Editing Mondegreen (section)

===Standardized and recorded mondegreens===
Sometimes, the modified version of a lyric becomes standard, as is the case with "[[The Twelve Days of Christmas (song)|The Twelve Days of Christmas]]". The original has "four colly birds"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/Notes_On_Carols/twelve_days_of_christmas.htm |title=A Christmas Carol Treasury |website=The Hymns and Carols Of Christmas |access-date=5 December 2011 |archive-date=8 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120108145033/http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/Notes_On_Carols/twelve_days_of_christmas.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> (''colly'' means ''black''; compare ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'': "Brief as the lightning in the collied night"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shakespeare-navigators.com/dream/T.1.1.html#145|title=Shakespeare Navigators|access-date=7 May 2015|archive-date=11 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150511221014/http://shakespeare-navigators.com/dream/T.1.1.html#145|url-status=dead}}</ref>); by the turn of the twentieth century, these had been replaced by ''calling'' birds,<ref>{{cite web|title=Twelve Days of Christmas|url=http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/Notes_On_Carols/twelve_days_of_christmas.htm|access-date=10 November 2013|archive-date=30 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131130013920/http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/Notes_On_Carols/twelve_days_of_christmas.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> which is the lyric used in the now-standard 1909 [[Frederic Austin]] version.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/Notes_On_Carols/twelve_days_of_christmas.htm|title=A Christmas Carol Treasury|website=The Hymns and Carols Of Christmas|access-date=5 December 2011|archive-date=8 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120108145033/http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/Notes_On_Carols/twelve_days_of_christmas.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Another example is found in [[ELO]]'s song "[[Don't Bring Me Down (song)|Don't Bring Me Down]]". The original recorded lyric was "don't bring me down, Gruss!", but fans misheard it as "don't bring me down, Bruce!". Eventually, ELO began playing the song with the mondegreen lyric.<ref name="ultimate">{{cite web |first=Nick |last=DeRiso |title=Why Did Jeff Lynne Add 'Bruce' to ELO's 'Don't Bring Me Down'? |website=Ultimate Classic Rock |date=6 June 2019 |access-date=6 June 2019 |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/electric-light-orchestra-dont-bring-me-down-bruce/ |archive-date=7 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607082122/https://ultimateclassicrock.com/electric-light-orchestra-dont-bring-me-down-bruce/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The song "[[Sea Lion Woman]]", recorded in 1939 by Christine and Katherine Shipp, was performed by [[Nina Simone]] under the title "[[See Line Woman]]". According to the liner notes from the compilation ''A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings'', the correct title of this playground song might also be "See [the] Lyin' Woman" or "C-Line Woman".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Treasury-Library-Congress-Field-Recordings/dp/B0010W0MW8|title=A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings|website=Amazon|access-date=14 May 2009|archive-date=16 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016012516/http://www.amazon.com/Treasury-Library-Congress-Field-Recordings/dp/B0010W0MW8|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Jack Lawrence (songwriter)|Jack Lawrence]]'s misinterpretation of the French phrase "pauvre Jean" ("poor John") as the identically pronounced "pauvres gens" ("poor people") led to the translation of ''La Goualante du pauvre Jean'' ("The Ballad of Poor John") as "[[The Poor People of Paris]]", a hit song in 1956.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jacklawrencesongwriter.com/songs/poor_people_of_paris.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927205843/http://www.jacklawrencesongwriter.com/songs/poor_people_of_paris.html|url-status=dead|title=Jack Lawrence, Songwriter: Poor People Of Paris<!-- Bot generated title -->|archive-date=27 September 2013}}</ref>