What’s your favourite mondegreen?

Ronnie Molar, Ronnie Molar, my cup's full of Ronnie Molar, when I was 4 or 5. Ronnie was my little pal. My cup really should have been running over.

The Spinners Ghetto Child - As a angsty teenager I always thought I could relate to as I happily sang along -
"life ain't so easy when you're against the tide"

Only in the last few years have I discovered it's:
Life and so easy when you're a Ghetto Child. ?

here are some more

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7my5baoCVv8

we three kings of orrey and tar.

i assumed they were names of far-off places.

my darling late partner used to sing as an english child in a remote welsh hillside chapel, in the 1940s ::

do you know cynthia blackshirt...

well he didn;t, so thought no more about it.
until years later in london decided to go to the church at the end of the road, where for the first time he had an actual hymn book, and hearing a familiar tune, was surprised to read:
do no sinful action, ...

The Stranglers. Golden brown, texture like sun, lays me down with my mancheros.

I never really questioned what those mancheros were. His South American posse? A bag of tasty snacks? I only found out fairly recently that it's "with my mind she runs".

there is a pop song, rather mournful sounding, from the ?60s,

ooh ee my hearts delight,
lost in the wind where momas don't count.

i know those can't be the real words, but no idea what the real words are, or even the name of the song. i could hum it but that's no good here. don;t suppose anyone can help ?

fiorentina51

My favourite is...
"Ooh, ohhh, me ears are alight."

what is the next line ???

You don't have to say you love me just because of ham - Dusty Springfield

I always wondered, as a child, who Round John Virgin was.

welbeck

fiorentina51

My favourite is...
"Ooh, ohhh, me ears are alight."

what is the next line ???

Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir
So that every mouth can be fed
Ooh, ohh, me ears are alight ?

Desmond Dekker and the Aces

“Pity mice in Plicity” . Wherever Plicity is, it’s obviously not a good place for mice.

(One of the lines in ‘Gentle Jesus meek and mild’ is “Pity my simplicity”.)

Blossoming

welbeck

fiorentina51

My favourite is...
"Ooh, ohhh, me ears are alight."

what is the next line ???

Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir
So that every mouth can be fed
Ooh, ohh, me ears are alight ?

Desmond Dekker and the Aces

The Israelites

Every time you go away you take a piece of meat with you - by Paul Young I think

The song used as the introduction for Anne with an E by The Tragically Hip :

"Illusions of Santé"
And
"You are an Egocentric"

Actually
"With illusions of Someday"
And
"You are Ahead by a Century"

welbeck

there is a pop song, rather mournful sounding, from the ?60s,

ooh ee my hearts delight,
lost in the wind where momas don't count.

i know those can't be the real words, but no idea what the real words are, or even the name of the song. i could hum it but that's no good here. don;t suppose anyone can help ?

Could that be The Israelites as well, welbeck? Those words would fit in well with me ears are alight......

Ooh, ooh, me ears are alight.......

can't stop laughing!

Googling Mondegreen just discovered another of my misconceptions:

Manfred Mann
"Blinded By the Light
Revved up like a drive
Another runner in the night" - as you all know.

My version: Not even the example given: -

Wrapped up like Medusa
And a roller in the night.

DM was right - She always complained you couldn't hear the words in modern music.

When I was a telephone operator, we used to sometimes answer with, instead of "number please", "rubber knees", said very quickly, nobody noticed.

Pred. Text got me again.
"Revved up like a deuce"

Is this the real life
Or is this just Battersea. (Queen)

Incidentally, I always thought the words to Israelites were:

Wake up in the morning
Starving for breakfast.

I’ve learnt something new today!

I thought K D Lang was singing about constant gravy.

Adam Ant - Prince Charming. I could have sworn he sang ‘A bit peculiar, nothing to be scared of’. It was, of course, ‘Ridicule is nothing to be scared of’.

It was a long time before I saw the words of a certain Don Williams song written down. Until then I thought he was singing "Living on toast and time", and wondered why, then found it was "Living on Tulsa time"!

For many years I happily sang what I thought was a fun nonsense song :- Mairsie dotes and dozey dotes and little amsey tivey. A kiddle etivie too, wouldn't you?

Actual words:- Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat Ivy too. Wouldn't you.

I will never understand why my family never put me right on this. I was a reasonably articulate child......?? I was an adult when discovered this quite by chance. Blimey!