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Couldn't resist telling you all this story. During college I visited my roomie's home and met her family members of a strict sect of Dutch Reformed. Sunday morning the youngest child stayed after services for Sunday School and then walked home. Waiting at the door for her Little One, my friend's Mother was pleased to hear her young daughter singing "Onward Christian Soldiers" as she marched along ... that is until she belted out the words "with the cross-eyed Jesus going on before."
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Directly related of course, to the ursine nemesis of all optomotrests:

Glad Lee, the cross-eyed bear.



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I've heard of Gladly, the cross-eyed bear.


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Dear wow: Would the fond mama have preferred the version: "With the Cross of Jesus left behind the door"


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Matt Groening, the creator of the Simpsons, did a good one of the Pledge of Allegiance in his comic Life in Hell - I read it years ago. I'm sure the Pledge of Allegiance has been done a million times, but it's pretty funny nonetheless...

"I plead alignment to the flakes
of the united snakes of a merry cow
and the Republicans for which they scam
One nacho, underpants..."

and so on. I can't remember the rest. However, since I'm Canadian, I don't know the real text to the Pledge, and Groening's version is the only thing that comes to mind when I hear the Pledge of Allegiance!

On another American note - Ramona Quimby, a character in children's books, learned the Star Spangled Banner as "Oh say can you see, by the donzer lee light" and she was convinced that a "donzer" was a type of lamp, which gave off a "lee" light (she figured it somehow described the type of light). Pretty good. However, that bit didn't make much sense to me when I was about nine because I had never even heard the Star Spangled Banner at that time.


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I've heard of Gladys, the cross-eyed bear.


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Gladly is a good friend with one of the angels -- the angel Hark Therold -- as in "Hark Therold angel sings.."




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I was curious about the origin of the word 'mondegreen', and found this:

Oh, they have slain the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen

The term mondegreen for misheard lyrics comes from this. It originated from Sylvia Wright's mishearing of the 'Oh, they have slain the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green' line from the Scottish folk song, 'The Bonny Earl Of Morray'.


Cited as examples of common mondegreens were the following:

"There's a bathroom on the right" ~Creedance Clearwater

"'Scuse me while i kiss this guy" ~Jimmy Hendrix

and

"The ants are my friends; they're blowing in the wind" ~PP&M

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Ipsa scientia potestas est ~Bacon

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there is a Mondegreen site-- http://www.thechicagoloop.net/lyrics/ with hundred of of them




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My autistic son is an unending source of mondegreens. I'll probably be able to add to this thread until you kick me off.

In the movie, The Lion King, the juvenile son of the king, Simba, sings a song with the refrain,

I just can't wait to be king.

My son's version gives homage to a fine soul singer:

I just can't wait B B King.


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