![]() “Michelle, my belle, someday monkeys play piano well.” Actual lyrics are in French: “Sont des mots qui vont tres bien ensemble.”.“You take a piece of ‘meat’ with you.” Actual lyric: “A piece of me with you.”.“I’ll never leave your pizza burning.” Actual lyric: “I’ll never be your beast of burden.”.“It’s too late to call the child.” Actual lyric: “It’s too late to apologize.”.“Just brush my teeth before you leave me.” The actual lyric: “Just touch my cheek before …”.“Lookin’ for that Mormon girl” instead of “looking for that woman girl.”.“Southern Cross” (Crosby, Stills & Nash) “My son thought (it) was ‘smooth Doppler radar.’ I still sing it like that sometimes.”.“Got My Mind Set on You” (George Harrison) So read along - and sing along - to some of the best (listed here by title and artist and edited for space and clarity). We asked readers to share their funniest “mondegreens” with us. As a girl, Wright said she had misheard the lyric “and laid him on the green” in a Scottish ballad as, “and Lady Mondegreen.” ![]() It was coined in 1954 by American writer Sylvia Wright. The term for these misquoted lyrics, explains West Jordan resident Guy Briggs, is “mondegreens.” ![]() The actual words, though, are, as the title suggests, “There’s a bad moon on the rise” - and they are among a chorus of musical phrases where what was sung and what we heard just didn’t match up. ![]()
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