mondegreen
MON-dih-green, noun
A misheard song lyric or phrase.
“For years her favorite mondegreen was ‘hold me closer, Tony Danza.’”
Where mondegreen comes from
A writer coined it in 1954 after mishearing one line of a ballad for years.
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