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1950s | |
1960s | |
Ohio Express', "Yummy Yummy Yummy"
Misheard Lyrics: Yadda-yadda-yadda
Original Lyrics: Yummy yummy yummy
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1970s | |
Amii Stewart's, "Knock on Wood"
Misheard Lyrics: You better not, not, not, oh no
Original Lyrics: You better knock, knock, knock on wood
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Bee Gees', "Night Fever"
Misheard Lyrics: I got hair in my pants. I can't hide it when I'm walkin'
I'm gonna comb it in the dark, in the mornin' Original Lyrics: I got fire in my mind. I get higher in my walking.
And I'm glowing in the dark I give you warning. |
Cast of "Joseph" 's, "Go Go Go, Joseph"
Misheard Lyrics: You and your dreams go ahead of your time.
Original Lyrics: You and your dreamcoat ahead of your time.
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Cyndi Grecco's, "Making Our Dreams Come True"
Misheard Lyrics: Going the wrong way
Original Lyrics: Doing it our way
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Elvin Bishop's, "Fooled Around and Fell in Love"
Misheard Lyrics: I put her on the radio
Original Lyrics: I fooled around and fell in love
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Roberta Flack's, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
Misheard Lyrics: The first time ever I saw Japan
Original Lyrics: The first time ever I saw your face
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The Bellamy Brothers', "Let Your Love Flow"
Misheard Lyrics: So wishy-washy
Original Lyrics: So let your love flow
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1980s | |
AC/DC's, "Thunderstruck"
Misheard Lyrics: It was cold, in the middle of a railroad ta-ank
(Thun-der!!) Original Lyrics: I was caught in the middle of a railroad track
(Thun-der!!) |
Gary Portnoy's, "Where Everybody Knows Your Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Traffic is all but sane
or Traffic is all insane Original Lyrics: Our troubles are all the same
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Juice Newton's, "The Sweetest Thing"
Misheard Lyrics: Stealing your ass
Original Lyrics: Still in your eyes
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Men at Work's, "Down Under"
Misheard Lyrics: I come from a random number
Original Lyrics: I come from a land down under
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Midnight Oil's, "Power and the Passion"
Misheard Lyrics: Holiday passion
Original Lyrics: Power and the passion
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Nena's, "Feuer und Flamme"
Misheard Lyrics: My answers all packed in
Original Lyrics: Mein herz ist aus papier
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Rick Springfield's, "Love Is Alright Tonite"
Misheard Lyrics: Speed Stick, Speed Stick by Mennen, by Mennen
Original Lyrics: Second by second by minute by minute
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The Police's, "Every Breath You Take"
Misheard Lyrics: Baby baby pee
Original Lyrics: Baby, baby, please
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Wang Chung's, "Everybody Have Fun Tonight"
Misheard Lyrics: Everybody high five tonight
Original Lyrics: Everybody have fun tonight
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1990s | |
Citizen King's, "Better Days"
Misheard Lyrics: I've seen Saturday
Original Lyrics: I've seen better days
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Domino's, "Getto Jam"
Misheard Lyrics: Billy Ocean, Billy Ocean
Original Lyrics: Here we go, here we go
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Duran Duran's, "Ordinary World"
Misheard Lyrics: Here beside the news of holy war and holy me,
Ours is just a little sorrow. Original Lyrics: Here beside the news of holy war and holy need,
Ours is just a little sorrowed talk. |
Duran Duran's, "Ordinary World"
Misheard Lyrics: Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed,
Here today, and not tomorrow. Original Lyrics: Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed,
Fear today, forgot tomorrow. |
Duran Duran's, "Ordinary World"
Misheard Lyrics: There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have defined. Original Lyrics: There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find. |
Fugees', "Killing Me Softly"
Misheard Lyrics: Strumming my hate with his penguins
Original Lyrics: Strumming my pain with his fingers
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Joan Osborne's, "One of Us"
Misheard Lyrics: And well, well, hottest day
Original Lyrics: And yeah, yeah, God is great
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Rage Against the Machine's, "Testify"
Misheard Lyrics: The music ran to me
Original Lyrics: The movie ran through me
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Smashing Pumpkins', "Disarm"
Misheard Lyrics: Disown you with a style
Original Lyrics: Disarm you with a smile
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2000s | |
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals', "Steal My Kisses"
Misheard Lyrics: Apple Mac in Nashville, TN
Original Lyrics: I pulled into Nashville, TN
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Rihanna's, "Don't Stop the Music"
Misheard Lyrics: Cecil's got the music
Original Lyrics: Please don't stop the music
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Sean Paul's, "Temperature"
Misheard Lyrics: I got the right baby shark
Original Lyrics: I got the right temperature
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Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell Williams', "Drop It Like It's Hot"
Misheard Lyrics: Chocolate like it's hard
Original Lyrics: Drop it like it's hot
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Train's, "Meet Virginia"
Misheard Lyrics: I don't really wanna be a creep
Original Lyrics: I don't really wanna be the queen
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2010s | |
Justin Moore's, "Til My Last Day"
Misheard Lyrics: Til my last dick
Original Lyrics: Til my last day
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Sabaton's, "The Lost Battalion"
Misheard Lyrics: A battalion is lost, and they are gone.
Original Lyrics: A battalion is lost in the Argonne.
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country | |
Jason Aldean's, "My Kinda Party"
Misheard Lyrics: She'll be rockin' them roller chains
Original Lyrics: She’s a rockin' them holey jeans.
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Shania Twain's, "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!"
Misheard Lyrics: Really going to Wildwood
Original Lyrics: Really go wild
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