Speaking of sources - sometime back I was looking for the words of one of the greatest hits of our biggest country star. I also knew who wrote it, yet the first lyrics site I found said the singer did!

There was a wonderful mondegreen in it, & having nothing better to do, I checked the other sites & found the same mondegreen in every set of lyrics with all credited to the singer, on 20+ other sites.

So of course, as "Google" said the singer wrote the song, it must be true ...

An Australian expression was translated as an American word because the first person to post the lyrics obviously didn't believe it. Ron Fairborn's lyrics for Slim Dusty's hit G'Day, G'day - "cork hats" becomes "polecats"
Cork hats are hats with corks hanging off the brim to discourage flies. Alleged to have been worn in fly-infested areas back in the olden days, & now only seen in souvenir shops & on tourist heads.