[Magdalen] Frivolous question

[Jay Weigel]

The verse that was quoted in the original article was:

Ye highlands and ye lowlands
Where have ye been?
They have slain the Earl Amurray
And Lady Mondegreen.

(They have slain the Earl Of Moray
  And laid him on the green.)

I always think of this ballad, for some reason, in connection with the
assassination of Bobby Kennedy.

On Saturday, July 25, 2015, 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 <javascript:;>
>
> > On Jul 25, 2015, at 7:17 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> 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.
>
>