Misheard song lyrics

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.

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.

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 😁

Gladly, my cross-eyed bear

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

'About three feet from the pin'!

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

Thy foot heel not let slide

Gingster

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

Speak as a Jenny I agree 😂

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.

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

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!

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

A Wayne in a manger
Be grateful in bed

For a long time, my late husband thought that the line in Bohemian Rhapsody was "spare him his life for his warm sausages". (I think the correct version is spare him his life for this monstrosity.)

keep them coming, I'm sore laughing...

We’re making love in a Femidom

(We are family, Sister Sledge)

When I was at school I really did think that the words were:-

All things bright and beautiful.
All teachers great and small.

and

Away in a manger no crib for a bed
The little Malteser lay down his sweet head

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.
🤨

You've been slimming for weeks
You've got the teeth of the Hydra upon you

Should be,
You're slim and you're weak...

On that theme,

I predict a diet, I predict a diet!

“I think we better deep fry now” - I think we better leave right now Will Young 😂

Lizziethelab

Aveline

Four hundred children and a crop in the field,
You picked the wrong time to leave me Lucille!

Just love that!! I keep laughing about it.

No, it was four hundred children had a crap in the field

Also, 'then I saw her face. Now I'm gonna leave her' (I'm a believer)

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

Hippo Roo Jack - Hit the road Jack

Wash your back
Wash your back, real good

(Want You Back, Take That)