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Misheard Song Lyrics -> Artist -> C -> Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Misheard song lyrics (also called mondegreens) occur when people misunderstand the lyrics in a song. These are NOT intentional rephrasing of lyrics, which is called parody. This page contains all the misheard lyrics for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young that have been submitted to this site and the old collection from inthe80s started in 1996. For more information about the misheard lyrics available on this site, please read our FAQ.
There are 75 misheard song lyrics for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young on amIright currently.
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"4 + 20"
Misheard Lyrics:
I grow weary of the tall men
Can there be no peace?
Can there be no peace?
Original Lyrics:
I grow weary of the torment
Can there be no peace?
Can there be no peace?
"Almost Cut My Hair"
Misheard Lyrics:
Like lookin' in my mirror and seein' a Polish guy
Original Lyrics:
Like lookin' in my mirror and seein' a police car
"Carry On"
Misheard Lyrics:
Love again you taught to me
Original Lyrics:
Lover can you talk to me
"Carry On"
Misheard Lyrics:
To sing the blues you've got to let the Jews carry on
Original Lyrics:
To sing the blues you've got to live the tunes and carry on
"Have Some Faith In Me"
Misheard Lyrics:
Masturbate with me!
Original Lyrics:
Have some faith in me.
"Helpless"
Misheard Lyrics:
A stream comes through with memory to spare
Original Lyrics:
With dream comfort memory to spare
"Helpless"
Misheard Lyrics:
Big Bird's flying across the sky.
Original Lyrics:
Big birds flying across the sky.
"Helpless"
Misheard Lyrics:
There is a clown in North Ontario.
Original Lyrics:
There is a town in North Ontario.
"Love The One You're With"
Misheard Lyrics:
And if you can't be with the one you love, honey
Love the wandrin' wind.
Love the wandrin' wind.
Original Lyrics:
And if you can't be with the one you love, honey
Love the one you're with.
Love the one you're with.
Misunderstood no matter who sings it: Luther Vandross, Neville Brothers, etc.
"Love The One You're With"
Misheard Lyrics:
Love the one you is.
Original Lyrics:
Love the one you're with.
"Love The One You're With"
Misheard Lyrics:
Love the one you win.
Original Lyrics:
Love the one you're with.
"Love The One You're With"
Misheard Lyrics:
See the girl. The girl from Mars.
Original Lyrics:
She's a girl and you're a boy
"Love The One You're With"
Misheard Lyrics:
She's a girly Garabald
Original Lyrics:
She's a girl and you're a boy
"Love The One You're With"
Misheard Lyrics:
There's a road in the distance, love.
Original Lyrics:
There's a rose in the fisted glove.
"Love the One You're With"
Misheard Lyrics:
There's a road and a distant love
Original Lyrics:
There's a rose in a fisted glove
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
4 diddle-ee o-i-o
Original Lyrics:
4 dead in Ohio
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
For Dad in Ohio
Original Lyrics:
Four dead in Ohio
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
For dad in Ohio
Original Lyrics:
Four dead in Ohio
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
Forget in Ohio
Original Lyrics:
Four dead in Ohio
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
Forget it, Ohio.
Original Lyrics:
Four dead in Ohio
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
Forgetting Ohio
Original Lyrics:
Four dead in Ohio
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
Fort Dannon, Ohio
Original Lyrics:
Four dead in Ohio
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
More head in Ohio
Original Lyrics:
Four dead in Ohio
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
O day de do di do
Original Lyrics:
Four dead in Ohio
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
Poor Teddy and Ohio
or
Boy dead in Ohio
or
Boy dead in Ohio
Original Lyrics:
Four dead in Ohio
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
Poor dad in Ohio
Original Lyrics:
Four dead in Ohio
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
Poor daddy and Ohio
Original Lyrics:
Four dead in Ohio
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
Poor daddy in Ohio
Original Lyrics:
Four dead in Ohio
Editor's note: Neil Young himself wrote the song, and provided the lead vocal on the recording... but I'm not sure if he ever recorded a solo version of it.
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
Poor daddy rolled his own.
Original Lyrics:
Four dead in ohio
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
Poor daddy, oh-my-oh.
Original Lyrics:
Four dead in Ohio.
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
Poor man in Ohio
Original Lyrics:
Four dead in Ohio
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
Soldiers are coming to town
Original Lyrics:
Soldiers are cutting us down
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
Soldiers are cutting us down.
Original Lyrics:
Soldiers are gunning us down.
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
Ten soldiers and Nixon's coming
Original Lyrics:
Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
This summer I hear the strumming,
forget the Ohio
forget the Ohio
Original Lyrics:
This summer I hear the drumming,
four dead in Ohio.
four dead in Ohio.
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
This summer I heard them comin', oh daddy, in Ohio
Gotta get down to him
Soldiers are gunning us down.
Should have been done long ago.
Gotta get it through her head - pound her head on the ground
Gotta get down to him
Soldiers are gunning us down.
Should have been done long ago.
Gotta get it through her head - pound her head on the ground
Original Lyrics:
This summer I hear the drummin'
Four dead in Ohio
Gotta get down to it.
Soldiers are gunning us down.
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
Four dead in Ohio
Gotta get down to it.
Soldiers are gunning us down.
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
I was too young to know what the song was about so rather than being shocked by the Nixon administration and sociopolitical climate I thought it was shockingly misogynous!
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
Tin soldiers and Vixen coming
or
Tin soldiers and Blitzen coming
or
Ten soldiers and Vixen coming
or
Ten soldiers and Blitzen coming
or
Tin soldiers and Blitzen coming
or
Ten soldiers and Vixen coming
or
Ten soldiers and Blitzen coming
Original Lyrics:
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
What if you found her dead on the ground
Original Lyrics:
4 dead in Ohio
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
What if you knew that four people were dead on the ground?
Original Lyrics:
What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground?
"Ohio"
Misheard Lyrics:
You smell in Ohio.
Original Lyrics:
Four dead in Ohio
"Our House"
Misheard Lyrics:
Our house is a very very terrifying house
Original Lyrics:
Our house is a very very very fine house
"Our House"
Misheard Lyrics:
Our house is a very very very fine house,
With toothpicks in the yard.
With toothpicks in the yard.
Original Lyrics:
Our house is a very very very fine house,
With two cats in the yard.
With two cats in the yard.
"Our House"
Misheard Lyrics:
Our house, is a very very terrifying house
Original Lyrics:
Our house, is a very very very fine house.
"Our House"
Misheard Lyrics:
What used to be so far
Original Lyrics:
Life used to be so hard
"Our House"
Misheard Lyrics:
When Tupac's in the yard
Original Lyrics:
With two cats in the yard
"Our House"
Misheard Lyrics:
While you put the flowers in the car
Original Lyrics:
While you place the flowers in the vase
"Our House"
Misheard Lyrics:
With teapots in the yard
Original Lyrics:
With two cats in the yard
"Our House"
Misheard Lyrics:
With toucans in the yard
Original Lyrics:
With two cats in the yard
"Our House"
Misheard Lyrics:
You place the flowers in the car
Original Lyrics:
You place the flowers in the vase
"Teach Your Children"
Misheard Lyrics:
Teach your children to yell
Original Lyrics:
Teach your children well
"Teach Your Children"
Misheard Lyrics:
That you Elmer's Glue by.
Original Lyrics:
That your elders grew by.
"Teach Your Children"
Misheard Lyrics:
That your elders groove by
Original Lyrics:
That your elders grew by
"Teach Your Children"
Misheard Lyrics:
The ones they bitch
Original Lyrics:
The ones they picks
I suspect that the way I heard it may be the way Graham Nash really wrote it, but lyrics got edited along the way to make it more acceptable to broader audiences. "The ones they picks" makes no sense, and "the ones they bitch" kind of does.
"Teach Your Children"
Misheard Lyrics:
They seek the turf.
Original Lyrics:
They seek the truth.
"Teach Your Children"
Misheard Lyrics:
You who are on the road must have a cold
Original Lyrics:
You who are on the road must have a code
Editor's note: This song is credited as by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (since the four of them were together when they recorded/released it, although Nash wrote it).
"Wooden Ships"
Misheard Lyrics:
Frog Licky Busboy's delight
Original Lyrics:
Probably keep us both alive
"Woodstock"
Misheard Lyrics:
And I asked him tell me where are you going
Mr. Tobey?
Mr. Tobey?
Original Lyrics:
And I asked him tell me where are you going
This he told me.
This he told me.
"Woodstock"
Misheard Lyrics:
And I asked him tell me where are you going
He said, "No place."
He said, "No place."
Original Lyrics:
And I asked him tell me where are you going
This he told me.
This he told me.
"Woodstock"
Misheard Lyrics:
And I dreamed I saw the bomber jet planes riding shotgun in the sky
Original Lyrics:
And I dreamed I saw the bomber death planes riding shotgun in the sky.
"Woodstock"
Misheard Lyrics:
And I dreamed I saw the farmer Des Plaines riding shotgun in the sky.
Original Lyrics:
And I dreamed I saw the bombers and planes riding shotgun in the sky.
"Woodstock"
Misheard Lyrics:
And I dreamed I saw the father death flames
Riding shotgun in the sky.
Riding shotgun in the sky.
Original Lyrics:
And I dreamed I saw the bomber jet planes
Riding shotgun in the sky.
Riding shotgun in the sky.
"Woodstock"
Misheard Lyrics:
And life is perverted
Original Lyrics:
And life is for learning
"Woodstock"
Misheard Lyrics:
And this he sold me
Original Lyrics:
And this he told me
"Woodstock"
Misheard Lyrics:
By the time we got to Woodstock,
We were having the mistral.
We were having the mistral.
Original Lyrics:
By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong.
We were half a million strong.
"Woodstock"
Misheard Lyrics:
I have come to lose the smile.
Original Lyrics:
I have come to lose the smog.
"Woodstock"
Misheard Lyrics:
In my dreams I saw the bomber jet planes riding shotgun in the sky
Original Lyrics:
And I dreamed I saw the bombers and planes riding shotgun in the sky.
"Woodstock"
Misheard Lyrics:
Said, "I'm going down to Lester's Pond"
Original Lyrics:
Said, "I'm going down to Yasgur's Farm"
Nobody outside of America had heard of 'Yasgur's Farm' at the time.
"Woodstock"
Misheard Lyrics:
We are big; you know we are.
Original Lyrics:
We are billion year old carbon.
To decipher this line, listen to Joni Mitchell's original version.
"Woodstock"
Misheard Lyrics:
We are filled with a noble pardon.
Original Lyrics:
We are billion year old carbon.
"Woodstock"
Misheard Lyrics:
We are sawdust, we are golden,
we are billing year old cartons
we are billing year old cartons
Original Lyrics:
We are stardust, we are golden,
we are billion year old carbon
we are billion year old carbon
"Woodstock"
Misheard Lyrics:
We are standards, we are goers
We are building granola bar den.
We are building granola bar den.
Original Lyrics:
We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion year old carbon.
We are billion year old carbon.
"Woodstock"
Misheard Lyrics:
We are starters, we are builders
We are here and you know it's alright
But we've got to get ourselves back to the job.
We are here and you know it's alright
But we've got to get ourselves back to the job.
Original Lyrics:
We are stardust, we are golden
We are caught in the devil's bargain
But we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.
We are caught in the devil's bargain
But we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.
"Woodstock"
Misheard Lyrics:
We are starving, we are frozen
We are ill and broken-hearted
And we've got to get ourselves back to the darkness.
We are ill and broken-hearted
And we've got to get ourselves back to the darkness.
Original Lyrics:
We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.
We are billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.
"Woodstock"
Misheard Lyrics:
Well, I am going down to yes this farm.
Original Lyrics:
Well, I am going down to Yasgur's farm.
"Woodstock"
Misheard Lyrics:
Well, I came upon a China dog.
Original Lyrics:
Well, I came upon a child of God.
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