Seventeen Eggcorns

After our walk yesterday, Lynn and I were  relaxing on our backyard lanai when the Donovan song "Catch the Wind" started playing through our Sonos speakers. I confessed to Lynn that I thought that he was singing " all but our mirrors will try and catch the wind."

The day before I had learned that an actual literary term could be used to describe such a misinterpretation. That term is called an eggcorn.

We started looking up other famous eggcorns in rock music.

Here are a few of our favorites.

How many can you identify. 

1) If it ain't paradise, put up a parking lot

2) Here we are now in containers.

3) See that girl, watch her scream, kicking the dancing queen

4) you've been outright offensive for so long now.

 5) Since she put me down there's been owls puking on my head

6) I've got two chickens to paralyze

7)There's a wino down the road

8) Scuse me while I kiss this guy

9) the girl with colitis goes by

10) I get high, I get high, I get high

11) The ants are my friends

12) There's a bathroom on the right

13) touched for the thirty first time

14) she got a rag on, I move it above

15) That's where you find 'em, the lovers fuggers and thieves.

16) I tell her that I'll never lay her here.

and finally

Mickey didn't believe in fairy tales until one day, he had a conversation at social distance with a woman wearing a wonderful Covid mask. He agreed to meet her the next day on the same bench, at the same social distance. Once again they had a flirty conversation. They agreed to take off their masks. As Mickey tells the story, "then I saw her face now I'm a gonna leave her."