There are a couple books devoted to this. They call them Lady Mondegreen's from an old ballad that really says something about someone who died and "and they laid him on the green", but it was misheard as "and Lady Mondegreen".
One of my favorites was from the Billy Joel song "We didn't Light the Fire". Actual text is "Children of thalidimide" (sp?). Misheard as "Children of the little mind".
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Date: 2005-06-21 06:06 pm (UTC)Lady Mondegreen's
Date: 2005-06-21 10:06 pm (UTC)One of my favorites was from the Billy Joel song "We didn't Light the Fire". Actual text is "Children of thalidimide" (sp?). Misheard as "Children of the little mind".
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Date: 2005-06-23 02:32 pm (UTC)How are you today?
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Date: 2005-06-23 04:46 pm (UTC)There's a calendar, too.
Date: 2005-06-29 06:27 pm (UTC)Today's is from Iggy Pop - title line from the song "Lust for Life" misheard as "I got a lustful wife"...
Favorite so far this year is probably still a Mellencamp mangling: "When I fight with Dorothy, Dorothy always grins . . ."
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