I too have auralallia (the listening equivalent of speaking in tongues). For many years I sang the last verse of Gordon Lightfoot's "Long River" as:

When this land was made , it was made for the wanters.

It always bothered me as to what exactly is a "wanter" in this context, but a couple other singing companions concurred in this interpretation. Only more recently did I see a printed version of the lyrics to find out that this land was "made full of wonders"

I also learned Fred Hellerman's "Borning Day" from a scratchy library record by the Brothers Four and had no clue what kind of tree they were getting "down" (I.e. fluffy stuff, not vertical displacement) from. I resorted to mumbling the word knowingly as if I was perfectly sure what i was singing about. Fortunately nobody asked. A couple years ago I finally sent a request in to the Sing Out! Songfinder. Nobody replied, but after some months Holly Tannen found a printed version of the lyurics and sent them to me. With that in hand I went to the botany section of the university library and found out that the "moffle tree" is a real plant from the Carribean area and they actually get some kind of bedding product by scraping off the inner bark.

Good grief this is a long post for a couple of botched words.

rich r