So bring me, all my finest
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2000s | |
Green Day's, "American Idiot"
Misheard Lyrics: Don’t wanna be an American alien
Original Lyrics: Don’t wanna be an American idiot
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M&S Presents The Girl Next Door's, "Salsoul Nugget"
Misheard Lyrics: Are we in Canada?
Original Lyrics: But when it comes to
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Nelly Furtado's, "Turn Off The Light"
Misheard Lyrics: Bonnie Bonnie Bonnie down bourbon street
Original Lyrics: And I say follow me, follow me, follow me down, down, down, down
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Soulja Boy's, "Crank Dat Soulja Boy"
Misheard Lyrics: Haters get mad cause I got me some Baby Maes
Original Lyrics: Haters gettin' mad 'cause I got me some bathing apes.
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2010s | |
Taylor Swift's, "Blank Space"
Misheard Lyrics: 'Cause we argue for reckless
Original Lyrics: 'Cause we're young and we're reckless
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country | |
Lonestar's, "What About Now"
Misheard Lyrics: Why should we hate?
Original Lyrics: Why should we wait?
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