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Thread #11381   Message #813619
Posted By: DMcG
29-Oct-02 - 11:23 AM
Thread Name: Misspoken, misheard, but accepted.
Subject: RE: Misspoken, misheard, but accepted.
I read of a mondegreen today, spotted by Cecil Sharp, no less, which I have not seen quoted elsewhere

"The singer learned the song from her mother, who always sang the first two lines as:

Do rain, Do rain, American corn
Do rain both greate and small

Clearly, 'American corn' is a corruption of 'in Merry Lincoln'"