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What is lady mondegreen?
This term means mis heard lyric. Basically a woman in 1954 was listening to a scottish song where one of the actual lyrics were: they "laid him on the green"the woman however misheard it as lady mondegreen and the term came to represent any misheard lyric
In jimmy hendrixs "purple haze"people inevitably hear one of the lyrics as "'scuse me while I kiss this guy!"definite example of a Lady mondegreen for sure!
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Lady mondegreen - what is it?
This term means mis heard lyric. Basically a woman in 1954 was listening to a scottish song where one of the actual lyrics were: they "laid him on the green"the woman however misheard it as lady mondegreen and the term came to represent any misheard lyric
In jimmy hendrixs "purple haze"people inevitably hear one of the lyrics as "'scuse me while I kiss this guy!"definite example of a Lady mondegreen for sure!