Musical Malapropisms..
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Musical Malapropisms..
I'm sort of hijacking the Malapropism thread (which I love) because musical malapropisms have their own unique name: Mondegreens. There are tons of websites out there devoted to mondegreens with hilarious examples (eg Jimi Hendrix's "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy"). For starters:
http://www.uh.edu/~mbarber/mondegreens.html
As a kid, when I heard the carol "We Three Kings", I always wondered where Orientaar was...
Go to it!!
http://www.uh.edu/~mbarber/mondegreens.html
As a kid, when I heard the carol "We Three Kings", I always wondered where Orientaar was...
Go to it!!
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I heard an interview awhile back with some famous rock star who slurred the lyrics to a famous song and everybody thought it was intentional and cool. He said they were recording late at night and he had dozed off and snapped awake (or someone nudged him) when his line came up and he just got it out.
And there's a phrase in Simon and Garfunkel's Sounds of Silence that I can't make head nor tail of. I choose to leave it a mystery.
Tony
And there's a phrase in Simon and Garfunkel's Sounds of Silence that I can't make head nor tail of. I choose to leave it a mystery.
Tony
http://tinwhistletunes.com/clipssnip/newspage.htm Officially, the government uses the term “flap,” describing it as “a condition, a situation or a state of being, of a group of persons, characterized by an advanced degree of confusion that has not quite reached panic proportions.”
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Which one? Well, at least what does it come before or after?TonyHiggins wrote:And there's a phrase in Simon and Garfunkel's Sounds of Silence that I can't make head nor tail of. I choose to leave it a mystery.
Tony
Personally, I used to sing wrong lyrics to Jellicle Cats. What I thought was "have you been in the love nest of heaven and hell?" is really "have you been an alumnus of heaven or hell?"
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Re: Musical Malapropisms..
I always like to say "Scuse me while I eat some pie." I can't think of any right now but I have probably said millions.brewerpaul wrote:(eg Jimi Hendrix's "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy").
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Re: Musical Malapropisms..
When I was a wee lad, I thought Herb Alpert was singing "You see the sky / The sky's in love with you".brewerpaul wrote:(eg Jimi Hendrix's "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy").
Charlie
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When I first heard "Sixteen Tons" I thought the chorus was "St. Peter don't you call me cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company stove."
Well, gee, I must have been 5 or 6 at the time, and I had never heard of a company store. But I did know there were stoves that burned coal, and I thought this coal mine had a huge stove that used 16 tons of coal every day.
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My husband just mentioned that in the song "Teddy Bear's Picnic" he thought it said "the monkeys came in de skies" and he always had this mental pictured of monkeys swinging down from the trees or de skies and crashing the picnic.
Edited to add that my husband wants to make sure everyone understands he was in kindergarten at the time.
Well, gee, I must have been 5 or 6 at the time, and I had never heard of a company store. But I did know there were stoves that burned coal, and I thought this coal mine had a huge stove that used 16 tons of coal every day.
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My husband just mentioned that in the song "Teddy Bear's Picnic" he thought it said "the monkeys came in de skies" and he always had this mental pictured of monkeys swinging down from the trees or de skies and crashing the picnic.
Edited to add that my husband wants to make sure everyone understands he was in kindergarten at the time.
Charlene
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