Do you have a mondegreen?

[Guest]

Do you even know what it is? Do you care?

It's when you hear something and your brain registers it as something else.....
Examples:- (line from a Beatles' song) "the girl with colitis goes by"

(Charles Darwin's work) "Oranges and Peaches"

(jazz classic) "Honey suck my nose"

(a nice name for a nasty disease) 65 roses

( a line from the Canadian national anthem) "our old man ate his lamb"

 

[scylis]

" 'scuse me while i kiss this guy" (they wrote a book about this thread's subject as far as lyrics go, and they used that as the title)

"my sack of rice" (this one i spring on Creed fans just to piss them off)

 

[acitore_vuli]

I like the example on dictionary.com

"I led the pigeons, to the flag.." (of the United States of America)

lol

*boo boo'd on united*

 

[acitore_vuli]

then there's blinded by the light...

"wrapped up like a douche" instead of "Revved up like a deuce"

 

[Feelin' Naughty]

reverand (sp) in bluejeans

 

[greybeard]

creedance clearwater.................

theres a bathroom on the right.................

greybeard

 

[Feelin' Naughty]

do you like bean enchiladas
and getting caught in the rain

 

[Dillinger]

The term "mondegreen" was coined by Sylvia Wright in a 1954 Atlantic article. As a child, young Sylvia had listened to a folk song that included the lines "They had slain the Earl of Moray/And Lady Mondegreen." As is customary with misheard lyrics, she didn't realize her mistake for years. The song was not about the tragic fate of Lady Mondegreen, but rather, the continuing plight of the good earl: "They had slain the Earl of Moray/And laid him on the green."

 

[Guest]

Please....

Because some of us will go crazy trying to a) remember or
b) figure out the source, could you include it too?

 

[Guest]

Thank you

The term "mondegreen" was coined by Sylvia Wright in a 1954 Atlantic article. As a child, young Sylvia had listened to a folk song that included the lines "They had slain the Earl of Moray/And Lady Mondegreen." As is customary with misheard lyrics, she didn't realize her mistake for years. The song was not about the tragic fate of Lady Mondegreen, but rather, the continuing plight of the good earl: "They had slain the Earl of Moray/And laid him on the green."

I just assumed we all knew that....my bad.

 

[Feelin' Naughty]

Re: Please....

Because some of us will go crazy trying to a) remember or
b) figure out the source, could you include it too?

sorry, the blue jeans one was Neil Diamond 'Forever in Bluejeans'

The Pina Colada song..... I don't remember who did it.
DILLY!!!

 

[Shiner]

Isn't that what got Clinton into so much trouble when he said "Sack my cook".

 

[theGatsby]

Jesus please don't laugh at me
-Doobie Brothers

("Jesus is just alright with me" actual lyrics)



I'm Freeeee, free balllin', yes I'm freeee, free ballin
-Tom Petty

(Free Fallin)

 

[Dillinger]

Re: Re: Please....

sorry, the blue jeans one was Neil Diamond 'Forever in Bluejeans'

The Pina Colada song..... I don't remember who did it.
DILLY!!!

Rupert Holmes

Song: Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
Artist: Rupert Holmes

The real lyrics were:
If you like pina coladas,
and getting caught in the rain


Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long.
Like a worn-out recording, of a favorite song.
So while she lay there sleeping, I read the paper in bed.
And in the personals column, there was this letter I read:

"If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
If you're not into yoga, if you have half-a-brain.
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.
I'm the lady you've looked for, write to me, and escape."

I didn't think about my lady, I know that sounds kind of mean.
But me and my old lady, had fallen into the same old dull routine.
So I wrote to the paper, took out a personal ad.
And though I'm nobody's poet, I thought it wasn't half-bad.

"Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
I'm not much into health food, I am into champagne.
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon, and cut through all this red tape.
At a bar called O'Malley's, where we'll plan our escape."

So I waited with high hopes, then she walked in the place.
I knew her smile in an instant, I knew the curve of her face.
It was my own lovely lady, and she said, "Oh, it's you."
And we laughed for a moment, and I said, "I never knew"..

"That you liked Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
And the feel of the ocean, and the taste of champagne.
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.
You're the love that I've looked for, come with me, and escape."

"If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
If you're not into yoga, if you have half-a-brain.
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.
You're the love that I've looked for, come with me, and escape

 

[Feelin' Naughty]

Re: Re: Re: Please....

Rupert Holmes

Song: Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
Artist: Rupert Holmes

The real lyrics were:
If you like pina coladas,
and getting caught in the rain

I knew my answer man would come through for me

Thank you!

 

[Dillinger]

My pleasure.

 

[teddybear4play]

Once I was talking to my mom, and since I was in the midst of a stretch where it seemed nothing would go right, I commented that "I've had the kind of week where lesser-willed men would commit suicide."

Her only response was, "Who's Lester Willman?"

TB4p