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

[deifire]

Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, "Blinded by the Light"
Actual lyric: "Revved up like a deuce"
Misheard lyric: "Wrapped up like a douche"
(That one's probably a classic, but one that got me.)

"Silent Night"
Actual lyric: "Round yon virgin mother and child"
Misheard lyric (by young me, for years): "Round, young version of mother and child"

I've been mishearing R.E.M. lyrics most of my life, but here are a couple:

"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight"
Actual lyric: "Call me when you try to wake her up"
Misheard lyric: "Don't even try to wake her up"

"Losing My Religion"
Actual lyric: "What if all these fantasies/Come flailing around"
As misheard by me: "What if all these fantasies/Come flaming to the ground"
As misheard by a friend of mine: "What if all these Spanish seas/Come flailing around"

[hannah]

Those are some dead-on REM lyrics - I love it when a misheard lyric recasts a song in a way that makes just as much sense as the original.