Have you met my friend Lady Mondegreen?

Round John Virgin · Jul 17, 2008

I'm a fan of word oddities. Anagrams--love 'em. Palindromes--can't get enough. And mondegreens--well, check the user name.

My favorite mondegreen at the moment is from the chorus to Sir Elton John's "Tiny Dancer":

Hold me clothes or tie me down, sir.
Count the head lice on the highwaaay . . .

What's yours?

Seaclusion · Jul 17, 2008

I'd respond and tell you the words I change in songs, but they are all explicit and well this is a public forum.

Richard

TerzaRima · Jul 17, 2008

'Scuse me while I kiss this guy.

Seaclusion · Jul 17, 2008

TerzaRima said:
'Scuse me while I kiss this guy.

You mean that's not what he was singing. I'm going to have to tell Spooky.

How about:
Lucy in disguise with die mons.

Richard

Gravity · Jul 17, 2008

The girl with colitis goes by...

TerzaRima · Jul 17, 2008

How about the beginning of that Journey song Sherry?

Cinnamon gu-um!

maestrowork · Jul 17, 2008

When I'm brown, and oh my nose is bleary
When truffle comes, and my hard burning free
When I'm still debating in the silos
Until you come and sleep around with me...

shakeysix · Jul 17, 2008

clowns in my coffee, clowns in my cofee
you're so vain you prolly think this song is about you

Seaclusion · Jul 17, 2008

Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do

We walked on to my door
Then we did it on the floor

Richard

maestrowork · Jul 17, 2008

I'd always thought the lyrics to the Madonna's song was:

Like a virgin, f***ed for the very first time.

No kidding. I seriously thought so.

shakeysix · Jul 17, 2008

they're not?--s6

TerzaRima · Jul 17, 2008

My brother swore up and down the song from Caddyshack went:

Ham on rye. Don't nobody worry 'bout me. Why you got to give me a fight...

Ol' Fashioned Girl · Jul 17, 2008

There's a bathroom on the right!

Pagey's_Girl · Jul 17, 2008

From the Ramones' "Go Mental" - "Staring at my goldfish bowl, popping peanut butter balls..."

Finally actually looked at the lyric sheet and realized it was "phenobarbital."

shakeysix · Jul 17, 2008

Wound up like a douche that is running in the night--blinded by the light!--s6

Fraulein · Jul 17, 2008

Blinded by the light,
wrapped up like a deuce, another runner in the night
...

and NOT- wrapped up like a douche, another odor in the night :idea:

Chauchat Butterfly · Jul 17, 2008

The bright blessed day
And the dogs say "goodnight"
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

Pagey's_Girl · Jul 18, 2008

From a friend who needs her hearing and/or head examined as much as I do:

"You're a Russian hedgehog, outta control
You're a Russian hedgehog, you got a new goal..."

(It's "rushing headlong," BTW...)

Maryn · Jul 18, 2008

Dave Barry's favorite, from the Beach Boys' Help Me, Rhonda:

Ever since you put me down
There's been owls puking in my bed.

Mine was the Moody Blues' Dear Diary, which I heard as Dead Irene.

Maryn, with some hearing loss early on

Jo · Jul 18, 2008

How about some Joe Cocker? Oh, and Pearl Jam.

rhymegirl · Jul 18, 2008

I was much younger when Jose Feliciano came out with his Christmas song. You know the one. Feliz Navidad.

Well, I thought he was singing:

"Her knees knocky knock. Her knees knocky knock."

Round John Virgin · Jul 18, 2008

rhymegirl said:
Feliz Navidad.

"Her knees knocky knock. Her knees knocky knock."

That is priceless!

Have you met my friend Lady Mondegreen?

Absolute Parsley

Absinthe O'Malice

Absolute Parsley

Seen 'em come, seen 'em go

Absinthe O'Malice

Fear the Death Ray

blue eyed floozy

Absolute Parsley

Fear the Death Ray

blue eyed floozy

Absinthe O'Malice

Hand? What hand?

Still plays with dolls

blue eyed floozy

Spooks? Where are you?...

~*~root beer floatz~*~

Still plays with dolls

At Sea

Travelling the re-write road

It's a New Year!

~~root beer floatz~~