Over a game of cards and drinks just now, I was explaining to my mother what a mondegreen is. I mean, she knew the concept but not the word. The gods get involved in in the conversations of the little people, sometimes, you know, as a laugh, as you would, and as if you might if you could cause such things to happen, The Bee Gees “More Than A Woman” started up. My sister and I have always heard the title lyrics as, “Four Letter Woman”
The woman sang along right to the chorus, and out of her comes, “Four Letter Mondegreen Teeeeaaaaa…!”
Funny, my favorite childhood mondegreen (discovered to be such when I was in my teens) was also from a Bee Gees song: “'Cause we’re living in a world of food, breaking us down…”
I appreciate the hat doffing. Mama was worried that I was making her look stupid to my friends. I had to convince her that nothing could be further from the truth! That little mondegreen perfection happened so naturally, it was sublime.
That’s one of the funniest I’ve ever heard. I only ever had a stupid mondegreen: While I was dancing to Prince’s Little Red Corvette, I was singing along… “Feel it come back…”
Feel it come back? :smack:
I like yours (OP) and your mama’s Mondegreens!
“Shine, make 'em wonder what you got
Make them wish that they were not
On the outside looking bald.”
My best friend in high school thought those were the lyrics, and when he found out he was wrong, would still shout it loudly over the real lyric of “bored.” It didn’t help that the singer used the same vowel for “bored” as we use for “bald.”
