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Thread #32340   Message #567704
Posted By: GUEST,Arne Langsetmo
08-Oct-01 - 06:00 PM
Thread Name: any new mondegreens?
Subject: RE: any new mondegreens?
I sent this one off to Dick Gaughan, whose version occasioned this one:

Bonnie Jeannie o' Bethelnie:

Nou Jeannie's gotten mairriet an her tocher's doun tauld

Bonnie Jeannie o Bethelnie wis scarce saxteen year auld

O Bethelnie, o Bethelnie, ye shine whaur ye staun

An the heather bells aroun ye shine owre Fyvie's laun

I kept hearing this as:

Bonnie Jeannie o Bethelnie wis scarce saxteen year auld

Oh, the felony, oh, the felony. . .

But then again, they probably had a different age of consent. . .

Cheers,

-- Arne Langsetmo