What’s your favourite mondegreen?

I still sing, 'O no, O no, onomatopoeia' instead of,

'I don't, I don't, I don't wanna be ya'

Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy.

And at school I thought John Peel's name was Ken John Peel.

mrswoo

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!

Isn’t that the vitalite margarine advert ?

Kim19

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!

That’s how it was meant to be sung

As a child at church my mother eventually worked out I was singing...
“There is a city bright, closed are it’s gates to sin,
Not Auntie Violet, not Auntie Violet shall ever enter in”

She told the family and great Aunt Violet was not amused.

Whilst standing in an upstairs room looking out at the houses, I asked my uncle "who lives there then?"
"Hilary Pute" he replied. "Pute, what an unusual name" I said.
"No no" my uncle replied. " She's of ill repute" !!

Maggiemaybe

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......

no, not the israelites one, i know that one, and like it.
i did wonder when ~my ears are alight~ was mentioned, but no.
the israelites has a much more definite strong sound to me.
the one i'm thinking of could be a bit folksy even, wistful.
~this was a good idea, OP, thanks; so much clean fun had by everyone.

Lucca, call me stupid but, why?

DS1 came home from school and announced that he was going to learn to play the goose necked guitar.
Of course he meant an acoustic guitar.

I haven't read all comments through properly I confess but has anyone mentioned 'spare him his life for his pork sausages' in Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody?

Kim19

Lucca, call me stupid but, why?

It was a novelty song published as Mairzy Dotes.

From Uptown Top Rankin by Althea and Donna.
Sime in my halterback, Sime give your arse a slap (heart attack)

This thread keeps jogging my memory.
Here's one I try to forget because DM laughed so much. Coming home from school I told her we'd been learning about Copper Knickers.

Copernicus

Every now and again I have to look at this YouTube clip. It has me in hysterics. There are others similar, with different interpretations.

youtu.be/nIwrgAnx6Q8

Another one courtesy of DD2 - always around food ?
The lords prayer
....and give us our rice crispies for ever and ever Amen.

Our eldest daughter is called Susannah which is why our children always sang 'Sing Susannah' rather than 'Sing Hosanna'!

The carol Gabriel’s Message apparently contains the line “Most highly flavoured gravy”.

(“Most highly favoured lady”,)

When ever we visited GD, DD2 would run to the dining-room the minute Pa said, "we'll close the curtains to keep the draught out"

Then one day, many years later DD2 said, "I never saw the giraffes at GDs."

I didn't know the word mondegreen either, interesting one for word games.

"Ruby don't take your gloves to town" we still mention that to my daughter now now 52.

My brother's rendition of Jingle Bells:

"Oh, what fun a hist'ry ride..."

Also Taylor Swift's "Blank Space":

"Gotta lot of Starbucks lovers..."

My two DDs when they were young would sing:

"Robin Hood, Robin Hood riding through the glen.
Robin Hood, Robin Hood with his bandy men."

Every time you go away you take a piece of meat with you. (Can’t remember the artist sorry!)

My daughter used to get the giggles over the Lord’s Prayer. She thought it was Hello Ed be thy name.

It would help if people gave us the original version. I don’t get many of these references. I had to google the Auntie Violet one.

"Thy foot heel not let slide"

From metrical psalm 121 " I to the hills will lift mine eyes". Good idea Grandma!