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
As a kid, I thought the chorus lyric in the Englebert Humperdink song "Les Bicyclettes de Belsize" was "Lady Sinclaira Belsize".
ReplyDeleteMisinterpreting song lyrics isn't the fault of the listener, its the fault of the producers and/or singers, who do not enunciate clearly. And some of that, at least, is deliberate, to "hook" the listener. SFZ
ReplyDeleteThe song Convoy, by C.W. McCall, contains a line that I thought was 'Short Troops Microbus', which made absolutely no sense. I finally came to the conclusion that is was actually 'Chartreuse Microbus', so a yellow-green Volkswagen passenger van. In my defence, chartreuse is hardly an everyday word.
ReplyDeleteIn Manfred Mans Blinded by the Light they sing what I think is Wrapped up like a dooshawalla? What's a dooshawalla?
ReplyDeleteBingo, Woodsy! Blinded by the Light is one of the Classic Mondegreens often discussed.
DeleteI always thought the line was "Wrapped up like a douche"
As you probably know, a very unflattering term.
It turns out the proper line is "Revved up like a Deuce, another runner in the night"
The Deuce being a car, as in
"It's my little Deuce Coupe, you don't know what I got"!
Ha ha! Love it Looey! Solved at last!
DeleteDeuce being a 1932 model, usually a Ford. That that exhausts my knowledge of Hot Rods.
ReplyDeleteMine too Paul! Except I think there were Hot Rods in the 1950s schlocker The Gila Monster!
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