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		More mondegreens
		
		
		08-01-2008, 03:36 PM 
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		Spotted on The Register: Misheard Lyrics Blamed on Technology 
(The article links to kissthisguy.com , a site named after something which apparently mignt not be a mondegreen after all ...)
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		On a live recording of a concert in Dallas that was played on a Dallas radio station for a while (I believe it was owned by the station manager, because I 
haven't heard it since he disappeared from the local scene), Jimi sings, "'Scuse me while I kiss ... this policeman over here!" I think that 
if it is a mondegreen, it's one that Hendrix was aware of and played to. 
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		RE: More mondegreens
		
		
		11-06-2023, 07:02 PM 
	 
		* robkelk gets out shopvac to deal with the dust on this threqad
One that I misheard today. The song: "Take Me Home, Country Roads"
 
The actual lyric:
 Quote:Younger than the mountains, growing like a breeze 
What I heard:
 Quote:Younger than the mountains, growing lima beans 
		
	 
	
	
	
		
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		RE: More mondegreens
		
		
		11-06-2023, 10:09 PM 
	 
		I don't seem to have mentioned it here, but for the months between hearing Alanis Morissette's "Thank U" and getting a copy of Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, I thought a certain couplet went"How 'bout them transparent dangling carats?
 How 'bout that ever-elusive Godot?"
 
 And, for literally years, I thought that in the Van Halen song "Panama", Diamond Dave was expressing the intent to
 "...reach down into my larynx and
 Ease the seat back..."
 
		
	 
	
	
	
		
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		11-06-2023, 10:15 PM 
	 
		Earlier today I was listening to a uSpud hwile reading something alse, and thought for sure he referenced a song, "Electric Bee." No, it was the Beatles' Let It Be.
 I'm a bit tempted to filk that, but only a bit.
 
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		RE: More mondegreens
		
		
		11-07-2023, 08:04 AM 
	 
		 (11-06-2023, 10:09 PM)Mamorien Wrote:  And, for literally years, I thought that in the Van Halen song "Panama", Diamond Dave was expressing the intent to "...reach down into my larynx and
 Ease the seat back..."
 
Which reminds me of one that I heard about rather than misinterpreted.  From Train's "Drops of Jupiter", a repeated passage does  sound a little like
 Quote:Did you make it to the Milky WayTo see the lights are faded
 And Van Halen is overrated
 
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		RE: More mondegreens
		
		
		11-08-2023, 06:45 AM 
	 
		This reminds me of a favorite of mine...In Elton John's 'Bennie and the Jets', I could swear that rather than singing about 'electric moves', he's saying 'electric boobs'...
 
		
	 
	
	
	
		
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		11-08-2023, 08:06 AM 
	 
		... Actually it's neither of those -- it's "electric boots", to go with the mohair suit.
	 
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		RE: More mondegreens
		
		
		11-08-2023, 08:18 AM 
	 
		 (11-08-2023, 08:06 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote:  ... Actually it's neither of those -- it's "electric boots", to go with the mohair suit. 
What molehill suit?    
		
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