Hi Woodsy,
the recent Moonbase post on the Ideal Toys Beverley hillbillies truck has put the TV show theme song in my head again.
As a kid I always thought Jed was
"...a former mountaineer" and worst of all, in the closing song I thought the word "Stallenfell" was just something I hadn't heard of, as opposed to "Stay a spell"
It turns out there's a name for misinterpreting song lyrics, it's called Mondegreen.
The most hilarious example is my wife who, for decades thought the Theme from Shaft included the line "He's a carpet movin' man, but no one understands him like his wooooman..."!
Do you suffer from Mondegreens Moonbasers?
Looey
Oz
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