The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #32340   Message #567323
Posted By: Aidan Crossey
08-Oct-01 - 06:31 AM
Thread Name: any new mondegreens?
Subject: RE: any new mondegreens?
The Leaving of Nancy ... my sister used to mangle the line "the parting has come and my weary heart aches" ... "the parting has come and my *weary sore legs*".

A friend of mine who will remain nameless had a country-rock band who did a version of the Burrito Brothers' "Farther Along". There is a line about God looking down from his "home in the sky", which he sung as "hole in the sky". Which image I much preferred ...