A kidhood mondegreen
“Keep your eyes to look out, keep your ears to hear.”
Mondegreen of the day
“Strumming my face with his fingers.” “Strumming my fate with his fingers.”
Sunshine of my mondegreen
“It’s gettin’ near dawn, when light grows a tiger’s eye.”
Modern mondegreen
“Sweet Loretta Modern.”
Pseudo-mondegreen
“Summer breeze, makes me feel fine, blowin’ through the chasm in my mind.”
Mondegreen, fixed
“As my wife Elaine pointed out to me, Jupiter cannot collide with Mars. Okay, if you say so. But also: in the face of such a collision, it makes no sense to speak of peace guiding the planets and love steering the stars.”