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For 30 years I sang "whoa-a, head waving" instead of "whoa-a, we're halfway there"


The term for this is mondegreen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen

The ones I still hear despite knowing the correct lyrics are the first itemized one in the bullet list in that article, "there's a bathroom on the right".

My personal favorite one though is "I want to rock and roll all night, and part of every day" (instead of "party every day"), mostly because unlike most mondegreens it sort of works, but changes this confident declaration of desire into a bizarrely flaccid one. (Listening directly to the audio in a pristine listening environment like I'm in now I don't hear this, but in a normal day-to-day environment with other life happening I can still hear this.)


My friend thought brown eyed girl started with "hey there amigo" instead of "hey where did we go"


Ha! This is another one of mine, but I had thought, for a while, that it was 'hey there Rodrigo'


ooof but the syllables don't match! It didn't make your brain hurt??? you just stretched out the -'ing'?


I can hear head waving by ignoring the we're (pretty easy to do). Stretching the -ing is even easier.

Oooo-uh head waveang


Oh wow! I used to think it was "invisible tough shed", instead of "invisible touch, yeah"


And my favorite one from my wife:

A modern day warrior Mean, mean stride Today's Tom Sawyer Mean, mean guy




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