What are your favorite Mondegreens?

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OK, first of all…

:confused:

Secondly, here are a few. I love these threads when they pop up.

  1. From Hall and Oates’s “Rich Girl”: “You can rely on the old bad bunny” (rather than “…on the old man’s money”)
  2. Also from AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds…”: “Dirty jeans…Dun-ga-rees!”
    Much funnier if chanted loudly when the song comes on.
  3. From “Steal Away” (not sure who it’s by): “Why don’t we silouhette…into the night.”
  4. From Blind Melon’s “No Rain”: “You know I like to keep my cheese dried and aged” (rather than “…cheeks dry today” – I think.)

I have so many more that I can’t think of right now… Back later.

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Oh, I just got the “All in the Family” one. It took a while for me to make the connection!

I thought (when very very young) that “Boy, our old Lasalle ran great” was, inexplicably, “G-O-L-O Sal ress pray.”

Those were the days.

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[nitpick] That’s “'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.” [/nitpick] Hendrix was aware of this one, and he sometimes would sing “kiss this guy” onstage–punctuating it by aiming a smooch at bassist Noel Redding’s cheek.

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Bee Gees again:
Four-letter Woman,
Four-letter woman to me

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Dave Barry wrote a column on this; I haven’t read it in years, but I still laugh at the bit where he claims to have thought the first line of the Beach Boys’ Help Me Rhonda was:

“Well, since she put me down, I got owls puking in my bed.”