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Thread #32340   Message #4187132
Posted By: GUEST,henryp
27-Sep-23 - 11:52 PM
Thread Name: any new mondegreens?
Subject: RE: any new mondegreens?
The Oxford to Hampton Railway

In Alcester lives a bonny lass / I think they call her Nancy,
Says she, a trip upon the line / Greatly would really please my fancy.
I will ride by steam and work by steam, / By steam I’ll on be hurried,
And when I can a husband find / By steam I will be married

It has become the opposite;
She'll go by steam, she'll come by steam, / By steam she'll unbehurried,
And if she do a husband find / By steam they will be married
and then;
She'll go by steam, she'll come by steam, by steam she'll be unhurried,
And if she do a husband find, by steam she will be married