What's your favourite mondegreen?

[SimonK]

A mondegreen, in case you didn't know, is a misheard lyric (the origin of the word is too boring to relate).

One of the most famous is from Purple Haze; Hendrix sings 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky', but people thought, and continue to think, he was singing 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy'.

In Stevie Wonder's Sir Duke the chorus is 'You can feel it all over' which sounds a lot like 'Dick and Phyllis are lovers' on the record.

And for Nationwide fans (remember Frank Boff?) the chorus of The Police's 'So Lonely' sounds an awful lot like Sting is singing 'Sue Lawley'.

Gene Cotton had a minor seventies hit with 'Me and the elephants'; the opening line goes 'I remember the day we had nothing to do, so we went down to the city zoo, just to kill an hour or two....', but it sounds like he is singing '....just to kill an owl or two'.

And, I kid you not, I was once standing looking at a pub juke box, when the fella next to me said 'where's that Wings' song - you know, Mother Can't Iron'. For those not aware of Macca's 1977 masterpiece, it was entitled 'Mull of Kintyre'.

So, what's your favourite mondegreen?

[alfat33]

I’m sure that Don’t Go by Yazoo opens with ‘Came in from the city, walked into a door’

And Rihanna is definitely singing Hot Pie, we never sing anything else.

[magirus]

Bowie, Ziggy Stardust . . . "Making love with his eagle".

[Filterlab]

Tina Turner...

What's a glove got to do with it?

[rodia77]

Too shy-shy... Hush-hush, why do I?

[lewie]

Living on the Kent coast as a teenage new romantic we were sure visage were ‘stepping out from a backstuck Folkestone’ in fade to grey
https://youtu.be/UMPC8QJF6sI

And of course Roberta flack and Peabo Briceon
Tonight I sellotape my glove to you
https://youtu.be/2GOLnWz_Osc