Mondegreens

[scotpens]

Okay, we all know what mondegreens are, right? Do you have any particular ones that are unique or at least unusual? Let's eliminate the ones everybody's heard of -- “There's a bathroom on the right,” “’Scuse me while I kiss this guy,” “I'm not talkin’ ’bout the linen,” and so on.

For example, Elvis Presley's “Return to Sender” I used to hear as “Return to Hilda.” And the song “Tonight” from West Side Story -- honestly, for years I thought the line “Today, the world was just an address” was “Today, the world was just a mattress.”

Got any good ones?

 

[thestrangequark]

"You're so lame, you probably think this song is about you. You're so laaaaaame!"

And of course, Beck's, "I'm a lizard-baby, so why don't you kill me," was very popular when I was in 6th grade.

 

[Jack Bauer]

I always hear Mick Jagger sing "I can suck a duck" whenever I hear Beast of Burden. I think the line is really "I can suck it up" but I'm not sure about that.

 

[Hoser]

I'm hot buttered, take it from me. I've got a fever of 103.

Take my hand, we'll make a nice sweater, oh-oh we're livin' on a prayer.

How do you catch a clown and pin him down? Oh, how do you solve a problem like Maria?

 

[TheKeeper]

First time I heard Steve Perry's "Oh Sherry" ("But you should have been gone"), I thought "Bullets in a big gun."

 

[flandry84]

Please don't consider me a Nil Diamond fan....brrr..
But every time I hear 'Forever in blue jeans' it becomes "The reverend blue jeans".Some cool preacher man,no doubt.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

Red, red wine
goes to my head
makes me forget that I'm
stealing her soul.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

"Baking Carrot Biscuits" (Taking Care of Business)
"Thirty Thieves and the Thunder Chief" (Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap)

and of course, the Go-Gos' smash hit, "Alex the Seal" (Our Lips Are Sealed)

 

[Vulcan Princess]

Sting - Fields of Gold: I thought the line "among the fields of barley" was "among the fields of holly" for the longest time. The song suddenly made a whole lot more sense when I realized it was barley. (Since holly isn't gold, and it would be really prickly and not at all romantic to lie in a field of holly anyway.)

 

[Rii]

"Dis pear ... so delicious."

 

[sojourner]

Scorpions From "There's no-one like you" - "Girl, it's been a long time that we've been apart, much to long for a man who eats out". LOL, should be "who needs love"

 

[Maestro]

Belzebub has a devil for the sight of me.

 

[sojourner]

^I can't even figure out what that is from.

 

[M'Sharak]

^I can't even figure out what that is from.

Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" - the line actually goes:

"Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me"
(for me, for meeeeeeeeee...)
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[Scott Delaney]

^I can't even figure out what that is from.

I'm guessing Bohemian Rhapsody...?

 

[scotpens]

From Steppenwolf's “Born to be Wild”:
The line “Fire all of your guns at once and explode into space,” I always used to think was “Buy all of the guns and watch them explode into space.”

And here's how I first heard Bob Dylan's “Tangled Up in Blue”:

Early one morning the sun was shinin’
I was layin’ in bed
Wonderin’ if she'd changed that oil,
If her hair was still red.

Women -- they just never know how to take care of a car!

 

[TheKeeper]

From Steppenwolf's “Born to be Wild”:
The line “Fire all of your guns at once and explode into space,” I always used to think was “Buy all of the guns and watch them explode into space.”
...

One of my nephews once thought the line "looking for adventure" was "looking for a badger."

 

[Maestro]

^I can't even figure out what that is from.

Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" - the line actually goes:

"Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me"
(for me, for meeeeeeeeee...)
​

Yep.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

"All we hear is...Radio ca-ca..."

 

[Smiley]

Should be: "I do cherish you"

I first heard it as: "I do share a shoe"