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* "Hey Sandy" by Polaris was the theme tune to ''The adventures of Pete and Pete'', with a famously unintelligible lyric which the band swore they would never reveal. The lyrics have been guessed as everything from "Can you settle to shoot me" to "can you see the shroom babe" and no one is any the wiser.

* One of the more famous mondegreens is "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" ("'Scuse me while I kiss the sky", [[Jimi Hendrix]], ''Purple Haze''). Hendrix, aware of the mondegreen, was actually known to pause at this point in the song and either point to or kiss one of his male band members during concerts. In at least a few live recordings, he very clearly says "kiss this guy" or "kiss that guy".

* Likewise, "Solid as a Rock" (Ashford and Simpson) was so prone to being twisted to "Solid as Barack" at the time of Obama's inauguration that the original performers on stage were leading the audience in this chant at one point.

* "Seven Nation Army" by [[The White Stripes]] has the line "And the feeling coming from my bones...", but it sounds ''exactly'' like "And the feeling coming from my balls..."

* [[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.