Holy Mondegreens, Batman, Here He Goes Again!
In addition to the ones I wrote about last year, here are a few more:
- Give us this day our deli bread.
- Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Whole East Coast.
- We shall come to Joyce’s, bringing in the cheese.
- Gladly, the cross-eyed bear
- Yield not to Penn Station.
- Praise God from whom all blessings flow, praise Him all creatures, HERE WE GO!
- Olive, the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names
- While shepherds washed their socks by night
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Brady
Easy. Daughter’s rendition of one of the tenor solos at the beginning of Handel’s Messiah:
Come for tea. Come for tea, my people.
Mike the Eyeguy
Excellent addition, Brady! Very original.
Terri
Not exactly a mondegreen but I just can’t keep a straight face singing about the “poor struggling semen” (seaman)
Mike the Eyeguy
Heh. That may be the mother (or should I say father?) of all mondegreens.
jON
…angels prostate fall…
Jon
oops hit enter too soon,
my youth ministers family was visiting and came to our devo one night. We sang “O’Lord prepare me to be a sanctuary..” I was sitting next to him as he belted out “O’Lord prepare me, for the cemetery..”
My friend Rod and Stacy and I were listening to an Acappella song “To win as many as possible” after the song was over Rod remarked it was quite a morbid song…he thought it was saying ..”Do in as many as possible.”
Ed
I always wondered why the Holy Ghost had so many holes!
Mike the Eyeguy
You guys are pretty good at this. Some pretty warped minds out there. Not to mention a lot of earwax.
Stoogelover
When my neice was a toddler and would pass gas, she would say, “I poohtayed.” She asked my sister once after church why we were singing “Almost Poohtay-ded” after the sermon.
Mike the Eyeguy
Oh man, I’m dying down here in Alabama. And it’s not from the gas.
lAURA
I heard about “Silent Night as, Round Young Virgin”, instead of round yon virgin.
Also, Cameran Traw’s family were missionionaries in Thailand and when they were visiting him while he was at Lipscomb got upset when they heard him listening to “Oak Ridge Boys, Elivra”. His dad thought they were singing “Hell Fire Up”. That was soo funny. He told us lots of funny stories like that.
Mike the Eyeguy
Laura, I was familiar with “round young virgin” but not “Hell fire up.” That’s a good one.
I guess I can go ahead and admit that for years I thought we were supposed to “deck the halls with bowels of Holly.”
DAVID u
I just couldn’t figure out why anybody would want to spend the night with a ball player from Central America or the islands…..”night with Ebon Pinion.”
Merry Christmas, brother!
DU
Mike the Eyeguy
DU, you get the prize, man!
Jason Bybee
This is a little late, Mike, but when I was in Tennessee, this teenage girl showed up late to a Bible study at our house. She walks in with tears streaming down her face. She’d been laughing so hard at her mother. Turns out that Mom was driving daughter across town and the Will Smith song “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” comes on the radio. Halfway through the song, Mom belts out what she thinks is the chorus….”Eatin’ Chicken With It”. Classic.
Mike the Eyeguy
Late, but no less hilarious.
Sort reminds me of this one.