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“The sheep don’t like it. Rock the cash box, rock the cash box. No, the sheep don’t like it…”

Sometimes the lyrics you make up are better than the actual lyrics.

"Cheap wine and a three legged goat" has always been my fave. I still sing this today!

There's a series of books that show the true lyrics and the most common mangling of those lyrics. One of them is called "He's Got The Whole World In His Pants".

"You get your money for nothing and your checks for free" In my defense, I was 9 when the song came out and you paid for things with checks back in those days. I was probably in my late 20s when I found out it was "chicks for free"

That's why we taped it from CD's, and when your cassette player was low on batteries it would play it in slow motion. Honestly learned lyrics this way

"She's got electric boobs! I saw those boobs!" Yep, Elton...that's what I thought you said growing up.

'It's been a year since I broke my nose', Message in a Bottle ,The Police. One of my classmates at the time.

"I'm not talking 'bout the linen. And the napkins will change your life."

"Dirty deeds and the Dunder Chiefs...

Stepped on a pop tart . Blew out my flip flop

When we were young, my younger sister would sing "Sweet jeans are made of these."

Even better when you hear words of your own language in english song lyrics. One radio station in Germany has/had a section where listeners could send in their own misheard lyrics. they called it the Agathe Bauer section, named after the song "I got the Power" from snap. A listener called them to request the song with that name.

That's a great theory, but I think a lot of lyrics websites just list the first set of lyrics that some random user comes along and posts. I've seen plenty where the wrong word(s) gets repeated multiple websites while other websites get it wrong. And even liner notes aren't always correct. Bruce Springsteen tells a story about liner notes that say "Mary's dress waves", saying that he's been singing "Mary's dress sways" for almost 50 years and the printed lyrics are wrong. [Google Fu] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E3RtqtyDbcQ

Wasn't surprising to get the lyrics wrong though... I had a tape player that had one really poor-quality speaker. Now when I listen to those same songs on a CD played on awesome speakers, I can hear how the song was intended.

David Bowies starman; I thought it was "there's a snowman"... I did hear this song for the first time at Christmas. 🤦‍♀️

My son had so many! Van Halen's Running with the Devil = Running in the Ghetto, Tom Petty's Don't do me like that = Don't turn the lights out.... I could go an and on....

Revved up like a deuce, not wrapped up like a douche - whoopsie

Friend used to sing " Big old jet had a light on "

Whoopie Goldberg in "Jumping Jack Flash"

"Excuse me while I kiss this guy." (Jimmy Hendrix.)

Did no one read the lyrics in the liner notes???

Silent night: Jesus lordified birth.

"I wanna know, have you ever seen Lorraine?"

“Last night I dreamt of potatoes” is what I thought the line was in Las Isla Bonita. It’s not. It’s “last night I dreamt of San Pedro”.

Chicken in my head, Joe Jackson.

Too true!

i'm gen z and i still sing lyrics wrong

Cassettes and CDs used to have album notes with the lyrics inside.

There’s a bathroom on the right 🎶

As a person who gets confident in their ears sometimes and doesn't Google lyrics, it's like I'm looking in a mirror but it's being erased was my biggest thing, the lyrics were "like I'm looking in a mirror, but it's rearranged" and I still sing my version

The casette sleeves were there for a reason and you were supposed to run them through the copier. Not getting to the are these legible argument when people did casette copies to the 4th generation

i SWEAR: [and yeah, i'm not young...] i thought that Milk Chocolate were telling me that: "I believe in Milk Duds" [tangential Simpsons reference: Mr. Teeny doing "the full monkey" to this song hahahaha see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUY9Y9RFiHY%5D