I need Mondegreens from the 1970s

[bertha katzenengel]

I need material for a book I hope to write someday. Have been accumulating thoughts, characters, backgrounds, episodes, etc., for years.

Now I need some good 70s Mondegreens. Don't know what a Mondegreen is? Misheard lyrics, like:

** there's a bathroom on the right

** it's hard to find nice things on a four-sided cow

or the pledge:

** and to the Republic for Richard stands

and the like

Hit me!

I hope you all are well. :grouphug:

http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/m/m0383050.html
mondegreen definition

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.

mondegreen etymology

[Deep13]

1. 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy.

[LeftyMom]

11. There's a book by that name that's full of them

http://www.amazon.com/Scuse-While-Kiss-This-Guy/dp/0671501283/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-2129548-8242214?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190577329&sr=8-1

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear bertha!

Sorry, sweetie, no mondegreens from me...

Just wanted to say how good it is to see you posting again!

I hope things are better now at your house...

You have been missed, and big time!

:hug:

[bertha katzenengel]

6. Hey, Peggy dear

:hug:

[Midlodemocrat]

3. Big ol North Carolina.

[soleft]

4. I'm not talkin' bout my linens

And I don't want to change your life, but there's a full moon blah blah, and I'd really love to see you tonight.

[Gormy Cuss]

5. Link for you

Jon Carroll is a great columnist in the SF Chronicle and he loves writing about mondegreens. Check the left column headings.
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/


hi bertha!

[Sugar Smack]

7. Big ol' Jed had a lighter.

I MISSED YOU SO MUCH, Bertha!!:loveya: :pals: :hug: :yourock: :hi: :D

[bertha katzenengel]

12. hey, Shug

:hug:

[mzteris]

8. BERTHA!!!!

Where just have you been young lady???




Oh never mind, give me a :hug:

You DO know we've all been worried sick about you & we've missed you!

Don't EVER leave us hanging like that AGAIN!

:spank:


(Heck, I haven't even READ your post yet. Pardon me a moment . . . )


hmmm - the first one that comes to mind is that Manfred Mann song Blinded By The Light it has a lot, I think.


Now - catch us up on how you've been, what you've been doing, how you are, hows Mrs Venation? How're the kitties? oh just everything, you know.... :)

Can you tell I'm glad to see you? :hi:

[bertha katzenengel]

13. hey there mz

:hug: thank you :)

will maybe post a big catch-up later on. :hug:

[swag]

9. "Bakin' Carrot Biscuits" for "Takin' Care of Business"

"Reverend Bluejeans" for "Forever in Bluejeans."

And I'm not sure it's a mondegreen or if it's intentional, but from Blondie's "Rapture," some of us always heard what the published lyrics list as "finger-popping, 24-hour shopping rapture" as "finger-fucking 24-hour shopping rapture."

[Sugar Smack]

10. How bout some feedback, woman?

:P

[mcscajun]

14. Dirty deeds and the Thunder Chief.

:blush:

[Lost4words]

15. Dirty Deeds dundlecheek!

I wondered what the hell is a dundlecheek. Must have had a hearing problem!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. For me, The Immigrant Song (1970) was one mondegreen after another

"We come from the land of the ice and snow
from the midnight sun
where the hot winds blow"


"Always sleeping reaching out,
Our only doorway is to twist and shout...


"So now you'd better stop,
a wreaking all your ruin..."

I didn't learn what the REAL words were until I saw the Viking kitten version.

[RetroLounge]

17. Our Father Who Art in heaven...

Howard be thy name...

:hi:

Missed you...

RL