Lovecraftian Mondegreen
Just heard a clip of Tom Paxton's rendition of "I Remember Loving You" (which is more or less by Utah Phillips), and was a bit startled at the lyrics: And...
Archive for Mondegreens/Mishearings
Acronyms in a song
A few weeks back, I heard a country song on the radio in which the singer sang: I smell T.R.O, you B.L.E. I puzzled for a while over what T.R.O....
Marmoset there’d be days like this
I don't seem to have ever linked to the brilliant O Fortuna misheard lyrics video, which plays "O Fortuna" while showing what the lyrics might be. Plus visual interpretations of...
News Mondegreen
Was half-listening to NPR news this morning, and thought I heard a reporter say that something was intended to "shore up the Gaza sea-spire." I thought to myself, "Neat--I don't...
MM: The Ants Are My Friends (Reader Comments and Addenda)
Joe Robins provides a pointer to another archive of misheard lyrics that I hadn't previously known about. It includes entertaining stories about how the submitters found out they were wrong. I forgot to mention some other items I misheard for years: Where the wild mountain Ty rose around the blue wind Heather... Really: Where the […]
MM: The Ants Are My Friends
Most of the time when I mishear a song lyric, I don't hear anything intelligible, just nonsense syllables. Even when I do hear a real but incorrect word, it's often a minor, uninteresting change. Fortunately, other people are better than I at mishearing entertainingly, which has spawned a small industry of lists of misheard lyrics. […]