Comments on: What’s your favorite mondegreen?

By: wooga

wooga — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:32:29 +0000

Oingo Boingo’s “Dead Man’s Party”

They say “leave your body and soul at the door.” Sounds like “leave your body a**hole, at the door.

By: johndlong

johndlong — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:58:15 +0000

The earliest I remember and still my favorite is that Disco favorite “Tuna hot Dog” (Do The Hustle.) My sister’s best friend’s little brother used to run around the house singing “Tuna Hot Dog” whenever it came on the radio. I still laugh out loud imagining Jimmy singing this thirty years later.

~~JD~~

By: frontierguy

frontierguy — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:39:32 +0000

I know I’m late, been busy and working nights. But, for the longest time I thought the chorus for Spiderwebs by No Doubt went like this:

And its all your fault
I scream my balls off
No matter whose fault
I gotta scream my balls off

It is really something about screen phone calls. Don’t know why I got balls off and phone calls mixed up.

I just thought gwen stefani must think she has some big balls.

By: MikeOK

MikeOK — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:43:49 +0000

29victor,

The Joe Cocker video was priceless.

“Probiotics changed the way I live”

Priceless.

By: shimauma2

shimauma2 — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:19:52 +0000

My hubby likes to revamp the lyrics to Sting’s “Fields of Gold”, when it comes to the line “Fields of barley” he’ll sing “fields of holly” which doesn’t make sense as holly grows in trees and is very prickly, you wouldn’t want to be laying down with your lover in fields of holly…I mean OUCHIES!!

TEEEEEJ

By: winemkr

winemkr — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:46:51 +0000

Jingle Bells

What I heard….

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way, oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse SOAP and sleigh.

Should be OPEN sleigh.

By: Stillwaiting

Stillwaiting — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:36:33 +0000

I used to get nervous in church when everyone else used to sing:

Tis a gift to be sinful, tis a gift to be free.

I was pretty sure God wouldn’t like that, so I kept my mouth shut. I also kept quiet when the congregation recited en masse:

I’m here oh Lord, now answer me!!!

By: tyrion

tyrion — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:04:00 +0000

She’s got a tick in her eye, and she don’t care!

Ticket to Ride – Beatles

My Baby Don’t Care

By: madchef

madchef — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:18:10 +0000

Eddie Murphy SNL bit “Buckwheat Sings”

“TEE Tines ah Mady”

“Daby Dub”

By: MathMom

MathMom — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:08:47 +0000

I just remembered one from when my other son was in about first grade. We had recently aquired a Beach Boys CD, and he was singing “my little loose tooth” to “My Little Deuce Coupe”. I guess you sing what you know.

By: governmentdrone

governmentdrone — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:48:12 +0000

P.S.

Hat tip to Walt Kelley and “Pogo” for the lyrics to “Home on the Range”. I believe it was Albert Alligator who so memorably mangled that song.

By: governmentdrone

governmentdrone — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:46:28 +0000

“Jose can you see
By the dawn’s surly light . . .”

“With liver tea and justice for all.”

“Home, home on the range,
Where the dear little cantelope play,
Where seldom is heard
A discouraging bird,
And the flies are not crowded all day.”

And who could possibly forget Cheech Marin’s version of “My Sharona”?

By: AlohaGuy

AlohaGuy — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:45:23 +0000

Can you mondegreen yourself? I heard In-a-Gadda-da-Vida was really In the Garden of Eden but they were to wasted to pronounce it. Maybe true, maybe not.

By: greenfairie

greenfairie — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:43:42 +0000

There’s one from Madonna’s “Vogue” I saw on AmIRight.com that cracked me up. Instead of “Ginger Rogers, dance on air” somebody thought it was “gingivitis, dance on air.”

Then there’s Wings’ “Jets” where someone actually thought instead of the refrain of “jets!” it was “s—!”

But my all-time favorite is the line from Kim Carnes’s “Bette Davis Eyes” that goes “all of the boys think she’s a spy.” When I was a kid, I thought she was singing, “All of the boys think she’s a spaz.”

By: Canadian Mike

Canadian Mike — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:06:29 +0000

For the longest time I thought “dude looks like a lady” was “do the lucky lady”. I thought it was a groupie reference.