What's your favorite mondegreen?

Merriam-Webster recently released its list of new words for the 2008 update of the Collegiate® Dictionary. I couldn't help smiling when I read the definition of the new word "mondegreen." I had never heard that word before and I was curious what it meant. A mondegreen is "a word or phrase that results from a mishearing of something said or sung." Who among us can't identify with that? Who hasn't been singing the lyrics of a favorite song in front of another person only to hear that person exclaim, "What did you just say?!" And once you repeat what you've just sung, "Those aren't the words to that song!" And then you end up feeling like a fool. For a film reference of the phenomena, see the "Louie, Louie" scene in the movie "Coupe de Ville" (one of my favorites).

My most memorable mondegreen is from Spandau Ballet's "True." When the song was released in 1983, I was just seven years old. For some reason, I thought the lyrics of the chorus were "I know this barge is tripping" instead of (what makes more sense) "I know this much is true." How a barge trips and why someone would sing about it, only my seven-year-old mind knows. But to this day, I can't hear the song on the radio without laughing about it.

Of course, there have been many mondegreens for me over the years -- sometimes I even think that my made up lyrics are better than what they really turn out to be -- but none as memorable or as ridiculous as the one I mentioned above.

What are your most memorable mondegreens? Post your favorite mondegreens to this blog so we can laugh about them together. The dictionary publisher is also asking for your submissions here.