The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #32340 Message #1914468
Posted By: Genie
20-Dec-06 - 04:14 AM
Thread Name: any new mondegreens?
Subject: RE: any new mondegreens?
This one isn't much of a stretch, but when I first heard the song "This Endris Night," this is the way I 'heard' one verse:
The child then spake in his talking, And to his mother did say, "Yea, I am known as Heaven's king Though I in cribbie lay."
I thought that seemed quaintly cutesyish -- to call a manger a "cribbie."
Then checking the DT here, I realize that what was acutally being sung was:
The child then spake in his talking, And to his mother did say, "Yea, I am known as Heaven's kind Though I in crib be laid."