Worst cases of song covers with the words changed

What are your most cringe-worthy cases where an artist covered a song and messed with the lyrics?

The Beach Boys, "Rock and Roll Music"

"And drinking beer from a wooden cup..."

 

I gotchu!

Gotta be what Joe Cocka did to "Midnight Rider!"

Why Joe, why...?

 

George Harrison, “In my life…I love god more.”

 

I guess "Krishna" didn't fit haha

 

Ozzy changed "warned about you" to "born without you", missing the whole "warning" thing.


Original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwlcq8_EuEc

 

Hilary Duff, covering the Who's "My Generation"

Duff's version changes the line to "I hope I don't die before I get old"

 

Moby screwing up Mission of Burma

 

So much cavalry came...

(Joan Baez doing it to The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down)

 

And the winner is: Joan Baez for "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down".
Accepting the award for Ms. Baez will be CSA General George So-Much.

 

Great version but they royally mess up the Robitussin line, probably not knowing what it was. ("Whoa, muscles?")

 

Carpenters cover of “California Dreamin’”.

I got down on my knees and I BEGAN to pray.

 

The I wish that I could be ‘John Denver’ line ruins a fantastic Richard Cory cover on Wings Over America

 

The one that I was always bothered by is where Sublime covered Camper Van Beethoven's "Eye of Fatima" and changed the lyric from "he's got an 18 year old angel..." to " a 15 year old angel."

 

They only changed that lyric for MTV, not on the album.

 

The Wedding Present's cover of Pavement's "Box Elder" (renamed "Box Elder, MO") is great, but I wish Gedge hadn't replaced "get the f--k out of this town" with "get right out of this town."

 

Funny enough, I always get a kick out of that line

 

I’m a man. Spencer Davis: “my toilet’s trimmed with chrome.” Chicago: “my body’s pretty strong.”

 

Oof

 

In Jane's Addiction's cover of "Sympathy For The Devil" on their first live album (1987), Perry seems to say, "And his nation screamed in vain," missing the whole supposed historic survival/witnessing of Anastasia Romanov to the rest of her family's massacre. (Of course, I think it's been proven that the real Anastasia didn't in fact survive, there were just a few imposters who pretended to be her over the years, but still, good story...

I'm not 100% sure, but I've always heard it that way...

 

Are you sure about that toilet line? Never heard it that way before

 

"Revved up like a deuce," anyone?

From Manfred Mann's Earth Band's hit version of Springsteen's Blinded by the Light

 

Interesting, I never noticed that one before

 

Johnny Cash "Hurt"

Not cool Johnny

 

I thought that had to do with a feminine hygiene product.

 

i think that's more of a misunderstood lyric than something that they actually changed the words to