What’s your favourite mondegreen?

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

fiorentina51

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

what is the next line ???

there is a pop song, rather mournful sounding, from the ?60s,

ooh ee my hearts delight,
lost in the wind where momas don't count.

i know those can't be the real words, but no idea what the real words are, or even the name of the song. i could hum it but that's no good here. don;t suppose anyone can help ?

The Stranglers. Golden brown, texture like sun, lays me down with my mancheros.

I never really questioned what those mancheros were. His South American posse? A bag of tasty snacks? I only found out fairly recently that it's "with my mind she runs".

my darling late partner used to sing as an english child in a remote welsh hillside chapel, in the 1940s ::

do you know cynthia blackshirt...

well he didn;t, so thought no more about it.
until years later in london decided to go to the church at the end of the road, where for the first time he had an actual hymn book, and hearing a familiar tune, was surprised to read:
do no sinful action, ...

we three kings of orrey and tar.

i assumed they were names of far-off places.

here are some more

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

The Spinners Ghetto Child - As a angsty teenager I always thought I could relate to as I happily sang along -
"life ain't so easy when you're against the tide"

Only in the last few years have I discovered it's:
Life and so easy when you're a Ghetto Child. ?

Ronnie Molar, Ronnie Molar, my cup's full of Ronnie Molar, when I was 4 or 5. Ronnie was my little pal. My cup really should have been running over.

My daughter a very young ABBA fan always used to sing “Super trooper, beans are going to blind you”! Beware of the beans!

Without a city wall. Why didn’t it have one ?

I’m really enjoying the read!??

I always thought Mary was full of grapes because we were blessing the fruit of her womb.

My cousin recited this for years before someone corrected him:

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed are the monkeys swimming...

(Should be ‘blessed art thou amongst women’)

Thy bountiful mare, what tongue can recite
It breathes in the air;
it shines in the light;
it streams from the hills,
it descends to the plain,
and gently returns to its stable again.

Church choir used to sing this and see if the organist noticed!

‘A wean in a manger’ ?

For those unfamiliar with Scots, a wean (pronounced wane) is a baby or child.

Child at school sang Harry Hoover for Hallelujah

My DD when at nursery school came home singing
‘Poor Jenny is a weakling, a weakling a weakling’.
??

DD Sung with gusto at church:
All things bright & beautiful, all pizzas great and small......
... The purple hairy mountains .....

Hadn't heard of 'mondegreen' Thanks Blossoming
Every day's a school day.?

Back to Grease,
Tony Moore, Tony Moore, did you get very far?
Tony Moore, Tony Moore , like did he have a car?
Etc etc
Small daughter was convinced.

"Harold be thy name"

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

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

And also Suedonim I can see Deirdre now Lorraine has gone.

At the end of the chorus of Hi Ho Silver Lining, my friend used to sing " But I won't make a fuss, blowing coffee dust". We couldn't convince her that the correct lyric was "But I won't make a fuss, though it's obvious"! x