Well, I learned something today. In the Jack Johnson song “Upside Down,” I always thought the lyric was “I’ll share this love I find with everyone, We’ll sing and dance to Mother Nature’s Son,” a reference to the Beatles’ song.
I looked up the lyrics to confirm, and it turns out he’s singing “We’ll sing and dance to Mother Nature’s songs.”
So I’ve got nothing to add, but now have something to contribute to the next “Misheard lyrics” conversation.
Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire
^ Post 36 
Ed Sheeran’s Castle on the Hill mentions “Tiny Dancer”, a song originally by Elton John. There is another song by a female artist around the same time that also mentions Tiny Dancer, but I can’t think who it’s by or what it’s called at the moment.
Johnny Rivers’ Summer Rain: "All summer long we were dancing in the sand
Everybody just kept on playing “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”.
That would the previously mentioned Anne-Marie in her song Don’t Leave Me Alone.
**The Night Hank Williams Came to Town, by Johnny Cash, includes a list of songs by the senior Hank Williams.
Not exactly mainstream, but if you’re into Irish republican music, Rebel Song by Spirit of Freedom is basically a list of other IRA songs.
Tom Lehrer’s Christmas Carol:
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things.
God rest ye merry merchants,
May ye make the Yuletide pay.
Angels we have heard on high,
Tell us to go out and buy!
When I read that, I immediately thought of the Righteous Brothers’ Rock and Roll Heaven, which mentions at least half a dozen songs.
I’ve always liked the concept of that song, a Valhalla for singers.
Joan Baez’s tribute to Bob Dylan “Winds of the Old Days” has the line “Your blue eyed son,” an obvious reference to his “A Hard Rain’s A Gonna Fall” My blue eyed son.
Lyle Lovett’s “An Acceptable Level of Ecstacy” mentions “Moon River.”
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Californicatiob” namechecks the Bowie album Station to Station.
Extreme’s Rest In Peace has the line:
Someone said give peace a chance
And that’s all that we’re saying
Joni Mitchell’s ‘California’: “They won’t give peace a chance: That was just a dream some of us had”.
I’d forgotten this one, heard it on the radio this morning: Bowie’s Young Americans references the Beatles A Day in the Life, with the backup singers piping, “I heard the news today oh boy” in the final verse (it’s “read the news” in the original, but IMO it’s clearly a reference).
The Housemartins - Five Get Over Excited
Last seen drinking Daddy’s own beer
(Five poisoned over dinner)
Singing Abba’s, ‘Mamma Mia’
(Five poisoned over dinner)
Southern Man is on Young’s 1970 solo album After the Gold Rush
That was the original version, but granted, it was also onCSN&Y’s live album “4 Way Street” from around the same time.