Mondegreens

Have you ever heard of a mondegreen?

It is the name given to a misheard lyric.

The phrase was coined by Sylvia Wright who, as a child, misheard the line 'I laid him on the green' as 'Lady Mondegreen'.

Cute isn't it!

We have all had a mondegreen or two in our time.

That is a definite.

This morning I read someones status update on Facebook and they had written the lyrics to "Forever in Blue Jeans".

It is a great song. 

However, for years I misheard the lyrics.

When Neil Diamond sang Forever in Blue Jeans, 

I heard him sing Reverend Eugene.

What tips this little anecdote to the pathetic side of the spectrum is that I knew the song title and wondered what that had to do with the song. 

However,

I still maintain that it was a plausible error.

Listen...

My other beauty was with Lionel Ritchie's "Hello".

You know that adorable love song,

where he sings

'I want to tell you so much I love you'

Yes, well I misheard that to be

'I want to tell you SOBER I love you.'

I didn't find out that I was wrong until I lived in Lithuania.

I was singing it one day and the guy who ran the hostel Valdas

started looking at me rather strangely.

As I kept singing he burst out laughing and simply said

'I don't think that song means what you think Louise, but that is a very Irish way of singing it.'

Confused, I looked up the lyrics and subsequently cringed.

Again, I reckon it was an easy mistake to make.

What do you think?

Apparently, there are some song titles that just lead to worldwide confusion. One of the biggest offenders is:

Bathroom on the right

 Malapropisms  can lead to funny instances too...

I saw this sketch this morning and it cracked me up

So, do you have any Mondegreens to share?