What's your favorite mondegreen?!
Question: For those who don't know, a mondegreen is a misunderstanding of something such as song lyrics. For example, some people heard the song "Go your own way" by Fleetwood Mac as "Grow your own weed". I know we've all misheard songs before and embarrassed ourselves by singing them in the car, so post your funniest ones here.
Answers: For those who don't know, a mondegreen is a misunderstanding of something such as song lyrics. For example, some people heard the song "Go your own way" by Fleetwood Mac as "Grow your own weed". I know we've all misheard songs before and embarrassed ourselves by singing them in the car, so post your funniest ones here.
I've had some mondegreens...some stupider than others. For the longest time I thought the line "people think I'm insane because I am frowning all the time" from Paranoid was "people think I'm insane because I am browning overtime". And I used to think that the line "gunpowder gelatine" in Killer Queen was "got that agility".
mairsy doates and doesey dotes and litte lamsy divy
it's a reverse mondegreen. by the way, look into mondegreens as a frequent cause for captioning errors since machine captioning is done phonetically.
i thought "everybody wants to rule the world" was
"everybody wants a new romance" for about 15 years
"There's a Bathroom on the right"
vs.
"There's a bad moon on the rise"
from ccr's bad moon
And "I think your a garbage can" vs. "Near a garbage can"
in Neil Young's Rockin in the Free World