Misheard song lyrics

A Wayne in a manger
Be grateful in bed

My Dd came home from play group singing
‘Poor Jenny is a weakling’

Babs03

Maggiemaybe

Golden brown, texture like sun
Lays me down, with my mancheros…

I never questioned what a manchero was. If I’d been asked I might have said some sort of tasty snack.

It’s “with my mind she runs”, apparently.

I thought it was ‘with my mancheros’.
Imagined that mancheros was Spanish for a lover or someone with golden brown skin.
🤨

Golden brown is about heroin - certainly no lover with golden skin!

Bohemian Rhapsody
Actual words: spare him his life from this monstrosity
What I heard: spare him his life from these pork sausages

Golden brown is about heroin - certainly no lover with golden skin!

According to the writer, Hugh Cornwell, it’s about heroin and his girlfriend at the time.

He’d probably have been better off sticking to a bag of cheesy puffs.

Gingster

My Dd came home from play group singing
‘Poor Jenny is a weakling’

Speak as a Jenny I agree 😂

Thy foot heel not let slide

Where did the term mondegreen come from?
The term was coined in 1954 in a story in Harper's Magazine. Writer Sylvia Wright had misheard the words of the centuries-old Scottish ballad, The Bonny Earl of Murray, mistaking “They have slain the Earl of Murray and laid him on the green”, for, 'They have slain the Earl of Murray and Lady Mondegreen'.4 Jul 2022

'About three feet from the pin'!

Row, Row, Row your boat life is buttercream!! Took years before I realised it should have been Life is but a dream!!

Gladly, my cross-eyed bear

Maggiemaybe

Golden brown, texture like sun
Lays me down, with my mancheros…

I never questioned what a manchero was. If I’d been asked I might have said some sort of tasty snack.

It’s “with my mind she runs”, apparently.

It was and will forever remain 'mancheros' in my mind 😁

I think that Chuck Berry's "my ding a ling" had the word "vestibule" in one lyric. Having never heard that word in real life, I sang along with the "best of you",

There are still countless old songs whose lyrics I have never been able to make out, and happily sing along to with my own approximation whenever they are played.

Boney M Brown Girl in the Ring - she looked like a sugar in a plum plum plum. I always heard and sang it as She looked like a bugger in the the sun, sun sun.