Arse! Never thought I'd have to say it but thank you Noel Edmonds for introducing me to world of mondegreen, i.e. misheard song lyrics.
"You come to me on a submarine" for "you come to me on a summer breeze", Bee Gees, How Deep Is Your Love, 1977
"Doughnuts make your brown eyes blue", Crystal Gale, 1978
For obscure reasons, mondegreens differ from the ordinary linguistic neo-malapropisms, i.e. eggcorns, as the funerary 'in the father, in the son and into the hole he goes'.
Much more to follow. Please feel free to add.
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