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1. The lyrics for the title of this song from 1966 sounds like "Secret Asian Man". Who is the artist?
2. See if you can spot the error in this lyric from an album cut from 1991: "While she walks slowly across a young man's room, she said 'I'm ready for you'. I can't remember anything to this very day except blood, blood". Who is the artist?
3. Who is the artist that performs this misunderstood lyric: "There's going to be a party tonight, a party tonight I know..."?
4. Who is responsible for this misunderstood lyric..."I test the rains down in Africa..."?
5. The lyrics to this song is full of misunderstandings: "Lovely is the feeling now; fever, temperatures risin' now. Power (ah power) is the feelin' now....Keep on with the post up, don't stop til you get enough..." Who is the singer and songwriter here?
6. Who is responsible for this lyrical mess: "You gotta drunk driver in your way..."?
7. There are a few lines of the following song that are easily misunderstood: "Oh Lord, there's a revolution. Feed the babies who don't have enough to eat, shoot the children with no shoes on their feet. How's the people living in the street?" Who sang this song from the late 70's?
8. I have been listening to this song since 1977 and I still can't figure out the lyrics: "Lido miss the boat, that lady left the shack, but that was all she missed, she ain't comin' back. At a two tone bar with a jutejoint car he made a stop just long enough to grab a handful off the top. Next stop, Chinatown, Lido put the money down let her roll, sayin' one more jab outta get it, one last shot for the kitty, one for the road. Lido, whoa oh oh,oh. He's for the fun, he for the show, Lido's the way to go, whoa, oh, Lido..."
Who sang this lyrical mess?
9. This song from the 1970's is another I've been listening to for 30 years and still don't understand the lyrics:
"Love is like a flaw, all my life in vain. Love hurts...I'm young enough, but even so, I know I've been abused (a duce?) I learned from you...some fools fool with happiness, blissfulness, togetherness, some fools fool with paper glass(!), plain infidelity, and love it is untrue, and love it is untrue. Love is just a lie, meant to madden you." Who released a cover of this song in 1975?
10. Years ago I was in a cover-rock band and we did this song from the 70's with the wrong lyrics! Here's a sample: "Well the preacher and the teacher, Lord they are gossip, they are the talk of the town. When the gossip gets to flyin' and they get on, when the sun comes fallin' down. They say that everybody's insane and call this pocus a game....But everyday there's a new thing comin' the haze and the oriental view. Wish everything was buttered with a Samurai sword....
Who performed this lyrical disaster?
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