Misheard lyrics

On Monday, Language Log posted about this video:

Today, cymast and I had an exchange in the comments on one of her posts about something similar. 

So, here are three links. 

A very ambitious collection, where visitors vote to rank mishearings by comic value and submitters include stories to show that they did sincerely mishear the lyrics, that they are not making up parodies; another collection, almost equally ambitious in the number of mishearings recorded and keys by which they are indexed, but without the same means to filter out parodies; and an explanation of why misheard lyrics are known as “Mondegreens,” from snopes.

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  1. CMStewart's avatar

    cymast

     /  February 18, 2009

    Funny video!

    I always think of ” ‘scuse me, while I kiss this guy” when I think of misheard lyrics.

    Awhile back Mr. Cymast told me he thought “Black Cow” lyrics were “get your big black cow, and get outta here.” Too funny!

  2. acilius's avatar

    acilius

     /  February 19, 2009

    “Scuse me while I kiss this guy” is a classic example, because Hendrix acted it out on stage at least once.