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Posted by TheFallen on October 24, 2002

In Reply to: Another Mondegreen posted by Bookworm on October 22, 2002

: : : Who ya gonna call? - Phone's busted

: : A misheard lyric is called a mondegreen.

: : Until about 2 years ago, in Bad Moon Rising by Creedence I heard a lyric as "There's a bathroom on the right" instead of "There's a bad moon on the rise".
: : duh!

: I knew someone who misheard "Young hearts be free tonight" from Young Turks by Rod Stewart as "Your horse runs free tonight."

For all mondegreen fans, I heartily commend the site referenced below. It features hundreds of misheard lyrics of varying degrees of humour.

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