Misheard -or rather misanalysed- lyrics to songs are called mondegreens. This article gives the etymology. snopes.com: Christmas Carol Mondegreens
My favourite is probably "the hot dogs go on" for "the heart does go on" in 'I will always love you'.
Oh and Desmond Dekker's 'the Israelites' turns out to be the most prolific producer of mondegreens.
How about you?
Nous like scouse or French -oui? We wee whee all the way ... to mind us a bunch of thunks. Too much information? How could that be?
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