Best Forced Eggcorns

Xelebes

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In music, there is a lot of unintentional eggcorns and some of them are very famous or very hilarious. But there is such thing as a forced eggcorn, which takes a little skill from the songwriter point of view. And they can be quite tricky to spot. The most explicit example is Sherry Kean's 1983 hit "I Want You Back". The forced eggcorn is in the refrain where there is a step missing in the lyric which is filled in by the riff, leading you to interpret "back" as "baby." This is exploited in the lyrics by the use of "baby" and "back" in an almost interchangeable manner.

So what other ones are out there?