What’s your favourite mondegreen?

'Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord, and let the petrol light shine upon them...."

Said by a little chap in my mum's class many years ago, but I still think of it when I hear this prayer!

Petrol = Perpetual

Mine is.. ?"Tonight I cellotape my glove to you" ?

Continued.. meaning ? tonight I celebrate my love to you ..? ( or .. for you ??)

Bluebelle.. it is " another one bites the dust "

Rasputin by Boney M
'There was a cat-flap, then he was gone'
It's actually 'There was a cat that really was gone'

We are family by Sister Sledge

"Just let me state for the record" misheard as "Just let me staple the vicar" .. on Peter Kay's misheard lyrics.

Everytime I hear the song it reminds me

W

Speaking of The Israelites, who remembers this ad?
youtu.be/clD6J9OmkJI

And then there's this one...

youtu.be/VWqC4KKiVbU

In ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’ my brother used to sing “Christ, the royal Master, leans against the phone” (leads against the foe).
My daughter had a music teacher with rather a posh voice. In the Christmas Carol ‘Oh Christmas Tree’ DD used to sing “How lovely are your brown chest” because Miss sang it as ‘brahnches’
I love the Peter Kay video, especially ‘Just want to staple the Vicar!’

One kid in my class "Our lady of the petrol sucker" for our lady of the perpetual succour

Auld Lang syne - Old mans eye
My brother sang this for years

Blossoming

welbeck

fiorentina51

My favourite is...
"Ooh, ohhh, me ears are alight."

what is the next line ???

Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir
So that every mouth can be fed
Ooh, ohh, me ears are alight ?

Desmond Dekker and the Aces

I always thought it was "Get up in the morning, same thing for breakfast"

Not sleeping (what's new?) and this thread has been great company, although I've had to stifle laughter many times in case I wake my OH.
Great thread Blossoming. Mondegreen is new to me too.

My son used to sing " Don't cry for me Sergeant Tina". ( From Evita)

I used to sing "He's wearing his Mackinson" (fron The Hollies song He aint Heavy.... 'His welfare is my concern". I thought it was a type of coat.

Helen Wheels by Wings was out when I met my husband to be. He insisted that it was Hell on Wheels.
Our first argument ❤️?

My own favourite is “Somewhere over the rainbow weigh a pie”

My youngest sister used to say cosbe instead of because. It was because our mother used to get us to sing We're off to see the Wizard, when walking to church, or any longish walk. The correct lyrics are be..cause,be..cause,be..cause. She thought it was cosbe, cosbe...

I used to sing I'm the end-it-all man. (Neanderthal). I can't believe I didn't know the word.

I've had fun reading these to my husband.

One of my favourites is from Dave Allen who attended a funeral as a child and thought the priest was saying
" In the name of the father and of the son and into the hole he goes"

My cousin used to say Our father was shot in heaven.

These are all lovely. Keep them coming. Wish I could think of one...........

Lol you're too clever! ? NotTooOld I can recount loads - trying to space them out ?

Grandma70s

The carol Gabriel’s Message apparently contains the line “Most highly flavoured gravy”.

(“Most highly favoured lady”,)

My husband sings that just to annoy me - works every time

I saw a Utube video of Tommy Robinson (the far right wing British activist) supporters chanting support for him and it sounded 100% like "Gobby, Gobby, Gobby, Gobby Robinson" evidently the "Gobby" should have sounded like "Tommy", but the "Gobby" certainly fitted better. Although his real name is evidently Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, who knows why he doesn't use it?

DC1 said ‘cheeses’ when I asked what they’d been learning about at school that day. A bit of an odd subject for 5 year olds I thought. ‘Cheeses?’ I asked ‘what did you learn about cheeses? The reply was a bit impatient ‘We learned a song about little Baby Cheeses (Jesus).