What’s your favourite mondegreen?

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

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 ??‍♀️

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

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'.

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

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!

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

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

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.

My husband has absolutely loads of lyrics he’s got wrong over the years!
All sing Matilda - Waltzing Matilda
I’m a Thai girl - I’m a tiger (Lulu)
The night has a thousand knives - The night has a thousand eyes
And perhaps the best one
Apollo dives to her - apologise to her (She loves you, The Beatles)

I'm a Surviver by Destineys Child. It always sounds as if they are singing about a Bus Driver at one point.

Bohemian Raspsody ....just gotta right out of Mia .
A hymn at school always confused me. The lyric was 'nobody knows the trouble I see'. I heard it as 'nobody knows the trampoline sea'.

"Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet eating her curtains away."
I can still remember wondering why anyone would eat their curtains.

Sex on fire by Kings of Leon

Woah Oh Oh Oh Oh your socks are on fire

Gcs sing this in the car and I just love it.

From the Bear Necessities: My daughter when young used to sing “Forget about your worries and your stripes”.

Good King Wenless last looked out. But have to admit I was wrong with lots of songs before it was confirmed Was partially deaf in both ears!

Go and get stuffed
When the going gets tough-Billy Ocean

Four hundred Children and a chop in the field
Ruby don’t take your love to town

From Bohemian Rhapsody, my husband always sings "spare him his life for his warm sausages"

We're having big fun by Inner City, sounds like 'we're having meatballs'.

EllanVannin

"And lead us not into Thames station". Lord's Prayer.

...and deliver us from Eve Hill. It's a place near where I live, well known in the area.

Bringing in the sheep, bringing in the sheep, we will go rejoicing bringing in the sheep. I still sing this even though I now know it should be sheaves.

The backing line to Elvis's Teddy Bear is surely the repetition of 'hot banana'. I think it really is...unless anyone knows otherwise.

I'm crying with laughter at some of these...

At Christmastime 'A weighing a Major'.

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!

Well, I never! Kim19 I thought I was singing the right words, till you posted.
Never too old to learn.

The song by REM the sidewinder sleeps tonight, sounds like “only cheryl baker” it should be “call me when you try to wake her”