Misheard lyrics are we allowed a few more or is it old hat and boring?

Question

one of mine

from There is a green hill far away

We may not know , we cannot tell what Painty had to bear

Answer 1

In Petula Clark's 'Sailor' I thought she used to sing "On a Lulu Horse I Am"

It was really "Honolulu or Siam"

Answer 2

Yes. the classic is Desmond Decker's Israelites.

"Israelites"

Misheard Lyrics:

My ears are alight.

Original Lyrics:

Me Israelite

Made famous in an 80s TV ad. (see link)

Mondagreens: (word of the day) is the term for misheard lyrics.

The American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term mondegreen in an essay "The Death of Lady Mondegreen," which was published in Harper's Magazine in November 1954. In the essay, Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the final line of the first stanza from the 17th century ballad "The Bonnie Earl O' Murray." She wrote:

    When I was a child, my mother used to read aloud to me from Percy's Reliques, and one of my favorite poems began, as I remember:

        Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,

        Oh, where hae ye been?

        They hae slain the Earl Amurray, [sic]

        And Lady Mondegreen.

The actual fourth line is "And laid him on the green." As Wright explained the need for a new term, "The point about what I shall hereafter call mondegreens, since no one else has thought up a word for them, is that they are better than the original."

Answer 3

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=epZe1NXyhU...  you have me this time?but I enjoy this one too !

Answer 4

I always thought Men At Work were singing "He just smiled and gave me a Vegamite sand wedge..."

Answer 5

Many people think the Wales anthem,' Mae hen wlad fyn nhadau yn annwyl i mi' says -  'My friend had an adder and gave one to me'.Ignorant bastar*s!

Answer 6

I could never understand why Ultravox's Vienna was CALLED Vienna. I thought the lyrics were 'ah . . . .me and her'!!!!!

Answer 7

Do you remember a song "I can't give you anything but my love" performed by The Stylistics? The lyrics began as follows:

"If I had money I'd go out

Buy you furs, dress you like a queen"

which I always misheard as "kiss your leg good queen".

Answer 8

boring as all ****

Answer 9

If your names not John you`re not coming in.     instead of down