Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Mondegreens of Andrew Lloyd Webber

Everybody knows how easy it is to mishear music lyrics as something else, especially when you're young.

Common mondegreens, as they're known, include songs like Jimi Hendrix' "'Scuse me While I Kiss this Guy," Bob Dylan's "The Ants are my Friends," and the ever-popular "Secret Asian Man," by Johnny Rivers. In the case of Rachel, who is only 3, her more recent mondegreen was a little more unexpected.

As we pulled out of the parking lot of the bookstore the other day, she started singing the title song from Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Jesus Christ Superstar" as "Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ / Who the heck is Jesus Christ?"

It appears we need to educate her a little better where religion is concerned.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

can anyone tell me the recent mondegren that was the patio exchange between James Spader and William Shatner on Boston Legal??