Favourite mondegreen

Not sure if there is a mondegreen thread on here already (I searched and did'nt find)

 

Anyone got a favourite/funny/silly/better than the real words mondegreen ?

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I really like The Beatles song You Know My Name. It is goofy, but a rare example of them just letting their hair down and fooling around, especially John.

 

It commences with:

 

Good evening and welcome to Slaggers
Featuring Denis O'Bell

 

I thought it commenced with:

 

Good evening and welcome to Slaggers

We drink Daddy's Ol'bell (which I thought was an alcohol drink)

 

I have been singing the wrong lyrics for decades and only found out about the correct lyrics recently. My problem is I like my lyrics better, and still sing them LOL. Not that I would dare profess to be a better lyricist than Mr Lennon.

 

 

 

 

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ANYTHING by Australian Crawl is always a challenge....too many to list

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Like a virgin, touched for the thirty first time...

 

Which is perhaps not what Madonna had in mind - Like a virgin, touched for the very first time...

 

🙂

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April Sun in Cuba - Dragon

 

snake eyes on the paradise (according to Google)

 

I always thought it was: snake eyes on a pair of dice

 

thoughts??

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I thought it was dice .....................................

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I thought dice, and I think google is wrong.

 

The sheet music says dice

 

 

 

Image result for april sun in cuba sheet music
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thankyou!!!!

 

Google didn't make sense....surprise...lol

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From the old Fireball XL5 TV theme song these are lines from the first verse:

 

I wish I was a spaceman

The fastest guy alive

I'd fly you round the universe In Fireball XL5

Way out in space together

Conquerors of the sky.....etc

 

However .....

I have a downloaded version made by a fan.  The music arrangement is great, the singing is great but from memory I think the singer was American, which is possibly why he interpreted the last line above as:

 

Condors of the sky.

 

I still like to listen to it but when I get to that line it makes me smile.

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The girl with colitis goes by

The girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
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@myoclon1cjerkwrote:
The girl with colitis goes by

The girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

LOL

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