[Magdalen] Frivolous question

Joseph Cirou romanos at mindspring.com
Sun Jul 26 00:40:59 UTC 2015


The syncretic hermitesses are proposing to add the adapting and use of
mondegreens as one of the optional aleatoric vows.

Mother Ste Folitesse, votiste

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 7:28 PM, James Handsfield <jhandsfield at att.net>
wrote:

> The term mondegreen comes from one phrase in that ballad:  “They brought
> him to rest and Lady Mondegreen.”
>
> That was a mis-hearing of “They brought him to rest and laid him on the
> green.”
>
> There’s a wonderful mondegreen in the song ‘Wildwood Flower’ made popular
> by the Carter Family.  It comes in the verse:
>
> I will dance, I will sing and my life will be gay.
> I will charm every heart, in his crown I will sway.
> I woke from my dreaming and all idols were clay
> And all fortunes of loving had vanished away.
>
> The mondegreen is in the second line which was originally written (not by
> AP Carter) ‘in this crowd I survey.’
>
> -------------------------------------
> Education is its own reward, both for the individual and for society.
>
> Jim Handsfield
> jhandsfield at att.net
>
> > On Jul 25, 2015, at 7:17 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > We all know that when you mis-hear something and turn it into something
> > else that might make sense to you, it's called a "mondegreen", from the
> old
> > Scottish ballad about the Earl of Moray.
>
>


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