Saturday, May 3, 2008

Longstanding Mondegreen

Hey, I'm not the only one who has ever misheard a song lyric. But this one has not been corrected in over twenty years. The other night we were watching American Idol (really for the first time ever) and they were singing Neil Diamond songs from over the years. One contestant sang Forever in Blue Jeans. I have always, always heard that as Reverend Blue Jeans! I guess I thought this songwriter was especially spiritual, LOL, or maybe Neil never enunciated well. The singer that night did. I was like, "What? Did he change the lyrics? What happened to the reverend?!" Hoo hee, ha ha!

Still, it's not as bad as, "Sugar fried honey butts!"

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