The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #12991 Message #3086411
Posted By: Joe Offer
01-Feb-11 - 02:12 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Correction: Caledonia (Dougie MacLean)
Subject: RE: Correction: Caledonia by Dougie MacLean
Tattie, I don't doubt that "coat-tails" is a Mondegreen. If you will look above, you will see that in both of the "corrected" transcriptions I posted, I put
I have travelled hard, sometimes with conscience flying somewhere in the wind
I got one transcription from a Dougie MacLean CD booklet, and the other from Dougie's Website - and then I compared them with a recording (although on the recording, I think he sings "somewhere with the wind).