(I also posted this on my Facebook feed, but trust me: no one there will notice this.)
A "mondagreen" is a song
lyric that you've gotten wrong because you mis-heard the original,
e.g.: "Hold me closer, Tony Danza," or "Revved up like
a douche," or "El Kabong, what's that flower you have on?"
Pandora just played The Hollies' 1972 classic "Long Cool Woman," and for the first time I
followed along with the lyrics and discovered that over the last 44
years that entire song -- except for the title itself, which I got
entirely right -- that song has been, for me, one complete 3-minute
15-second mondagreen. Every single line I had wrong. Every one. That
song hasn't even remotely been about what I always thought it was
about. Not. Even. Close.
I have to think about this.
The one song I ever came this close to
getting entirely wrong was “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” the only song
my high school garage band ever wholly ruined.
Minute's up.
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