What’s your favourite mondegreen?

My partially deaf mother used to sing what she thought were the words of a hymn as 'Itchy on earth hath you none'. I think the real line was 'Yet ye on earth hath union'.

“Stand in your dinner your mummy or your life”
Adam Ant

Nine stone instead of rhine stone cowboy. (Glen Campbell). Not your usual cowboy physique!

Grannybags

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

My brother and I were convinced that Dusty sang, "You don't have to say I'm lovely just because I am." Egotistical or what, hee hee?!

I thought it was "Felines on your shirt "not 3 lions
And "we'll call it a tramp" not caught in a trap!

For years I thought that Chris Rea's "Stainsby girl" was a Sainsburys girl.

Lin52, you made me smile and think of a time I was with my 4 year old grandson (now 24) We ere in a huge post office with an equally huge line of people waiting to be served. My grandsons name is Asher.

So when the automated tannoy voice came over saying ‘Cashier number 5 please’ he looked at me unable to contain his excitement saying ‘that lady knows my name’!!! He misheard cashier for Asher!

Peter Kay has a very funny video that’s been around for ages…on this very subject

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

Makes me smile every time ?

Michael Jackson "....the chair is not my son..."

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

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'

Has this clip been posted already??

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnlveKfDuyk

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

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

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

But what about the child he-bears?

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!

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.

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

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.

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!)

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".

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

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

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 ?”

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