A MOTLEY MELANGE OF MONDEGREENS

MONDEGREENS: MIS-HEARD, MIS-UNDERSTOOD SONG LYRICS, QUOTATIONS, SAYINGS, ETC.

“Gath’ring wine and gruel.”
(Actual lyric: “Gath’ring winter fuel.”)
-- Anonymous

“Hark the Harold angels sing.”
(Actual lyric: “Hark the herald angels sing.”)
-- Anonymous

“Glory to the New York King.”
(Actual lyric: “Glory to the newborn king.”)
-- Anonymous

“Goddamn sinners reckon sighed.”
(Actual lyric: “God and sinners reconciled.”)
-- Anonymous

“Goddamn sinners wreck a child.”
(Actual lyric: “God and sinners reconciled.)
-- Anonymous

“Joyful oily nations, rise.”
(Actual lyric: “Joyful all ye nations rise.”)
-- Anonymous

“Join the triumph of disguise.”
(Actual lyric: “Join the triumph of the skies.”)
-- Anonymous

“With the jelly toast proclaim.”
(Actual lyric: “With th’ angelic host proclaim.”)
-- Anonymous

“Bells on Bob’s tail ring.”
(Actual lyric: “Bells on bobtail ring.”)
-- Anonymous

“Bells on bobtail ring,/Making spareribs bright.”
(Actual lyric: “Bells on bobtail ring,/Making spirits bright.”)
-- Richard Lederer

“Oh, what fun it is to ride/With one horse, soap, and sleigh.”
(Actual lyric: “Oh, what fun it is to ride/In a one-horse open sleigh.”)
-- Anonymous

“Oh, what fun it is to ride with one horse, soap, and hay.”
(Actual lyric: “Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh.”)
-- Stan Kegel

“A one-horse soap in sleigh.”
(Actual lyric: “A one-horse open sleigh.”)
Elizabeth Gessner McAllister