mondegreens back in the news

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> I always thought the locus classicus was Credence Clearwater's "There's a hurricane a-rising/There's a bathroom on the right".

Or, perhaps, Elton John's

"I'm a rocket-man / Rocket-man / Wearing out his shoes / Up here, alone."

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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