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1970s | |
ABBA's, "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)"
Misheard Lyrics: Gimme, gimme, gimme a man and a pizza
Original Lyrics: Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight
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ABBA's, "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)"
Misheard Lyrics: Gimme, gimme, gimme an elephant midwife
Original Lyrics: Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight
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ABBA's, "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)"
Misheard Lyrics: Gimme, gimme, gimme, I'm mad about midnight
Won't somebody help me Chase these chariots somewhere? or Won't somebody help me chase these chariots away? Original Lyrics: Gimme, gimme, gimme, a man after midnight
Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away? |
ABBA's, "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)"
Misheard Lyrics: Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie I'll have some meat now
Original Lyrics: Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight
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ABBA's, "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)"
Misheard Lyrics: Order pizza outside the window
Original Lyrics: Autumn winds blowing outside the window
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ABBA's, "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)"
Misheard Lyrics: Take me through the doctor's to the ring on the bed
Original Lyrics: Take me through the darkness to the break of the day
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ABBA's, "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)"
Misheard Lyrics: There's not a soul out there, no-one to feel my breasts
Original Lyrics: There's not a soul out there, no one to hear my prayer
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B.J. Thomas', "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"
Misheard Lyrics: Because I drink
Original Lyrics: Because I'm free
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Bill Withers', "Lean on Me"
Misheard Lyrics: We believe somebody will relax
Original Lyrics: We all need somebody to lean on
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Elton John's, "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"
Misheard Lyrics: Too late to save myself from Paul Lynde
Original Lyrics: Too late to save myself from falling
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Elton John's, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics: A butterfly's a breed of fly
Original Lyrics: And butterflies are free to fly
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Elton John's, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics: A butterfly's a freedom fly.
Original Lyrics: And butterflies are free to fly.
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Elton John's, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics: And someone saved my life tonight, Sugar Bear
You almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear? Original Lyrics: And someone saved my life tonight, Sugar Bear
You almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear? |
Elton John's, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics: And someone saved my life tonight, should have been
Original Lyrics: And someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear
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Elton John's, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics: And someone shaved my legs tonight, Sugar Bear
Original Lyrics: And someone saved my life tonight, Sugar Bear
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Elton John's, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics: Auto bond, hypnotized
Original Lyrics: Altar-bound, hypnotized
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Elton John's, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics: Butterflies and Freedom Fries
Original Lyrics: Butterflies are free to fly
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Elton John's, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics: Butterflies are afraid of flies
Original Lyrics: Butterflies are free to fly
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Elton John's, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics: Clinging to your stocks and bonds,
Paying your H.P. dumbass forever. Original Lyrics: Clinging to your stocks and bonds,
Paying your H.P. demands forever. |
Elton John's, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics: I would've walked head on into the deep end of the river
Clinging to your stocks and bonds, Paying your H.P. enhanced forever. Original Lyrics: I would've walked head on into the deep end of the river
Clinging to your stocks and bonds, Paying your H.P. demands forever. |
Elton John's, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm sleeping with myself tonight, second time
Original Lyrics: I'm sleeping with myself tonight, saved in time
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Elton John's, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics: Playing your expedience man forever
Original Lyrics: Paying your H.P. demands forever
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Elton John's, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics: Someone saved my life tonight, s*** the bed
Original Lyrics: Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear
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Elton John's, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics: Someone saved my life tonight, she'll be there.
Original Lyrics: Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear.
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Elton John's, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics: Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bag.
Original Lyrics: Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear.
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Elton John's, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics: Someone shaved my wife tonight, sugar bear
Original Lyrics: Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear
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Elton John's, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics: When I think of those distant nights
Original Lyrics: When I think of those East End nights
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England Dan and John Ford Coley's, "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics: But there’s a warm wind blowin’ the stars around
Original Lyrics: But there's a warm wind blowing, the stars are out
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Paul McCartney's, "Maybe I'm Amazed"
Misheard Lyrics: Every night's amazing
Original Lyrics: Maybe I'm amazed
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1980s | |
ABBA's, "Lay All Your Love on Me"
Misheard Lyrics: And I possess him, it isn't nice
You heard me say that talking was my only vice. Original Lyrics: And I'm possessive, it isn't nice
You've heard me saying that smoking was my only vice. |
ABBA's, "Lay All Your Love on Me"
Misheard Lyrics: I pay per view
Original Lyrics: I beg of you
(Later) What can I do? |
ABBA's, "Lay All Your Love on Me"
Misheard Lyrics: It was like shooting a sitting duck
A little small duck, a smiling baby Irish duck Original Lyrics: It was like shooting a sitting duck
A little small talk, a smile and baby I was stuck |
Bruce Springsteen's, "Dancing in the Dark"
Misheard Lyrics: This tongue's a-tyin'
Original Lyrics: This gun's for hire
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Elton John's, "Blue Eyes"
Misheard Lyrics: Too wise, my baby's not too wise
Original Lyrics: Blue eyes, my baby's got blue eyes
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Eurythmics', "Love Is a Stranger"
Misheard Lyrics: And I want to
And I want to And I want to Suck this circumcision. Original Lyrics: And I want you
And I want you And I want you so It’s an obsession |
Lionel Richie's, "Say You, Say Me"
Misheard Lyrics: Sea-Doo, speedy
Original Lyrics: Say you, say me
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Madonna's, "Stay"
Misheard Lyrics: You, you gave my life some direction
And now I'm ready to stay Original Lyrics: You, you gave my life some direction
And now I'm ready to say |
Paul Young's, "Come Back and Stay"
Misheard Lyrics: Come back and stay for good this time
(Ego's endin' us) Original Lyrics: Come back and stay for good this time
(Ego, envy, lust) |
Prince's, "1999"
Misheard Lyrics: So tonight, I’m gonna party like it’s 1919
or So tonight, I'm gonna party like it’s 1939 Original Lyrics: So tonight, I’m gonna party like it’s 1999
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1990s | |
Ace of Base's, "Wheel of Fortune"
Misheard Lyrics: What'cha gonna tell your dummy?
Original Lyrics: What'cha gonna tell your daddy?
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Chumbawamba's, "Tubthumping"
Misheard Lyrics: I get no job,
Dagga dagga dak, Slimey always gets to you Original Lyrics: I get knocked down,
But I get up again You are never gonna keep me down |
Dishwalla's, "Counting Blue Cars"
Misheard Lyrics: Tell me all your thoughts of dog
Original Lyrics: Tell me all your thoughts on God
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Sophie B. Hawkins', "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover"
Misheard Lyrics: This low kickin' fantasy you black and blue
Original Lyrics: This monkey can't stand to see you black and blue
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2010s | |
Adele's, "Rolling in the Deep"
Misheard Lyrics: pigeon carnivore
Original Lyrics: Tears are going to fall
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Katy Perry's, "California Gurls "
Misheard Lyrics: California girls, we're unforgettable
Daisy Duke's bikini's on top Sunny kisses skin so hot, she melt your Popsicle Original Lyrics: California girls, we're unforgettable
Daisy dukes, bikinis on top Sun-kissed skin so hot, we'll melt your Popsicle |
OneRepublic's, "Counting Stars"
Misheard Lyrics: I've been nursing sick
Original Lyrics: I've been losing sleep
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xmas | |
Gene Autry's, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
Misheard Lyrics: Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
Had a very shiny nose And if you ever saw him You would seem to say it blows Original Lyrics: Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
Had a very shiny nose And if you ever saw it You would even say it glows |
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