On the sixth day of English
My true love sang to me
Some funny tunes that turned
To mondegreens.
It’s been some time since we’ve talked about mondegreens, also known as misheard song lyrics. Today I visited a website named after a mondegreen for some Jimi Hendrix lyrics. The words in the actual song are “Excuse me, while I kiss the sky.” The mondegreen is “Excuse me, while I kiss this guy.”
Here are six mondegreens from Kiss This Guy:
| Song Title | Artist/Group | Actual Lyrics | Mondegreen |
| You Can’t Quit Me Baby | Queens of the Stone Age | You’re solid gold
I’ll see you in hell |
You smell like goat I’ll see you in hell |
| Jeremy | Pearl Jam | At home, drawing pictures
Of mountaintops With him on top |
At home, drawing pictures
Of mounds of tots With ham on top |
| I’m Every Woman | Chaka Khan | I’m every woman | I’m Terry Wogan |
| Dancing Queen | Abba | See that girl, watch that scene, diggin’ the dancing queen | See that girl, watch her scream, kicking the dancing queen |
| Take My Breath Away | Berlin | Haunted by the notion somewhere there’s a love in flames | In all that body lotion, somewhere there’s a loving flame |
| Like a Virgin | Madonna | Like a virgin
Touched for the very first time |
Like a virgin
Touched for the thirty-first time |
And for those of you who prefer rap:
Kara Church
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