At six years old my friend Ronnie sang along with Buddy Holly’s “Peggy Sue”: “With a love oh where in to oh Peggy, my Peggy Sue.” I corrected him but he’d have no part of it.
Ellen Degeneres used to have a routine in her standup act about misheard lyrics. She was riding with a friend when Billy Joel’s “Keeping the Faith” came on the radio, and her friend sang, “And I was kicked in the face!”
DaJellyBelly about 4 years ago
Wouldn’t those droplets be called dew?
Templo S.U.D. about 4 years ago
another musical mondegreen, but from Reginald Kenneth Dwight: “hold me closer, Tony Danza”
eromlig about 4 years ago
“They have slay’d the Duke of York and Lady Mondegreen.”
jasonsnakelover about 4 years ago
One time I created a salami that weighed 614 pounds and was 326.5 feet long.
Better the fog than landing on people and biting them.
Take care and may God bless.
sevaar777 about 4 years ago
“Mondegreen”, so THAT’S what I was hearing from Cheeto head all this time instead of lies and b. s.. Who knew? /s
therese_callahan2002 about 4 years ago
There’s a whole book devoted to misheard lyrics.
jpayne4040 about 4 years ago
Tandil picked the wrong deli meat! They should have tried ham or bologna! Salami is the only deli meat I will leave off of my Super Sandwiches.
tkcoker about 4 years ago
That salami story is a bunch of baloney.
h.v.greenman about 4 years ago
Did the town of Tandil also create a loaf of the bread and a pot of mustard large enough to make a 326.4 foot long salami sandwich?
A# 466 about 4 years ago
“’Scuse me while I kiss this bathroom on the right.”
danholt about 4 years ago
Despite this being an oft cited example, did anyone really think this was what Jimi was actually singing?
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 4 years ago
One of my favorite lyricists, John Prine, who just passed away on Tuesday due to complications from Covid-19…
also sometimes sang a Mondegreen that a fan heard in one of his songs… or sometimes used it as the song title in a playlist.
He liked to tell the story in concert, and you can find it on YouTube….
A woman approached the stage and asked him to sing his song about “The Happy Enchilada”…
He humorously says he’s never written about food, so he told her maybe she had him mixed up with Jimmy Buffett…
but she insisted it was him.
So he asked her to tell him some more of the lyrics…
She said, “It’s a happy enchilada and you think you’re gonna drown.”
Actual lyric:
“That’s the way, the world goes ’round….
Sometimes you’re up, sometimes you’re down…
It’s a half an inch of water and you think you’re gonna drown…"
R.I.P John Prine
joeatwork212 about 4 years ago
There is a bathroom on the right….. “Bad Moon Rising”
aimlesscruzr about 4 years ago
One of my favorite misheard lyric vids is Pearl Jam’s Yellow Ledbetter:
https://youtu.be/xLd22ha_-VU
Huckleberry Hiroshima about 4 years ago
At six years old my friend Ronnie sang along with Buddy Holly’s “Peggy Sue”: “With a love oh where in to oh Peggy, my Peggy Sue.” I corrected him but he’d have no part of it.
J Short about 4 years ago
One of my favorites, misunderstood Joe Cocker lyrics:
https://youtu.be/pcLnuEpQ1yg
russef about 4 years ago
Pray tell, what did they do with said salami?
Oxnate about 4 years ago
My favorite Mondegreen: Alanis Morissette’s, “You Oughta Know”. “…or the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me.”
comixbomix about 4 years ago
Wait – what’s “mondescreen”???
Banjo Gordy Premium Member about 4 years ago
Did anyone notice the guitar player illustration is picking left handed? No too many left handed guitar & banjo players.
stamps about 4 years ago
That’s a lot of baloney.
Dean about 4 years ago
For a natural casing how did they find an animal whose intestines were that long?
Phil721 about 4 years ago
Judy disguise/lucy in the sky
DaveQuinn about 4 years ago
How often is there fog in a desert? It is a desert because of a lack of moisture.
zippykatz about 4 years ago
Here’s one: “oh a tree in motion…”
zippykatz about 4 years ago
“Big boys don’t cry, big boys don’t cry” sounds like “requesting quiet, requesting quiet…”
fuzzbucket Premium Member about 4 years ago
How long did it take to smoke that meat?
Say What Now‽ Premium Member about 4 years ago
Apologies for the terrible video quality but this is quite funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9_3nQFNy-w
Pedmar Premium Member about 4 years ago
Ellen Degeneres used to have a routine in her standup act about misheard lyrics. She was riding with a friend when Billy Joel’s “Keeping the Faith” came on the radio, and her friend sang, “And I was kicked in the face!”
craigwestlake about 4 years ago
“Mondesreen” huh? So that’s what happens when a politician talks…