Lay them on the green.

[hannah]

Gang.

Folks.

My dudes.

Fellow participants of this given social network.

I'll get to it: I need Mondegreens. When I started the fic I'm currently working on, I decided it should take its chapter titles from misheard lyrics. I figured it'd add to the atmosphere and create a slanted commentary on the subject matter, and I'd finally get to do something I'd wanted to try out for a while in something approaching a reasonable context.

Today I realized I needed some help in the matter. That, and it'd be better asking around for specific examples than scrolling through compilations of the more common ones. I'm not looking for "hold me closer, Tony Danza" - I'm looking for "it's all part of the palimpsest." (Trouble, by Voxtrot, and yes, that's going in there.)

If anyone's got something, I'd love to hear it.

Comments

[pwcorgigirl]

My very personal fave is hearing the Jayhawks song Omaha Nights as "am I growing old in the arms of Leon Russell?" instead of "in the arms of the wrong lover?"

[hannah]

I don't know that song or that artist, and I'll go give them a listen. You got any more?

[pwcorgigirl]

When my husband was a little boy, he used to sing "lead on, oh kinky turtle" instead of "lead on, O King Eternal" in church, because that is how he heard it.

[hannah]

The "children mishear phonemes in common prayers" is an untapped comedy vein, seriously.