I’m starting the weekend a day early with Thursday mondegreens. Before I do, however, I want to tell you a secret. I am sharing the next couple of weeks in Editor’s Corner with three of my favorite women: Donna Bradley Burcher, Jackie Solano, and Laura Bowers. It’s a little crowded in the corner, so it’s a good thing we get along.
Please welcome my co-editors as they continue to pass along grammar tidbits, vocabulary vittles, and language lumps to you for your reading and learning pleasure.
Today’s mondegreens are from The Ants Are My Friends, by Martin Toseland.
| Song Title | Artist/Group | Mondegreen | Actual Lyrics |
| Champagne Supernova | Oasis | Someday you will find me Carpeting the landslide |
Someday you will find me Caught beneath the landslide |
| Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds | The Beatles | The girl with colitis goes by | The girl with kaleidoscope eyes |
| All My Loving | The Beatles | All my luggage, I will send to you | All my lovin’, I will send to you |
| Another Brick in the Wall Part II | Pink Floyd | No Dukes of Hazzard in the classroom | No dark sarcasm in the classroom |
| We Will Rock You | Queen | You’ve got mud on your face Front disc brakes |
You’ve got mud on your face A big disgrace |
| I’m a Believer | The Monkees | Then I saw her face Now I’m gonna leave her |
Then I saw her face Now I’m a believer |
| Oh What a Night | Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons | I’ve got the runs like a rolling bolt of thunder | I felt a rush like a rolling bolt of thunder |
| Ghostbusters | Ray Parker Jr | Who you gonna call? Gus Foster! |
Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters! |
| Higher Love | Steve Winwood | Bring me an iron lung | Bring me a higher love |
| Losing My Religion | REM | Life is bigger Bigger than you And you are knock-kneed |
Life is bigger Bigger than you And you are not me |
| You Don’t Bring Me Flowers | Neil Diamond | You hardly talk to me anymore, when I kung fu the door at the end of the day | You hardly talk to me anymore, when I come through the door at the end of the day |
Next time we meet, I hope to have a lot of interesting information to share and tales to tell!
Kara Church
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