Word of the Week: Mondegreen
“An epidemic of Dominicans contaminating everything.” (Through the Glass by Stone Sour)
“I am imagining a dark lit place with your place or my face.” (Paralyzer by Finger11)
“Mirror yourself if you can even try. Gaze deep into God’s peepee eye” (October Thorns by Flotsam & Jetsam)
“We built this city on the wrong damn road” (We Built This City by Starship)
What do these lyrics have in common? They all prove that I’m stupid and usually high. Also, they’re mondegreens.
We’ve all misunderstood a spoken poem, a speech, or a song lyric. From the girl with colitis goes by, to ’scuse me while I kiss this guy, we eventually find out we’ve been singing it wrong all along, causing us to feel wrapped up like a douche, another rumor in the night.
mon·de·green (mŏn’də-grēn’, môn’-) n.
A series of words that result from the mishearing or misinterpretation of a statement or song lyric. For example, I led the pigeons to the flag for I pledge allegiance to the flag.
[Origin: 1954; coined by Sylvia Wright, U.S. writer, from the line laid him on the green, interpreted as Lady Mondegreen, in a Scottish ballad] (dictionary.com)
If it exists, there’s a youtube of it:
Further reading:
Wikipedia - Archive of Misheard Lyrics - Christmas Mondegreens
Misheard Lyrics Hall of Fame - Mondegreens Ripped my Flesh - Mondegreen Central
Opening artwork altered from the book Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy
Previous !Word!s:
what kind of assfuck moron would confuse “I pledge allegiance to the flag” with “I led the pigeons to the flag”?
Looks like kids were just as stupid back then as they are today.
SEOHack
October 1, 2007 at 11:51 am
I remember reciting the pledge before I knew what most of the words meant. I’m sure I got it mostly wrong.
Having a bad day, SEO?
bagel of everything
October 1, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Get ‘chor get ‘chor ya ya, da da
Get ‘chor get ‘chor ya ya here
Mocha chocolata ya ya
Creole Lady Mondegrene!
Soylent Ape
October 1, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Sherry don’t like it: rocks in the cashbar.
bagel of everything
October 2, 2007 at 2:28 pm
wait…backup a sec…its not ” I led the pigeons to the flag?”
criminyjicket
October 2, 2007 at 5:56 pm
No, CJ, you are obviously retarded.
It’s “I fed the pidgins with the fag.”
It’s about how we, the United States, are a melting pot.
“Give us your hungry, your unwilling-to-learn-proper-English, your homosexuals… e-parable yumyum… and God, and the bible.”
bagel of everything
October 4, 2007 at 11:06 am
…never gonna let me live that “peepee eye” lyric down, are ya? While you’re at it, don’t forget about the “satisfy my doggie needs” line, either.
Soylent Ape
October 4, 2007 at 11:45 pm
Never, Soy. Never.
The Bagel of Everything
October 31, 2007 at 2:48 pm
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