My mondegreen moment

[may_child]

"Mondegreen" is the official term for a misheard song lyric, coined in the 1950s by a woman who had long misheard the lyrics of a folk ballad thusly:

"They killed the Earl of Murray
And Lady Mondegreen."

Turned out the lyrics were:

"They killed the Earl of Murray
And laid him on the green."

Anyway...for the longest time, my favorite part of the Prince

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[sue_parsons]

"'Scuze me while I kiss this guy!"

[may_child]

Yep, I have that book.

[lazypadawan]

Well, that's Prince for you ;).

Sometimes I prefer the mondegreens over the real thing too.

[ghanistarkiller]

Bwahahahaha, for the longest time, I thought Stevie Wonder was singing "fairly superstitious," which is now a great joke in my face. there was also an instance in the Billy Joel song "Pressure," when he says, "Where the only thing you feel are loaded guns in your face," and I swear, and I have not told anyone since the initial time I was corrected, that he had said, "Where the only thing you feeling are lonely c**ts in your face."

I'm good for Mondegreens because I mishear everything! xP Prince's "I Would Die For You"? Yes, I am among that small number who thought he was saying, "Apple-dapple-doo." I had a book, He's Got the Whole World in his Pants that actually made fun of the one woman who admitted to that one. And I was like, "Um..." xD

Ooh, another favorite: John Mellencamp's "Authority Song": "I fight with Dorothy, Dorothy always wins!" xD