Mondegreens.

As a child I thought Baa Baa Black sheep’s last line was “for the little boy who lives down the drain.” Never could understand why!

The latest from the grandchildren when singing along to ‘Wham’
“Last Christmas I gave you my heart
And the very next day, you sold it on eBay”
🎶

25Avalon

As a child I thought Baa Baa Black sheep’s last line was “for the little boy who lives down the drain.” Never could understand why!

That's like my noisy sewing one . The world must be a bewildering place for children. I suppose they just accept what they don't understand as there is so much confusion.

My daughter had to learn the song "Happiness Is" for an infant school assembly. Her version was "Having a Zizz"!!!

(Daughter) 'Every time you go away - you take a piece of meat with you!'

There’s a station called Drem in Scotland, (Fife?) and it was a chilly place. The kids who went via it to school in Haddington used to adapt the Lord’s Prayer to “ and lead us not into Drem station”
Clever I thought.

Urmstongran

The latest from the grandchildren when singing along to ‘Wham’
“Last Christmas I gave you my heart
And the very next day, you sold it on eBay”
🎶

I think that's a pretty good lyric for our times!

Thy foot heel not let slide

From the Hail Mary prayer: "Blessed art thou a monk swimming."

Lucca

There’s a station called Drem in Scotland, (Fife?) and it was a chilly place. The kids who went via it to school in Haddington used to adapt the Lord’s Prayer to “ and lead us not into Drem station”
Clever I thought.

Drem is in East Lothian, not Fife.

I've just remembered being quite young and singing along to my favourite song at that time "Feeling Grooby"
My family teased me relentlessly about that and it really embarrassed me to this day.
Grooby, indeed!

For years I thought the line from Paul Simon's 'Gracelands' 'The way she brushed her hair from her forehead' was 'she brushed her hair and farted'....

Westlife: I'll be ok now. Misheard as. I'll be your caveman!

A Wayne in a manger
Be grateful in bed.

Hetty58

(Daughter) 'Every time you go away - you take a piece of meat with you!'

My son sang that too!

My school friend used to sing "You don't have to say you love me just because of ham"

Because of ham 😂

Mairsie dotes and dosey dotes and little amsy tivey. A kiddley tivey too, wouldn't you?

Reality..... Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy too, wouldn't you?

Much too embarrassing to declare what age I was before discovering this was not just a nonsense song!

Desmond Dekker and The Isrealites - or as I prefer it -Me ears are alight.

My grandmother told me that for years she used to sing a hymn about Gladly the cross-eyed bear.

DS aged 4. Away in a manger, no crisps for a bed

I love the classic Beatles one, The girl with colitis goes by.

MissAdventure

I've just remembered being quite young and singing along to my favourite song at that time "Feeling Grooby"
My family teased me relentlessly about that and it really embarrassed me to this day.
Grooby, indeed!

There's a village near Leicester called Groby, pronounced "Grooby". Perhaps that's what the locals sing.

Are the residents known as Groobers?

I have always posted a link to a YouTube clip of Carmina Burana when this subject comes up; it always has me in hysterics. I've discovered a new one -

youtu.be/Y88vF0l8FDo

I hope you find it as funny as I do.

Kim19

Mairsie dotes and dosey dotes and little amsy tivey. A kiddley tivey too, wouldn't you?

Reality..... Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy too, wouldn't you?

Much too embarrassing to declare what age I was before discovering this was not just a nonsense song!

We sang this a lot when we were kids, Kim19. Once we knew the "translation" we used to end it with "clog" instead of 'wooden shoe'. 😁

Luckygirl3

A Wayne in a manger
Be grateful in bed.

I like that one it reminds me of work, I always got. We three Kings off Orient Far ,One in a taxi one in a car. DH knew a ruder version and the little boy who sang this in the Christmas Nativity also flashed at the same time,I had told them to get undressed and put the nativity close on he went one further and took his briefs off.