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* [[Kings Of Leon]] has an intentional aversion/backstory example in ''Sex on Fire'', one of their biggest hits. The [[Word Salad Lyrics]] originally featured "Set Us On Fire" as the chorus, but ''everybody'' would Mondegreen it as "Sex on Fire". According to [[The Other Wiki]], one of the sound mixers came in and said, "Sex on fire, huh?" It became a running joke, and eventually the group not only changed the lyrics, but made it the album title track.
* The Peter, Paul, and Mary song "Leaving on a Jet Plane" inspired the Pinkard and Bowden parody "Libyan on a Jet Plane".
* "There's a bad moon on the rise" (Credence Clearwater Revival) was prone enough to mondegreen as "there's a bathroom on the right" that [[Bob Rivers]] actually recorded a parody of the song under that title. Not only that, CCR was known to occasionally sing it that way in concert.
* "Wrapped up like a douche" ("Revved up like a deuce" (coupe) in the Manfred Mann's Earth Band version of [[Bruce Springsteen]]'s ''Blinded By The Light'')
* "Loaded guns in your face" ([[Billy Joel]], "Pressure") can easily be misheard as "lonely cunts", something [[Moral Guardians|which can't be said]] on the radio.
* Likewise, "Play that funky music, white boy" (Wild Cherry) is easy to mistake for "play that f-cking music right, boy."
* From [[That Other Wiki]], [[wikipedia:Mairzy Doats|"Mairzy Doats"]] is built of intentionally inverting this trope. For those not willing to go to the link here are the actual lyrics on the sheet:
{{quote|''Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
''A kiddley divey too, woooden shoo?
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* Australian punk legends Radio Birdman took their name from a misheard lyric in [[The Stooges]]' "1970" - ''Radio '''burnin''' up above...''
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] got the idea for "Like a Surgeon" from [[Madonna]] Mondegreening her own song "Like a Virgin" while talking to a friend.
* [[Rush]]'s "Tom Sawyer" has a line ("Catch the witness, catch the wit/Catch the spirit, catch the spit") which has been misheard as "catch the fish". Which amused the band so much that they would (as many other bands have) sing the Mondegreened lyric -- while pointing to a rubber fish on the stage.
* [[Starship (band)|Starship]]'s "We Built This City" includes the line "[[w:Guglielmo Marconi|Marconi]] plays the mamba", but it has been transcribed (presumably by someone too young to know about the origins of radio) as "Ma Coney plays the mamba".
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== Web Original ==
* In ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s article "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131026113913/http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-new-years-ruins-everything-great-about-drinking_p2/ 5 Reasons New Year's Ruins Everything Great About Drinking]", number 2 is "The Music", because nobody really knows the lyrics to "Auld Lang Syne":
{{quote|Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never yab to bye, adaaa dada banana boat, and auld lang synnne.}}
* In the [[Riff Trax]] for ''[[New Moon]]'', the commentators joke that one of the songs on the soundtrack seems to say "Armed with your staring fly." The song is ''Roslyn'' by bon Iver and [[St. Vincent]] and the real words are "Aren't we just terrified?"
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