Mondegreens.

A friend from years ago upon hearing “Bridge over troubled water” admitting she’d always thought the lyrics were “Like a bird over frozen water” I still smile thinking back.

Blossoming

A well known one from Jimi Hendrix- ‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy.

I’ve just googled it because I had no idea he wasn’t kissing a guy.

Fifty years of getting it wrong. 😮😂

Slightly off topic but I was at a do in the summer where we had words of popular songs to join in with. Among them them was Come On Eileen. Several of us were very shocked at the lyrics of the verses as we had never properly heard them before and had all innocently danced to it and sung along with the chorus many times before. They are very rude.

A new shop opened in the city I lived in it was BG's, I always got mixed up and called it BJ's, until dd's who were teenagers at the time explained what the abbreviation I had used meant I never made the mistake again.

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
Four hundred children had a crap in the fields. . .

Louis Armstrong. What a wonderful World. I thought he sang The dogs say goodnight. Until I read the lyrics. , It was the The dark sacred night. I think I like my version best. !!

I used to think Paul and Barry Ryan’s, ‘Don’t bring me your heartaches, I can’t help you none’ was, ‘Don’t bring me your hard eggs, I can’t help you, Nun.’

Our eldest daughter at age three joyfully joined in with:
Pink Floyd "Falling over just another brick in the hall" and
Ian Dury and the Blockheads " Hit me with your wooden stick"

‘These curtains are cheapest’ - should be The first cut is the deepest!

I thought of another the other day, courtesy of Good King Wenceslas.

‘When the snow lay round about,
Deep and Christmas even.’

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