What is a mondegreen?
Correct answer: A mishearing
Timoteo
From Jimi Hendrix' Purple Haze... Excuse me while I kiss this guy... and CCR's There's a Bad Moon on the Right.
Miss Sue
They're kinda funny when you realize that what you think you heard is way better than what the song writer wrote in the first place.
Chris
John Prine tell the story of a woman in his audience who asks him to sing the song about the ‘happy enchilada.’ John said he didn’t have a song about a happy enchilada. The woman insisted that he did. They finally discovered that the woman’s happy enchilada was actually, “a half an inch of water.”
Larry
the ants are, my friends, blowing in the wind.
Gewane
My whole life, until recently, I always thought the Moody Blues song "Nights in White Satin" was "Knights in White Satin" which I still think is much better...
BlueEyedAlien
Timoteo, it’s “There’s a bathroom on the right.”
Beeba
"And Iran, Iran's so far away"
Stella
Timoteo, A bathroom on the right.
Rover277
Try listening to the British comedian Peter Kay who did a whole thing about misheard song words. Hilarious 😂
Wannabe Vulcan
Gewane, so did I, until just now!
Myffa
Larry, Who was no doubt alongside the very short, fat man, a certain child put in every Nativity painting she did, and when asked his identity, replied indignantly "He's Round John Virgin!"
Stephanie
Timoteo, there’s a bathroom on the right.
Pentatonic Patty
Just let me staple the vicar
toothless beachrat
Chris, he also has a song entitled "onomatopoeia"...
seanieG eire/kreta
Larry, Kate Bush Roland the bore
Beeba
"Lady, from the moment I saw you, standing, on your lawn" . Also
Larry
Gladly the cross-eyed bear
CoachBlank
TestyAlien3443, think you have your artists reversed...
TestyAlien3443
Manfred Mann 'Don't Bring Me Down'
"Groos" (made-up word) often heard/sung as "Bruce"
ELO 'Blinded By The Light'
"Wrecked up like a Deuce" often heard as "douche"