Re: Lyrical mistakes.
OK, now you're talking mondagreens! (or mondegreens, alt. spelling)
There's an old Scottish ballad, The Bonnie Earl O'Murray, which opens with the lines,
Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl o'Murray,
And laid him on the green.
However, singer after singer made the last line "And Lady Mondagreen" instead. The fictitious Lady Mondagreen thus lent her name to the entire genre of mis-heard and mis-repeated song lyrics.
I thought of this last night listening to a CD of Robbie O'Connell singing The Earl of Murray. It's one of those interestingly personified idioms, like "spoonerism," that go back to a specific reference point.
Cheers to Lady Mondagreen! Hope she "kissed this guy" and found the "bathroom on the right."
Allen Hopkins
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