Good morning! Thank you to everyone who sent in their mondegreens (misheard song lyrics) to the Editor’s Corner for the latest contest. I received over 100, though several of them were repeats and a few of them were not for polite company. (They made me laugh, but I like my job so I won’t be passing them on!) Over the next few weeks I will share your co-workers’, friends’, clients’, and families’ submissions with you.
The winner of the book, Hit Me with Your Pet Shark: Misheard Lyrics of the 1980s, by Charles Grosvenor Jr. is Morris Hardin. Congratulations to a great guy! I’ll bring your book down some time this morning.
Happy Friday!
| Song Title | Artist/Group | Actual Lyrics | Mondegreen |
| Wandering Eyes | Ronnie McDowell | I got wanderin’ eyes,
It’s true, I love the ladies |
I got one weary eye,
It’s true, I love the ladies |
| Pour Some Sugar on Me | Def Leppard | Pour some sugar on me In the name of love |
Your son cheated on me
In the name of love |
| Pour Some Sugar on Me | Def Leppard | Pour some sugar on me Come on fire me up |
Pour some sugar on me
Come on fry me up |
| Bodies | Drowning Pool | Let the bodies hit the floor | Let the bicycle go |
| You Are Not Alone | Michael Jackson | I can hear your prayers Your burdens I will bear |
I can hear your prayers Your burgers are the best |
| Blank Space | Taylor Swift | Got a long list of ex-lovers, They’ll tell you I’m insane |
All the lonely Starbucks lovers,
They’ll tell you I’m insane |
| Edge of Seventeen | Stevie Nicks | Just like a white-winged dove | Just like a one-winged dove |
| Heard It in a Love Song | The Marshall Tucker Band | Heard it in a love song | Pretty little love song
and Purtier than a love song |
| White Flag | Dido | I will go down with this ship | I will go down with the fishes |
| How Do I Live? | LeAnn Rimes | How do I live without you? How do I breathe without you? |
How do I leave without you?
How do I grieve without you? |
| Living on a Prayer | Bon Jovi | Living on a prayer | Living on a prairie |
| Dead or Alive | Bon Jovi | On a steel horse I ride | On a stale horse I ride |
Kara Church
Technical Editor, Advisory
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