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Re:Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: The Science of Misheard ... by dredmorbius on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @06:11PM (#8732285)
My personal favorite isn't quite a mondegreen, but a lyrics shift. I've long swapped "Waking Up is Hard to Do" for the original "Breaking Up is Hard to Do" in Neil Sedaka's song. Years later on NPR's "Wait Wait", he said that he'd rewritten the song with the same words for his grandchildren.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1270438...

Re:Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: The Science of Misheard ... by ScottBurson on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @09:34PM (#8732889)
The interesting thing to me about this one is a line from the chorus that I always heard as "Comma comma down dooby-do down down", which of course makes no sense whatsoever. Somewhere along the way I saw an alternative transcription, "Come-a come-a down...", which I thought was much more plausible, as "comedown" is a word that would make sense here. But I just checked a couple of the lyrics sites, and they say "Comma comma"!