Lycanthropic mondegreen: [Was: Glory Road (1904? 1917? Civil War?)]

[Jonathan Lighter]

  A friend of mine used to sing that as "werewolf."

  It seemed to make history more relevant.

  JL

Jim Landau wrote:

A mondegreen not previously reported here: In the Irish war song
"O'Donnell Aboo" one of the stanzas begins with the line "Wildly o'er
Desmond the war wolf is howling." This is easily misheard as "Wiley
O'Desmond the war wolf is howling" and I know of a man named Desmond who at
least briefly got nicknamed "Wiley" due to this mondegreen.









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