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1960s | |
Cast of 'The Sound of Music''s, "Climb Every Mountain"
Misheard Lyrics: Climb every mountain, fall in every stream
Original Lyrics: Climb every mountain, ford every stream
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Cast of 'The Sound of Music''s, "Climb Every Mountain"
Misheard Lyrics: Climb every mountain, ford every stream
Follow every rainbow, till you find a bream A bream that will need all the love you can give Every day of your life for as long as you live Original Lyrics: Climb every mountain, ford every stream
Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream A dream that will need all the love you can give Every day of your life for as long as you live |
Cast of 'The Sound of Music''s, "Climb Every Mountain"
Misheard Lyrics: Follow every raindrop, till you find your dream
Original Lyrics: Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream
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Neil Sedaka's, "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"
Misheard Lyrics: Remember when you had the time?
Original Lyrics: Remember when you held me tight?
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1970s | |
ABBA's, "S.O.S."
Misheard Lyrics: Where are those appetites?
Original Lyrics: Where are those happy days?
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Boston's, "Peace of Mind"
Misheard Lyrics: Bitches coming much too slow
Original Lyrics: Future's coming much too slow
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Cat Stevens', "Another Saturday Night"
Misheard Lyrics: Another Saturday night and I ain't got no money
Original Lyrics: Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody
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Kool & the Gang's, "Hollywood Swinging"
Misheard Lyrics: What ya got to stay?
or What ya got to sing? Original Lyrics: What ya got to say?
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Peter Frampton's, "Show Me the Way"
Misheard Lyrics: I want you to shout "Hooray!"
Original Lyrics: I want you to show me the way
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Queen's, "We Are the Champions"
Misheard Lyrics: And bad mistakes, I've made a few,
I've have my share of fat chicks in bed But I've come through Original Lyrics: And bad mistakes, I've made a few,
I've have my share of sand kicked in my face But I've come through |
Talking Heads', "Cities"
Misheard Lyrics: Thief of London, Small City
Original Lyrics: Think of London, Small City
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The Cars', "Just What I Needed"
Misheard Lyrics: I guess you're just what I needed
Just what I needed, I needed Roosevelt to pee I guess you're just what I needed Just what I needed, I needed Roosevelt to pee Original Lyrics: I guess you're just what I needed
Just what I needed, I needed someone to feed I guess you're just what I needed Just what I needed, I needed someone to bleed |
The Police's, "Next to You"
Misheard Lyrics: All I want is to be Mr. You
or All I want is to be Mr. U Original Lyrics: All I want is to be next to you
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1980s | |
Anita Baker's, "Sweet Love"
Misheard Lyrics: Don't you ever go away, and always be this worry!
Original Lyrics: Don't you ever go away, and always be this way!
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Def Leppard's, "Pour Some Sugar on Me"
Misheard Lyrics: Play some Boggle, shake it up
Play some Boggle, play it out Original Lyrics: Take a bottle, shake it up
Crank a bubble, crank it up |
Kim Carnes', "Bette Davis Eyes"
Misheard Lyrics: Fill the bathtub just to please you
Original Lyrics: All the better just to please you
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Phil Collins', "Don't Lose My Number"
Misheard Lyrics: Ricky don't you lose that number
Original Lyrics: Billy, don't you lose my number
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U2's, "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
Misheard Lyrics: But is still having fun what I'm looking for
Original Lyrics: But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
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1990s | |
Backstreet Boys', "Larger Than Life"
Misheard Lyrics: All you people can't you see, can't you see
How you're losing touch with all reality Every time we're down you can make it right And that makes you large, get a life! Original Lyrics: All you people can't you see, can't you see
How your love is affecting our reality Every time we're down you can make it right And that makes you larger than life |
Bjork's, "Army Of Me"
Misheard Lyrics: And if you complain once more, you'll meet an arm in your knee
or And if you complain once more, you'll meet an arm in your teeth Original Lyrics: And if you complain once more, you'll meet an army of me
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Disney's The Lion King's, "Hakuna Matata"
Misheard Lyrics: It means no other
or It needs no other Original Lyrics: It means no worries
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Disney's The Lion King's, "Hakuna Matata"
Misheard Lyrics: Potato, potato
Original Lyrics: Hakuna Matata
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Let Loose's, "Best In Me"
Misheard Lyrics: I don't care if I sound kind of weird
Original Lyrics: I don't care if I sound kind of weak
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Madonna's, "Vogue"
Misheard Lyrics: Betty Grable, we love you
Original Lyrics: Bette Davis, we love you
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Manic Street Preachers', "Motorcycle Emptiness"
Misheard Lyrics: Everyone's a figment
Original Lyrics: Everyone's a victim
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Mark Morrison's, "Return of the Mack"
Misheard Lyrics: Return of the meme
Original Lyrics: Return of the mack
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No Doubt's, "Don't Speak"
Misheard Lyrics: Nose bleed, nose bleed, nose bleed, no
Original Lyrics: Don't speak, don't speak, don't speak, no
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Red Hot Chili Peppers', "Parallel Universe"
Misheard Lyrics: Grasshopper Sidewinder
And California Kate Original Lyrics: Christ, I'm a sidewinder
I'm a California king |
Smash Mouth's, "All Star"
Misheard Lyrics: So much to do, so much to see,
So much wrong with Nick from the Backstreets Original Lyrics: So much to do, so much to see,
So what's wrong with taking the back streets? |
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Take That's, "Back for Good"
Misheard Lyrics: But in the quota of my mind I celebrated glory but that was not to be
or But in the coda of my mind I celebrated glory but that was not to be Original Lyrics: But in the corner of my mind I celebrated glory but that was not to be
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The Real McCoy's, "Love & Devotion"
Misheard Lyrics: Tonight is the night when love shines so bright and we will be day and night, yeah.
Original Lyrics: Tonight is the night when love shines so bright and we will be reunited.
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Tom Cochrane's, "Life Is a Highway"
Misheard Lyrics: For more sinning, for the slip and slide
Original Lyrics: From Mozambique to those Memphis lights
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Tom Cochrane's, "Life Is a Highway"
Misheard Lyrics: Just tell us I'm from Survivor
Original Lyrics: Just tell us we're survivors
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Tom Petty's, "Free Fallin'"
Misheard Lyrics: Loves feces
or Loves Reese's or Loves cheeses or Loves cheese sauce or Loves pizza Original Lyrics: Loves Jesus
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Wet Wet Wet's, "Don't Want To Forgive Me Now"
Misheard Lyrics: She casts a spell so freely
Original Lyrics: She casts the spell then leaves me
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2000s | |
Bon Jovi's, "It's My Life"
Misheard Lyrics: Warren Harding likes The Open Highway
Ben Franklin said "I did it my way" or Warren Harding likes The Open Highway Abe Lincoln said "I did it my way" Original Lyrics: My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said "I did it my way" |
Fall Out Boy's, "20 Dollar Nose Bleed"
Misheard Lyrics: Have you ever wanted to disagree
And use Monistat 3 (later) Permanent Jack Flash or Permanent Jack Black or Permanent Jack Sprat (later) Call me Mr. Benadryl Original Lyrics: Have you ever wanted to disappear
And join a monastery (later) Permanent jet lag (later) Call me Mr. Benzedrine |
Janet Jackson's, "All for You"
Misheard Lyrics: All the guys at the party looking like Barney
Original Lyrics: All the guys at the party, look at that body
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John Mayer's, "Route 66"
Misheard Lyrics: Get Chick Hicks on Route 66!
Original Lyrics: Get your kicks on Route 66!
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The Wiggles', "Hot Potato"
Misheard Lyrics: Alka-Seltzer, Alka-Seltzer
Original Lyrics: Hot potato, hot potato
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2010s | |
Jason Derulo's, "Trumpets"
Misheard Lyrics: Every time the duke get undressed
Original Lyrics: Every time that you get undressed
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Jarren Benton's, "As You Are"
Misheard Lyrics: I pull up on n***as, I debone a bully
Original Lyrics: I pull up on n***as like Deebo the bully
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Eagles', "Please Come Home for Christmas"
Misheard Lyrics: No beef and pain
Original Lyrics: No grief and pain
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Elvis Presley's, "Blue Christmas"
Misheard Lyrics: Scooby-Doo is alright
or Judy Blume is alright or Maybe Bluey's alright Original Lyrics: You'll be doing alright
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Jose Feliciano's, "Feliz Navidad"
Misheard Lyrics: I wanna wish you a smelly Christmas
From the bottom of my farts Original Lyrics: I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
From the bottom of my heart |
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