Mondegreens AKA Misheard lyrics.

[Fester]

This cartoon caught my attention the other day. 
And I got to thinking: "am I the only one here with Smart-ass Tourettes and propensity for Mondegreens?"

A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning, and most commonly it applies to a line in a poem or a lyric in a song.

A kittle background on the name:  Writer Sylvia Wright coined the term in an article "The Death of Lady Mondegreen," published in Harper's Magazine in November 1954.

She Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the last line of the first stanza from the 17th-century ballad "The Bonny Earl O'Moray".
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 O' Moray,
        And Lady Mondegreen.

The actual fourth line is "And laid him on the green". 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."

I'm old enough to have heard Hendrix's song Purple Haze when it first hit the the radio.  I never could figure out why he had that line; "Scuse me while I kiss this guy."

In the 6th grade or so, I remember having to learn the Battle Hymn of the Republic for some patriotic program.  To this day, I am not sure who was "trampling on the village where the grapes are wrapped and stored."  But I do recall "His shoes go marching on."

What are your favorite Mondegreens?

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