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Re: Mondegreens

Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 4:47 pm
by Mark Deeks
You're The One That I Want, beginning at the 2 minute mark:
If you're filled with affection,
You're to shy to convey,
Betta take my direction.
And not, as I thought:
If you're filled with affection,
You're to shy to convey,
Maintain my erection

Re: Mondegreens

Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 5:44 pm
by Marc Meakin
That's what happens when you think about it too hard

Re: Mondegreens

Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 5:48 pm
by Marc Meakin
The one that used to get me was the opening line of Big Mouth Strikes Again by the Smiths
Sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking when I said I'd like to smash a greeters in your head
instead of every tooth in your head

Re: Mondegreens

Posted: Sun May 23, 2021 12:15 pm
by Mark James
So I just found out today that there is speculation that Yanis Varoufakis' wife is the subject of Pulp's Common People. In finding this out I also came across someone who thought the lyric was "She came from Greece she had a thirst for Norwich".

Re: Mondegreens

Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:09 am
by Jon O'Neill
The Black Keys - Gotta Get Away

"I went from Xanadu to Kalamazoo"
Apparently it's San Berdoo.

Re: Mondegreens

Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2021 4:08 pm
by Fred Mumford
I remember my disappointment when I realised that the lyric in Creeque Alley about who is sat in the coffee shop is really (John) "Sebastian" rather than "the bastards".

Re: Mondegreens

Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2021 9:49 am
by Marc Meakin
Apart from the obvious Sue Lawley /So Lonely mondegreen The Police have another one.
In Message in a Bottle, I hear the lyric A year has passed since I broke my nose instead of the more obvious wrote my note

Re: Mondegreens

Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:41 pm
by Fiona T
Howard Jones - New Song

Shout out to the menopausal ladies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fjg7N_mGaU&t=61s

"Throw off your menstrual chains"

(good excuse for a bit of 80s pop - I had a Howard Jones haircut when I was 15 :) )