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1960s | |
B.J. Thomas', "Hooked on a Feeling"
Misheard Lyrics: Life Savers sweet as candy
Original Lyrics: Lips are sweet as candy
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Tommy James and the Shondells', "Mony Mony"
Misheard Lyrics: Happy birthday
Original Lyrics: Mony mony
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1970s | |
Blondie's, "Heart Of Glass"
Misheard Lyrics: Once I had a love and it was a blast
Soon turned out, beep in the ass Original Lyrics: Once I had a love and it was a blast
Soon turned out to be a pain in the ass |
Cher's, "Half Breed"
Misheard Lyrics: She's no grizzly one
Original Lyrics: She's no good they warned
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Commodores', "Brick House"
Misheard Lyrics: Just letting it all rain down
Original Lyrics: Just letting it all hang out
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Elton John's, "Philadelphia Freedom"
Misheard Lyrics: BMW freedom
Original Lyrics: Philadelphia freedom
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Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes', "The Love I Lost"
Misheard Lyrics: The lock I locked
Original Lyrics: The love I lost
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Janis Joplin's, "Me and Bobby McGee"
Misheard Lyrics: Good enough when me and my mommy agree
Original Lyrics: Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee
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The Commodores', "Brick House"
Misheard Lyrics: Who's built like a mecha lizard
Original Lyrics: Who's built like a black Amazon
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1980s | |
Air Supply's, "Even the Nights are Better"
Misheard Lyrics: Even the days of Friday
Original Lyrics: Even the days are brighter
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Air Supply's, "Making Love Out of Nothing At All"
Misheard Lyrics: Alan Alda at home
Original Lyrics: Out of nothing at all
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Air Supply's, "Two Less Lonely People in the World"
Misheard Lyrics: Looking for the love that never came to L.A.
Original Lyrics: Looking for the love that never came my way
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Air Supply's, "Young Love"
Misheard Lyrics: Lately all my tots have gone to you
Original Lyrics: Lately all my thoughts have gone to you
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Dire Straits', "Twisting By the Pool"
Misheard Lyrics: Tristan by the pool
Original Lyrics: Twistin' by the pool
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Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson's, "I Know Him So Well"
Misheard Lyrics: Looking back, I could have played it differently
Do you really think so, oh! Learned about the man before I planned I was just a little girl, yes Original Lyrics: Looking back, I could have played it differently
I could have played it some other way Learned about the man before I fell I was just a little careless |
Matthew Wilder's, "Break My Stride"
Misheard Lyrics: I would get her
Original Lyrics: I would tell her
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Prince's, "1999"
Misheard Lyrics: I was 3D when I wrote this
Original Lyrics: I was dreaming when I wrote this
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Prince's, "1999"
Misheard Lyrics: I was peeing as I wrote this
Original Lyrics: I was dreaming when I wrote this
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Prince's, "Raspberry Beret"
Misheard Lyrics: She loves a masquerade
or She loves to masturbate Original Lyrics: She wore a raspberry beret
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Prince's, "Raspberry Beret"
Misheard Lyrics: She really loves cherry purée
Original Lyrics: She wore a raspberry beret
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Prince's, "When Doves Cry"
Misheard Lyrics: Bigger than a picture
Original Lyrics: Dig if you will the picture
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Prince's, "When Doves Cry"
Misheard Lyrics: Bigger than the picture
Original Lyrics: Dig if you will the picture
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Toto's, "Girl Goodbye"
Misheard Lyrics: F*** me in the way that's right
Original Lyrics: Must be in the way that she cries
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1990s | |
Bryan Adams', "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"
Misheard Lyrics: Surgical
Original Lyrics: Search your heart
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Dubstar's, "Not So Manic Now"
Misheard Lyrics: I was making myself the usual puppetry
Original Lyrics: I was making myself the usual cup of tea
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Hootie & the Blowfish's, "Hold My Hand"
Misheard Lyrics: The babysitter can
Original Lyrics: The best that I can
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Hootie & the Blowfish's, "Only Wanna Be with You"
Misheard Lyrics: You can call me a bull
Original Lyrics: You can call me a fool
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Hootie & the Blowfish's, "Only Wanna Be with You"
Misheard Lyrics: You can call me uncle
Original Lyrics: You can call me a fool
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Journey's, "When You Love a Woman"
Misheard Lyrics: Many love a walnut
Original Lyrics: When you love a woman
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Louise's, "Light of My Life"
Misheard Lyrics: But I never lose my feet
Original Lyrics: But I never lose my faith
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Neneh Cherry's, "I've Got You Under My Skin"
Misheard Lyrics: Neneh Cherry noticed slurry
Original Lyrics: Neneh Cherry knows the story
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Nirvana's, "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm an apple, I'm a rhino, I'm just scared of Anna's penis
Original Lyrics: A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido
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TV Show Scripts', "Teletubbies"
Misheard Lyrics: F****t, f****t. F****t, f****t. F****t, f****t.
Bite my butt. Original Lyrics: Fidit, fidit Fidit, fidit Fidit, fidit
Mon, mon, mon |
Tevin Campbell's, "Can We Talk"
Misheard Lyrics: Candy pop for a nickel
Original Lyrics: Can we talk for a minute?
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Warren G and Nate Dogg's, "Regulate"
Misheard Lyrics: I said, "Ooh, I like your socks!"
or I said, "Ooh, I like your stove!" Original Lyrics: I said, "Ooh, I like your size!"
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2000s | |
Janet Jackson's, "All for You"
Misheard Lyrics: All the guys are funny
Original Lyrics: All the guys at the party
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Spice Girls', "Holler"
Misheard Lyrics: I love you, Harry Potter
Original Lyrics: I wanna make you holler
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country | |
Lainey Wilson's, "Country's Cool Again"
Misheard Lyrics: Everybody wanna be a cowboy
Drive a jumbo with a John Deere Everybody want a backwoods front porch With a tub full of iced-down beer Must be something in the water, pull it out of the holler Ooh, Barbara must have gotten her wish Doggone, that woman didn't see that coming Country's cool again Original Lyrics: Everybody wanna be a cowboy
Drive a jon boat, whip a John Deere Everybody want a backwoods front porch With a tub full of iced-down beer Must be something in the water flowing out of the holler Blue collar musta caught a new wind Doggone, dadgum it, didn't see that coming Country's cool again |
Lee Ann Womack's, "I Hope You Dance"
Misheard Lyrics: Tell me is it really a Barnes & Noble?
Original Lyrics: Time is a wheel in constant motion
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