A mondegreen is a word or phrase that results from mishearing or misinterpreting a statement or song lyric. Mondegreens are also known as oronyms. The term was coined in 1954 by American writer Sylvia Wright (and popularized by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll), inspired by a famous misinterpretation in the Scottish ballad "The Bonny Earl o' Moray" in which the line "And laid him on the green" was misheard and often repeated as, "And Lady Mondegreen."

"Excuse me while I kiss this guy."
– Jimi Hendrix

"The ants are my friends. It's blowing in the wind."
– Bob Dylan

What's your favorite musical mondegreen, especially a wrong lyric you thought for a long time was correct?