# Good God.  Fuckin up a bands lyrics should be illegal.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-fuckin-up-a-bands-lyrics-should-be-illegal/144738>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 24, 2002, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-fuckin-up-a-bands-lyrics-should-be-illegal/144738 "2002-12-24T17:22:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![fishcrawford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/85f322/32.png) [@fishcrawford](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishcrawford)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-fuckin-up-a-bands-lyrics-should-be-illegal/144738/1 "2002-12-24T17:22:02Z")

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I use yahoo to find some lyrics for Nirvana and Sublime. Lo and behold half of the lyrics are blatantly wrong. Does anyone know some good sites for lyrics?..cuz these are shit.

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**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-fuckin-up-a-bands-lyrics-should-be-illegal/144738/2 "2002-12-24T17:53:38Z")

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Just run a search on google…band name + lyrics. It will show you lots of lyrics pages.

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**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-fuckin-up-a-bands-lyrics-should-be-illegal/144738/3 "2002-12-24T18:02:34Z")

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Yeah! If you’re going to plaigarize, it should be a crime to get it wrong!

Or something.

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**Author:** ![Kaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Kaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaf)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-fuckin-up-a-bands-lyrics-should-be-illegal/144738/4 "2002-12-24T18:14:02Z")

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Well you always use this [handy reference](http://www.kissthisguy.com/) this to find the correct lyrics.

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**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-fuckin-up-a-bands-lyrics-should-be-illegal/144738/5 "2002-12-24T19:17:02Z")

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It should be noted, though, that some bands (like Sublime) alter their lyrics a lot. I don’t think Brad Nowell ever sang the same song twice the same way. The lyrics on the web site may not reflect the album version of the song, but they might match a live version somewhere.

[www.sing365.com](http://www.sing365.com) has pretty good lyrics, most of the time. Not a wide variety of bands, though.

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Justin