Song lyrics you deliberately sing wrong

Cafe Society
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I have some songs where I sing the wrong words because it’s funnier that way.

Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More. The actual lyric is “Man is a giddy thing”, which I sing as “Man is a guinea pig”.

Florence and the Machine - What the Water Gave Me, instead of “pockets full of stones” I sing “pockets full of scones”.

I feel like there are probably some of these where a certain group of people has a modification to the lyrics, like singing “Root, root, root for the [insert your team name here]” in Take Me Out to the Ball Game - but probably more creative than that.

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“Hold me closer, Tony Danza!”

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Whiskey you’re the devil, you’re leading me astray
Over hills and mountains and to a Mary Kay.

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Are you reeling in the years?
Stowin’ away the time?
Are you gathering up the cheese?
Have you had enough wine?

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Adele - “Rolling in the sheep” instead of “Rolling in the deep.” I play a lot of Settlers of Catan.

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Smokey " …if you feel like giving me a lifetime of servility, I second that emotion…"

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“Don’t cry for me Ike and Tina…”

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“I’ll never dance with her mother (ewww!)
Since I saw her standing there.”

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“All you need is blah”

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AC/DC

“And she was faking it with you”

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I don’t care what anyone says, it’s “wrapped up like a douche.”

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Billy Joel – She’s Got Oy Vey About Her

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Johnny Cash singing NIN’s ‘Hurt’

“What have I become, my Swedish friend?”

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The Doors - “Come on Baby bite my wire…”

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Anything that has been done Weird Al. I cannot hear the original without the parody version rattling around in my head. I usually end up singing the Al version loudly over the original one.

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One-ton tomato!
I eat a one-ton tomato.
One-ton tomaaaaaatoooo . . .

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The recent car commercial with Gangster Paradise playing in the background is the ONLY time I have EVER heard the original song. Amish Paradise was what I heard first, and what I will hear forever, no matter what’s actually playing. <3

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One ton of mayo…
Why not eat one ton of mayo…

Also, when J Geils’ Freeze Frame song came out, a Chicago station was big on parody songs, so when I hear it I sing “Faulklands!!” followed by sheep noises.

Same reason I think of firefighters when I hear Starship’s “Jane”. Poor Mayor Byrne; between that and Cabrini Green, she didn’t stand a chance. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Other fellas call me up for a date
But I just sit and wait
I’d rather masturbate for Johnny Angel…

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“You are like a hurricane./
There’s cum in your eyes”
— Neil Young - Like a Hurricane

“Dye! Dye my hair!/
A darker shade of brown!
It’s too light for me!”
— Metallica - Creeping Death

There’s a parody version of The Doors’ Riders on the Storm, done by Bob Rivers, which is quite brilliant. It’s called ‘Burgers on the Grill’ (youtube) and its lyrics in their entirety are better than the original.