Cartoon Mondegreen

[beige_alert]

In this morning’s “Hi & Lois” cartoon, the kid, with his cowboys and Indians toys out, sings, “Oh give me a home of a buffalo gnome and the deer and the cantaloupe play... Where seldom is ‘nerd’ a discouraging word! And the spies are not drowning all day.” Dad says, “I think I prefer his version.” I guess it’s sort of a found-filk.

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[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

I like that kind of thing. I used to be a fan of Walt Kelly's Pogo, which featured a choice of manglings for a Christmas standard: "Deck the halls with Boston Charlie" or "Bark us all bow-wows of folly".

Real misheard lyrics can be a riot also. (There's an extensive web site somewhere that I'm being too lazy to look up right now.) The one that keeps coming to mind is a Grateful Dead piece rendered as, "Wake up to find out that you are disguised as a squirrel." I have a book of collected Robert Hunter lyrics with a preface that says, "I hope that seeing the intended words will provide you with an interesting, if not always convincing, variant on the words some of you actually heard."

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

I think there are several web sites full of those. I think someone set one up for people to contribute misheard lyrics and vote on whether the original or the mishearing is better.


'scuse me, while I kiss this guy...