mondegreen ?

Subject: RE: mondegreen ?
From: GUEST,Snuffy
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 10:45 AM

Is that the Canadian version, Ray?

Subject: RE: mondegreen ?
From: Declan
Date: 24 Mar 07 - 08:41 AM

I heard someone last year singing "Fair thee well sweet amber Liffey" in Dublin in the rare aul' times. While the Liffey can sometimes be quite colourful, the correct line is "Fair thee well sweet Anna Liffey".

There have been a couple of great monedgreens in current threads. The Ride on thread was originally started by someone looking for an Irish song about a horse called "Sea Dew" - Ride on Sea Dew, I could never go with you no matter how I wanted to.

In the "When I was a cowboy" thread Leadbellies "Oh de hardes' battle" became Odi, Hart and Spanner - the names of three cowboy heroes.

Subject: RE: mondegreen ?
From: SouthernCelt
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 08:35 AM

>>From Guest, Bob Coltman: "...rockets, bombs and all those other bits of ordnance we Americans can't wean ourselves off."
I believe you'll find that this ordnance was being fired by the British against American fortifications in America. Besides, what's wrong with spending a little quality time with a something like a World War II .30 cal air-cooled machine gun to thank it for its service?
SC

Subject: RE: mondegreen ?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Jul 08 - 12:26 PM

I see in today's Chicago Tribune that the word "mondegreen" has been accepted into the latest edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Truly, this is a significant step forward for the world of folk music, to have such an important concept accepted into the dictionary.

By the way, Wikipedia has quite an article on Mondegreens. Merriam-Webster even has a Website for collecting Mondegreens. They'll reveal their favorites July 25.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: mondegreen ?
From: GUEST,lefthanded guitar
Date: 07 Jul 08 - 01:38 PM

Appropriate for this past weekend is:

My country is a tree. Sweet land of liberty...

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And my own personal one,
that probably only folks from Lawn Guyland will get is:

We danced all night at
Roosevelt Field

Subject: RE: mondegreen ?
From: Tootler
Date: 07 Jul 08 - 05:16 PM

When I was in the scouts we used to sing (To the tune of Frere Jacques)

Life is butter,
Life is butter,
Melon cauliflower,
Melon cauliflower
Life is butter melon,
Life is butter melon,
Cauliflower,
Cauliflower.

And a personal one

"Fiddler's green is a place I've heard tell
Where fishermen go if they don't go to Hull."

Geoff

Subject: RE: mondegreen ?
From: Lord Batman's Kitchener
Date: 07 Jul 08 - 05:19 PM

José can you see by the dawn's early light

Subject: RE: mondegreen ?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 07 Jul 08 - 09:44 PM

Lead On, Thou Kinky Turtle (King Eternal). And don't forget the fat guy...Round John Virgin

Subject: RE: mondegreen ?
From: Joe_F
Date: 07 Jul 08 - 09:44 PM

I gather that children in various northeastern cities have innocently prayed

Lead us not into Penn Station

but some naughty ones have improved that to

Lead a snot into Penn Station.

Subject: RE: mondegreen ?
From: iancarterb
Date: 08 Jul 08 - 01:04 AM

So does "Gladly, the Cross-eyed Bear" qualify as a mondegreen? It is, after all, the identical sound to the line in the hymn...

Subject: RE: mondegreen ?
From: evansakes
Date: 08 Jul 08 - 04:23 AM

Someone was asking above about the 80's Maxell advert featuring Desmond Dekker's 'Me Israelite'.

Mondegreens a-plenty (and VERY funny)

"Me ears are alight"

There was another similar one featuring the Skids' 'Into The Valley'...not so successful because the original lyrics made even less sense than the Mondegreen version