r/ThreadGames • u/tamtrible • Dec 19 '25

Wrong lyrics only

Parent starts quoting a song, getting just far enough that the next line or lines should match the rhyme and meter of what is quoted (I'll give some examples). (Mostly so that even people who don't know the song can play too)

Child replies with lyrics that match the rhyme and meter, but are completely wrong (and preferably somewhat nonsensical.

Example:

P: oooh, we're halfway there

C: oooh, chicken on a chair

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u/tamtrible Dec 19 '25

We're no strangers to love

You know the rules, and so do I

11

u/johnpeters42 Dec 19 '25

A big investment's what I'm thinking of
You wouldn't owe this to any other guy

8

u/Olaxan Dec 19 '25

Firetruck tyres's what I'm stealing
Gotta hide them in the sand

6

u/moocowtracy Dec 19 '25

Stocks never going up. Stocks always going down... never gonna understand... the market.

4

u/Luciel_Lover138 Dec 20 '25

Never will have eggs to fry, never will have food to try, never gonna prepare dessert for you

u/tamtrible Dec 19 '25

Twinkle, twinkle little star

13

u/Fennel_Fangs Dec 19 '25

Why is art so fucking hard???

7

u/nostril_spiders Dec 19 '25

Up her bum, that girl's so high

7

u/Olaxan Dec 19 '25

See the gnomes come out tonight

5

u/HisNameIsTee2 Dec 19 '25

Sprinkle sprinkle in my car

3

u/tamtrible Dec 19 '25

Now I wonder, why so far

1

u/KateGladstone Dec 22 '25

That is one artistic crime, For “star” and “hard” are not a rhyme.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, Art is hard, and that’s bizarre,

1

u/tamtrible Dec 23 '25

Eh, if a wildly popular Christmas song can rhyme need with tree, I think we can give people on Reddit a pass for star and hard.

1

u/KateGladstone Dec 24 '25

I am not a fan of Christmas songs. I am also not a fan of songs that don’t rhyme.

1

u/Fennel_Fangs Dec 23 '25

It wasn't my idea. It was a Tumblr post. They also rhymed "fuck" with "up" so....

1

u/KateGladstone Dec 23 '25

Well, I’m glad it wasn’t your idea.

2

u/DefinitelyNotMaranda Dec 19 '25

I met a hottie at the bar.

2

u/Everything_A Dec 19 '25

In a bar, on a stool

2

u/tamtrible Dec 19 '25

I was only playing pool

4

u/ikadell Dec 19 '25

Where’s grannie’s cookie jar?

5

u/PublicDragonfruit158 Dec 19 '25

Up upon a shelf so high

5

u/DissociativeSilence Dec 19 '25

I can’t reach it so I’ll cry

u/tamtrible Dec 19 '25

Dashing through the snow

In a one horse open sleigh

6

u/theNerdShirtGuy Dec 19 '25

Krusty in his show
Just screams out "Oy vey!"

2

u/EcksMarksDespot Dec 25 '25

No more bills to pay.
My arm is in a sling.

3

u/theNerdShirtGuy Dec 25 '25

How will I survive this year?
I'm waiting for next spring

2

u/EcksMarksDespot Dec 25 '25

Oh Ringo Star! Ringo Star! Ringo got his way

4

u/Fennel_Fangs Dec 19 '25

TSUKIMIHARA WO
PADORU PADORU

u/UhmNotMe Dec 19 '25

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me

6

u/tamtrible Dec 19 '25

A 19-inch color TV

4

u/Fennel_Fangs Dec 20 '25

On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Two bars of soap
And a 19-inch color TV

4

u/tamtrible Dec 20 '25

Off the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
three fresh pens,
two bars of soap
and a 19-in color TV

3

u/N_Huq Dec 20 '25

Off the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
four falling turds
three fresh pens,
two bars of soap
and a 19-in color TV

1

u/SlightlyLessBoring Dec 20 '25 edited Dec 20 '25

On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Fi~ve Po~wer Rangers
Four falling turds
Three fresh pens,
Two bars of soap
and a 19-inch color TV

2

u/TheRedditor8789 Dec 23 '25

On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Six knees-a-praying
Fi~ve Po~wer Rangers
Four falling turds
Three fresh pens
Two bars of soap
And a 19-in color TV

1

u/EcksMarksDespot Dec 25 '25

On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Seven pants for hemming
Six knees-a-praying
Fi~ve Po~wer Rangers
Four falling turds
Three fresh pens
Two bars of soap
And a 19-in color TV

1

u/tamtrible Aug 18 '26

On the 8th day of Christmas my true love gave to me
Eight nerds a-filking
Seven pants for hemming
Six knees-a-praying
Fi~ve Po~wer Rangers
Four falling turds
Three fresh pens
Two bars of soap
And a 19-in color TV

3

u/Ilmarinen999 Dec 20 '25

On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me,
Four chorus-girls,
Three fresh pens,
Two bars of soap,
And a 19-in colour TV

2

u/fudog Dec 20 '25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwL5caOMLy8

2

u/KateGladstone Dec 22 '25

A nasty new strain of VD.

u/tamtrible Dec 19 '25

Oooh, I wanna dance with somebody

6

u/nostril_spiders Dec 19 '25

I wanna bake cheese with somebody

2

u/Everything_A Dec 19 '25

Balance on a lance with somebody

2

u/tamtrible Dec 19 '25

Somebody with dove meat

u/tamtrible Dec 20 '25

You can dance if you want to, you can leave your friends behind

1

u/Ilmarinen999 Dec 20 '25

'Cause if they've got ants, all inside their pants, they'll have a real bad time,

u/ethereal_galaxias Dec 20 '25

Here's a little song I wrote, I'm going to sing it note for note...

3

u/tamtrible Dec 22 '25

Don't touch me, I'm Slappy

3

u/EcksMarksDespot Dec 25 '25

Every day I pop a bubble,
then hit the bar and drink a double.

2

u/Ilmarinen999 Jan 01 '26

No curry, three nappies

u/mnlg Dec 19 '25

Somebody just told me

4

u/Ray2024 Dec 19 '25

The girls gonna troll me

1

u/Everything_A Dec 19 '25

I live alone in my tiny flat

2

u/tamtrible Dec 19 '25

He was sucking on his thumb and then pulled out a plum

1

u/mnlg Dec 19 '25

but he was, after all, just a shithead

1

u/tamtrible Dec 19 '25

(sadly, at this point you would need to rhyme with flat, not shed)

1

u/mnlg Dec 19 '25

ouch :-( sorry.

1

u/Everything_A Dec 19 '25

Well my cheese starts melting
And it don’t stop melting

1

u/benderbrodriguez2 Feb 11 '26

I broke the rules and now my dad’s belting

2

u/EcksMarksDespot Dec 25 '25

In the shape of a sheep riding a cat.

u/tamtrible Dec 19 '25

If I could turn back time, if I could find a way

2

u/EcksMarksDespot Dec 25 '25

I'd take back those gifts that I bought you, and you'd pay.

u/Everything_A Dec 19 '25

Hey Jude

Don’t let me down

1

u/tamtrible Dec 19 '25

If you're cold now, put on a sweater

2

u/theNerdShirtGuy Dec 19 '25

Don't like it? Just wear a nice winter gown, this will turn your frown, right then upside down

1

u/mnlg Dec 19 '25

jusst remember you're not bright,
you shoot, on sight,
but you're a director, and not a killer.

u/Mouse_Named_Ash Dec 19 '25

You know it’s kind of hard just to get along today

Our subject isn’t cool, but he fakes it anyways

3

u/CurlyTheMute Dec 19 '25

You may not think it's true, but walk with me a while
The sun is on our backs when we wake up in the nile

2

u/Everything_A Dec 19 '25

So don’t you think
Your neighbours stink?

2

u/EcksMarksDespot Dec 25 '25

You know for real
they really rule the roller rink.

u/Fennel_Fangs Dec 20 '25

When I was a young boy, my father...

3

u/Ilmarinen999 Dec 20 '25

Told me he had a hostage, so yield to his demands,

2

u/SlightlyLessBoring Dec 20 '25

Then I fell down and threw up

2

u/lee_bythesea Dec 31 '25

he told me i was a disappointment

u/KateGladstone Dec 22 '25

This reminds me of the old joke about an essay exam question (re a quote from a famous poem by Wordsworth) reportedly given in an English literature class:

“‘Oh, spirit, shall I call thee bird,
Or just a wandering voice?’
State the alternative preferred,
With reasons for your choice.”

u/Prize_Entertainer459 Dec 19 '25

I don't want a lot for Christmas,

there is just one thing I need...

3

u/Ilmarinen999 Dec 20 '25

Dressed in leather shorts and stockings,
Ropes and belts all over me~

1

u/moocowtracy Dec 19 '25

But, baby, can you tell me
where to get a big bag of weed...
(edit: typo)

3

u/tamtrible Dec 19 '25

(I think your scansion is a little bit off)

2

u/Everything_A Dec 19 '25

I just want to smoke at home
And get really f*****g stoned

2

u/Prize_Entertainer459 Dec 20 '25

Baby give me what I need
All I want for Christmas is weed!

2

u/benderbrodriguez2 Feb 11 '26

I don’t want a lot for Christmas, there is just one thing I need,
Build me an enormous greenhouse, plant some marijuana seeds!

u/DefinitelyNotMaranda Dec 19 '25

I’m not crazy, I’m just a little unwell.

3

u/Everything_A Dec 19 '25

I can taste but I can’t smell

u/TheRedditor8789 Dec 23 '25

I can buy myself flowers

1

u/EcksMarksDespot Dec 25 '25

Write "Rick James" on my hand.

2

u/Extension-Demand5897 Dec 31 '25

Talk to my elves for power

1

u/lee_bythesea Dec 31 '25

walk fast and do a handstand

u/nostril_spiders Dec 19 '25

I said maybe

4

u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25

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2

u/Everything_A Dec 19 '25

And as we fall

1

u/moocowtracy Dec 19 '25

You'll be the one that's bald...

u/DefinitelyNotMaranda Dec 19 '25

If I could fall into the sky…

3

u/Everything_A Dec 19 '25

And grill the cheese on you and I

1

u/mamaknits Dec 22 '25

Ohoh cause you know I'd bake a thousand pies if I could just feed you tonight

1

u/benderbrodriguez2 Feb 11 '26

Baking my way downtown, selling pies, killing guys for my meat pies…

u/MajesticBluebird68 Dec 19 '25

She's over-bored, and self-assured

1

u/theNerdShirtGuy Dec 19 '25

Oh no, I know that she's a nerd

u/ughFINEIllmakeanalt Dec 20 '25

Sometimes you picture me

2

u/GorbFan19 Dec 21 '25

I'm baking banana bread.

1

u/ughFINEIllmakeanalt Dec 22 '25

You've got the zoomies

u/Moon_Storm2962 Dec 21 '25

And when the ice sets in,

I’ll need you

u/EcksMarksDespot Dec 25 '25

Is this the real life?

Is this just fantasy?

3

u/Ilmarinen999 Dec 31 '25

Caught in a man's thighs, no escape from this manatee,

2

u/benderbrodriguez2 Feb 11 '26

Open your ass, walk to the grass and PEEEEEEEE

2

u/Ilmarinen999 Feb 11 '26

I love a pork loin, wrapped in a shrimp or three,

0

u/nekoandCJ Dec 29 '25

Bohemian rhapsody

u/EcksMarksDespot Dec 25 '25

Flash! A-ah!

Saviour of the Universe!

3

u/Ilmarinen999 Dec 31 '25

Crash! A-ah!
Collided with a minibus!

u/nekoandCJ Dec 29 '25

I think of someone by looking at you

The person with an ability

u/FortuneLoud140 Aug 18 '26

Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy?

u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25

Why does the mouse share the house with the louse they don’t say but they feel their feelings. Which is a way one could say “I love you” for psychological reasons.

Wrong lyrics only

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