A MOTLEY MELANGE OF MONDEGREENS

Mondegreens: Misheard song lyrics, quotations, sayings, and the like

“Went to a dance, lookin’ for a man,/Saw Barbara Ann, so I thought I’d take a chance.”
(Actual lyric: “Went to a dance, lookin’ for romance,/Saw Barbara Ann, so I thought I’d take a chance.”)
-- Stan Kegel

“Revved up like a douche.”
(Actual lyric: “Revved up like a deuce.”)
-- Bekki

“Frying poultry in the sand.”
(Actual lyric: “By a palm tree in the sand.”)
-- Stan Kegel

“Strong in my face with his fingers.”
(Actual lyric: “Strumming my pain with his fingers.”)
-- Stan Kegel

“Strumming my face with his fingers.”
(Actual lyric: “Strumming my pain with his fingers.”)
-- C.M.

“Love me while you can./Love our dental plan.”
(Actual lyric: “Love me while you can./Before I’m a dead old man.”)
-- Stan Kegel

“Might as well face it, you a dick with a glove.”
(Actual lyric: “Might as well face it, you’re addicted to love.”)
-- Stan Kegel

“Her raunchy sandals too.”
(Actual lyric: “Huarache sandals too.”)
-- Stan Kegel

“She was a gay stripper.”
(Actual lyric: “She was a day tripper.”)
-- Stan Kegel

“She was a State Trooper.”
(Actual lyric: “She was a day tripper.”)
-- Stan Kegel

“I live for all the ugly people.”
(Actual lyric: “Ah, look at all the lonely people.”)
-- Stan Kegel

“And when I touch you I feel happy inside./It’s such a feeling that my love, I get hives, I get hives, I get hives!”
(Actual lyric: “And when I touch you I feel happy inside./It’s such feeling that my love, I can’t hide, I can’t hide, I can’t hide!”)
-- Stan Kegel

“Lucy in disguise with lions.”
(Actual lyric: “Lucy in the sky with diamonds.”)
-- Stan Kegel

“Lucy in the sigh which I meant.”
(Actual lyric: “Lucy in the sky with diamonds.”)
-- Anonymous

“Lucy’s getting high with Linus.”
(Actual lyric: “Lucy in the sky with diamonds.”)
-- Stan Kegel

“Moosemeat in the sky with diamonds.”
(Actual lyric: “Lucy in the sky with diamonds.”)
-- Stan Kegel

“Lucy and this guy are dying.”
(Actual lyric: “Lucy in the sky with diamonds.”)
-- Stan Kegel

“Selling puppies on a tray.”
Actual lyric: “Selling poppies on a tray.”)
-- Stan Kegel

“Bringing in the Sheets”
(Actual title: “Bringing in the Sheaves.”)
-- Karen T.

“Bringing in the Sheep.”
(Actual title: “Bringing in the Sheaves.”)
-- Karen T.

“We all live in the Amazon Marine.”
(Actual lyric: “We all live in a yellow submarine.”)
-- Stan Kegel