What’s your favourite mondegreen?

Being a bit deaf I am always singing the wrong words but they make perfect sence to me. The earliest one was when we used to sing the national anthem in school. I would sing "Send her to victoria happy and glorious, put the rains over her. Dad heard me one day and thought it was so funny.

Hi, Applegran,
I don't recognise the ' Betty Martin' line, the one I remember children mishearing from the Latin Mass was
' Me a cowboy, me a cowboy, me a Mexican cowboy '
instead of
'Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.'

Also, from the English translation of the Salve Regina,
'To thee do we cry, poor Spanish children of Eve,'
instead of 'banished children ' !!

I'm enjoying this thread

Always thought....
Wake up in the morning
Baked beans for breakfast
Oh oh my ears are alight ?

This thread has been so funny. Robin Hood and his bandy men, Ruby not taking her gloves to town, the nine stone cowboy....

And it’s good to know I’m not the only one who believes in manchero(n)s!

Thanks, GrammarGrandma, I only ever listened to the aria and have been too lazy to look up the translation.

Another vote for 'with my mancherons' in Golden Brown, I still hear it even though I now know the correct lyrics.
Also, from I'd Really Love To See You Tonight - 'I'm not talking 'bout the linen'. The actual lyric is 'movin in' but it's strange to have the emphasis on the second half of the word 'moVIN in'.

Procul Harem - Whiter Shade of Pale - 15 vestless urchins heading for the coast. I wonder if the Vestal Virgins felt sorry for them.

Popadom Peach: Madonna’s Papa Don’t Preach ??‍♀️
I Will Always Love Hugh: Witney Houston’s I will Always Love You??‍♀️
Celine Dion’s Theme from The Titanic: I Believe the Hotdogs go on ??‍♀️

My daughter came home from school singing
Who built the ark, no one no one!
It made us giggle. ?

Ooooo Maggiemaybe you have made my day completely!!! - What an absolute HOOT!!
I have sung "mancherons" [re Golden Brown] to this very day!!
Never thought to look up the actual lyrics!!
I am completely corpsing here - havn't been able to type this for a full 10 minutes from laughing - thank you

In a busy pub garden when our young son was running around the place and we were afraid he’d crash into my husband who was carrying a tray full of drinks - “be careful, or you’ll upset the tray!”
Our son stopped short and asked wonderingly-
“Does the tray have feelings then daddy ?”

In the Lord’s Prayer. “Hallo what’s thy name?”

Apparently my DH used to sing “Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas tree how lovely are your brown chairs’.

Blossoming

A mondegreen is a misheard lyric or phrase that seems to make sense but has a completely different meaning to the actual words used. It comes from a mishearing of a poem that read ‘They have slain the Earl of Moray and Lady Mondegreen. Except it really read ‘They have slain the Earl of Murray and laid him on the green’.

My own favourite, courtesy of a little niece, is that well known song by John Travolta and Olivia Newton John, from Grease, “You’re the Wizard of Oz, ooh ooh ooh”.

That's funny. My husband has his own version, "You're the will of the woll, you are the will a woll, ooh ooh ooh, honey".

I asked Our daughter, after watching the film “Goodnight Mr Tom” on her own:
“Did you enjoy the film?”
“Yes - but I didn’t like the part where he got locked in a cupboard for being a brass beaver ...”
( .... blasphemer!)

When I was working in a playgroup we taught the children Yellow Submarine because we were putting on a play about under the sea. We were practicing one day and I realised the little boy next to me was singing “we all live in a yellow rubber ring”. I always sing that now.

My most embarrassing one was as a teen I liked the song Night Boat To Dalton. There’s a line that goes “ with an oar in ‘is ‘and floats off down the river Nile”. In honestly thought they were singing “with an ‘hore (whore) in ‘is ‘and blow jobs down the river Nile” I was with a bunch of friends and mentioned I was amazed they played something so rude on the BBC! Cue much laughter.

Our daughter came home from school one day and told us that Hitler had died in his bunk bed!

These are so funny!
And I've learned a new word today - thanks OP.

My youngest used to sing "Oh bite me, bite me" instead of "Oh baby, baby" to Baby One More Time by Britney Spears.

merlotgran

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.

Same here!

Can a mother's tender cares
Cease towards the child she-bears?

But what about the child he-bears?

Oh Dear!! How I have laughed!! These are soooo funny.

'till morning is night' was confusing for me - surely that just means all day long!

Has this clip been posted already??

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnlveKfDuyk

I think the phrase "All my eye and Betty Martin' comes from the Latin mass - but have no idea what the original words were.
I have heard of a child who used to pray 'Our Father Whichart......" And someone I know used to sing in a carol "Most highly flavoured gravy' in place of 'most highly favoured lady'

I used to think Enya was singing "....save the Whales, save the Whales" rather than sail away!