Comments on: I love a good mondegreen

By: Ciaran

Ciaran — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:35:53 +0000

Nearly bust something laughing at “colitis” in Lucy in the Sky (in fairness, there’s nothing in that song to tip you off that you might be singing anything weirder than the rest of it) and “Olive, the other reindeer…”
I had “oh oh oh oh camel fuzz, things are never quite the way they seem” in the song “Camouflage”. Made no sense, but then little did at that age, when I had not long figured out that Adam Ant wasn’t actually a highwayman.
And I don’t care what any one says, “somewhere miscellaneous lord, I let her slip away” is far better than “somewhere near Sallinas…” Not my fault that Kristofferson wrote it wrong.

By: ian

ian — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:58:01 +0000

nights in prestatyn never reaching the end

CJ: Good one!

By: Rodney

Rodney — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:33:05 +0000

I always used to enjoy singing along to John Cougar Mellencamp’s “I’m fightin’ Dorothy and Dorothy always wins”. Imagine my heartbreak when the wife told me it’s “I fight authority, authority always wins”. The world is a cruel, cruel place…

CJ: Ouch! Cruel indeed…

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:10:34 +0000

Love a mondegreen… I would like to see a TV/ movie character who spoke soley in mondegreens

my Finnish GF supplied these two:
from the second birthday song
“…for he’s a jolly good fellow, and nobody can be nice” (nobody can deny)

from the cartoon show Transformers song
“transformers, robots in the skies” (in disguise)

CJ: Now that’s an interesting idea. Maybe an alien who starts to learn human language through music but keeps getting the words confused? I might have to steal that for my writing!

Thanks for the mondegreens as well. I can see that about the Transformers; it sounds so similar. But the birthday one’s unforgivable.

By: Lolly

Lolly — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:34:24 +0000

I haven't seen anyone yet mention "wrapped up like a douche" (should read "revved up like a deuce") from Blinded By The Light. Maybe everyone thinks that is the real lyric? CJ: It could be that, Lolly; I'm afraid I don't know the song that well to know the lyric, but Am I Right shows quite a few people have misheard the lyric, so maybe it is fairly common. I like that one, though; some of these mondegreens are classics.