sinsboldly wrote:
I love Mondegreens!*
The one I always heard wrong was "There's a bathroom on the right"
(the line at the end of each verse of "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival: "There's a bad moon on the rise")
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*The American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term mondegreen in her essay "The Death of Lady Mondegreen," which was published in Harper's Magazine in November 1954.[3] In the essay, Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the final line of the first stanza from the 17th-century ballad "The Bonnie Earl O' Murray." She wrote:
When I was a child, my mother used to read aloud to me from Percy's Reliques, and one of my favorite poems began, as I remember:
"Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl Amurray,
And Lady Mondegreen. "
The actual fourth line is "And laid him on the green". As Wright explained the need for a new term, "The point about what I shall hereafter call mondegreens, since no one else has thought up a word for them, is that they are better than the original".
Now that you mention it, it does sound like "bathroom on the right".
Another one:
The Donald Duck Theme
Who has the greatest disposition?
One guess at who;
Who never, never starts an argument?
Who never shows a bitter temperment?
Who's never wrong, but always right
(Donald: Yeah?)
Who never dreams of starting a fight?
(Donald:
That so?)
Who gets stuck with
all the bad luck?
No one (Donald rambling) but Donald Duck (Donald: Yeah!)
What I thought they were saying:
Who has the greatest disposition?
One guess at who;
Who never, never starts an argument?
Who never shows a bitter temperment?
Who's never wrong, but always right
(Donald: Yeah?)
Who never dreams of starting a fight?
(Donald:
Fatso!)
Who gets stuck with
Ottoman luck?
No one (Donald rambling) but Donald Duck (Donald: Yeah!)
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