What’s your favourite mondegreen?

I thought a Hawaiian guitar was a hwang guitar. because of the slidey sound they make

Years ago Noel Edmonds had a 'misheard lyrics' phone in.
My favourite was,
'You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille. four hundred children and a crop in the field.'

Or ‘take your teeth out’ as my mum used to say!

When I was a child I used to think that the line "round yon virgin mother and child" in the hymn Silent Night was "brown young virgin".

My little DGD would sing that Miss Polly called for a doctor with a dick,dick,dick

Really enjoying this, and I’d never heard of mondegreen either, so thanks GN for a new word. Mind you, someone had to explain “gaslighting” to me recently. Must get out more...

Mine was “I believe in milko” instead of miracles!

"I was sick and tired of everythiiiing
When I called you last night from Tesco"

SuperTrouper by ABBA. Should be "when I called you last night from Glasgow"

"Away in a manger, no crepe for a bed."
Have a look at Peter Kay's misheard lyrics on YouTube, its hilarious.

There’s a worm at the bottom of the garden
And his name is William Brew!

Ooh ooh me knees are alive - by Desmond Decker and the Israelites . ??

Ekwanimitee the opera is Rigoletto, the aria is La donna è mobile and the "elephant's ears," which I think we have all heard, are: "e di pensier," meaning "and her mind" after "muta l'accento" = she changes her voice ... and her mind."

Nativity play
'The baby was born in a stapler'

'Spare him his life and his pork sausages.' Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.

'Young girls with eyes like potatoes.' La Isla Bonita (I think) by Madonna.

No idea what either of them should be.

My GS as a toddler used to sing ‘glad tidings we bring to you and your kids’ (We wish you a merry Christmas)

In the National Anthem

"send her Victorias"

I'm crying with laughter!!!
Not a lyric, just me crying with laughter!

Back in the seventies I used to gaily song “ oh, oh my ears are alight “ when I know know the word was ‘Israelites’ !!

My grandaughter used to sing Noah’s brother built the arc instead of brother Noah etc. She once asked me what Noah’s brother was named.

I had s boyfriend back in the eighties who thought that the Jam's hit record was Eating Trifle.

More recently, Are we Human,or are we Hamster? has provided much amusement.

Niochorio - just saw your post, Desmond Deckers pronunciation has a lot to answer for!!??

My DD (now 35) used to sing “Freedom Whoa” to the band aid line feed the world. It’s stuck in our family now.

While shepherds washed their socks at night.

As a young child at the end of each prayer - 'Our Men'. Well it was shortly after the war and I'd assumed it related to the military, having just moved into a new area, I was still getting used to the local accent.

Thank you all for the laughs.

Actually, Baubles " A wean in a manger, no crib for a bed,
The little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head" does make better sense.

I can't be the only one who spent all Primary 1 singing "Jesus bits of shine with a pure clear light," can I?

"Jesus bids us shine with a pure clear light"

Hadn't heard the Thames station in the Lord's Prayer before either.

Here in Denmark we have some sweets called piratos - they are a bit like Pontefract cakes. A child was heard praying with conviction "crucified under tons of piratos" when of course he should have said " crucified under Pontius Pilate" in the Nicene creed.