Favourite mondegreen

[enigmabear]

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 ?

[not_for_sale2025]

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@zanadoo_56wrote:

Just remembered a story related by a disc jockey many years ago.  Apparently the radio station had a competition, where they would play the 'winning song' and whoever called in first and got the details correct would get prize.

On this occasion the winning song was '24 Hours from Tulsa' by Gene Pitney.

Unfortunately the lady who phoned in didn't win. 

Mind you, she was close (but no cigar) with: '24 Hours from Telstra'.

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[wide-world-of-stamps]

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@zanadoo_56wrote:

Just remembered a story related by a disc jockey many years ago.  Apparently the radio station had a competition, where they would play the 'winning song' and whoever called in first and got the details correct would get prize.

On this occasion the winning song was '24 Hours from Tulsa' by Gene Pitney.

Unfortunately the lady who phoned in didn't win. 

Mind you, she was close (but no cigar) with: '24 Hours from Telstra'.

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24 hours?  Quicker than their usual customer service!!!!!!!

[enigmabear]

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@zanadoo_56

24 hours?  Quicker than their usual customer service!!!!!!!

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Maybe she had been on hold for 24 hours ?  

[bright.ton42]

Someone left my cake out in the rain

I thought was

Someone left my cakehole in the rain

(Macarthur Park .......I don't know if anyone knows what it means anyway)

[enigmabear]

Take your pants down and make it happen

(Flashdance) 

[the_great_she_elephant]

Mondegreens can have very unforeseen consequences. Some years ago I was doing a workshop at a local highschool when there was a bomb scare - someone had phoned the office and reported seeing two boys hiding under one of the demountable classrooms with a what appeared to be a bomb. We were all evacuted onto the school oval for the best part of two hours while police searched the entire school. Happily nothing was found. 

After the incident made headines in the local TV news that evening, the woman who had made the report to the school rang the station and said what she actually told the office clerk was that she had seen two boys hiding under the demountable with what looked like a BONG.

[enigmabear]

Alex the seal

(Our lips are sealed) 

[zanadoo_56]

Not understanding what you are singing because it is in a foreign language can also lead to embarrassment.

When the original version of the song Lady Marmalade by Labelle came out a co-worker apparently couldn't get it out of his head.  He sang the song at work a lot.....and got some very startled looks.

I asked him if he knew what he was singing.  Nope.  He'd never learned French at all.  So I translated probably the most well known line in the song - Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir? (Do you want to sleep with me tonight?) - stressing I wasn't trying to come on to him!

He looked appalled and never sang the song at work again.  I wasn't game to ask him what he thought he was singing.

[not_for_sale2025]

I'm Down - The Beatles

Correct lyrics - How can you laugh when you know I'm down

I thought twas - I give you love when you know I'm down

I should have realised I was wrong because I doubt they

would have allowed such lyrics in the 60s.

[twyngwyn]

Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Zephyr Song

actual lyrics: fly away on my Zephyr

what I hear: fly away on my cellphone