What’s your favourite mondegreen?

My cousin who has Down’s syndrome loves to sing. He’s a big Elvis fan. He used to sing In the Gateau (ghetto). He even used to burst into a rendition of In the Gateau if he was served cake for dessert.

For Golden Brown he sang Gordon Brown and if Gordon Brown appeared on tv he would sing it.

My daughter as a young child when shopping one day sat down and said "I am NOT going into Marks and Spensives again!"

Been known as that ever since!

When my DD was four years old, she would not accept that:
'Away in a Manger, no crisps in the bed' , was incorrect!
She did love her food though!

In "Christmas Carol " which they had seen on TV, a friend thought Bob Cratchit was Pork Scratchings and had done for years.
When the children were small we had dancadils and paterkillers in the garden.
A child I taught said she liked me better with stip lick.

From Black Velvet Band by The Dubliners- "And her hairy tongue over her shoulder, Tied up with a black velvet band."

It's really "And her hair, it hung over her shoulder" but I prefer the hairy tongue interpretation.

When my sister was very small and the other children were playing at Dr Who she came home saying: “l am a toilet.”

WHEN I WAS 5 YEARS OLD I HAD TO LEARN THE HAIL MARY AND THE WHOLE CLASS PRAYED AND FORGIVE US OUR SCISSORS [SINNERS]NOW AND AT THE HOUR OF OUR DEATH AMEN.

I thought “ Poetry in Motion” was “Oh, a tree in motion.” Until someone pointed out my error.

My husband as a child thought that the last line of Rudolf the Red Nosed reindeer was. “you’ll go down and kiss Doreen”

A Paul Young song " every time you go away you take a piece of meat (me) with you"

My 4 year old grandson is a bit of an ABBA fan and sings along to Super Trouper
But he insists that the following line
“was sick and tired of everything
When I called you last night from Glasgow”

Is ……….”when I called you last night from TESCO”

All in Sunbury ( All in sundry)

My daughter thought God was called Peter, because we would say “Thanks Peter God” - thanks be to God.

does anyone recognise a line from a pop song of the 60s-70s?
"blue, blue, my heart is blue"
if so, what is the next line, as it has been suggested as my mishearing.

Is it "blue is my heart now I'm without you"?

welbeck is this the song?

youtu.be/gais6TIWTqQ

Crossed posts AGAA4 !

yes ! that's it. think i had only ever heard an instrumental version, don't remember any words, except those i imagined.
so it was mournful. never heard of marty robbins, but like it.
many thanks for the information.

These are hilarious... I haven't laughed so much in ages! Thank you so much for starting this thread.

Not as funny as most of these but my granddaughter used to sing

'Pat a cake, pat a cake, bacon man.'

Return to Zenda!

'Words' by the Bee Gees. When my DD was little she always sang 'Worms' instead and it caught on with all the family: "It's only worms, and worms are all you need ....."

Back in the 80s when I was at school Feargal Sharkey sang about a 'Good Heart', which, as a bunch of teenagers, we changed to a 'Good Fart', with (our version of) the chorus being ...

And a good fart
These days, is hard to hide
A good faaaaart, the lasting kind
A good fart
These days, is hard to hide
So please be gentle with this nose of mine

Yes, we were a bunch of typical teenagers but even now almost 40yrs later, if I hear this song on the radio when I'm in my case, I just can't help singing our 'fart' version ?

46Maggiemaybe, I thought it was my mancheros too!

Yes I agree I was brought up in Southampton which had a city wall but I knew other towns and cities didn’t. So it made sense to me as a child that having a city wall or not was an important thing.

kittylester

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

We also have a daughter called Susannah and that was a favourite variation with us!