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That eggcorn is amazing, Grace!

How sweet the sound, that saved a wench like me. Gitchie, gitchie, ya ya. Mocha Chocolata ya ya. Cue ol' Lady Mondegreen.

A mondegreen is a "slip of the ear" by which a phrase in a song is commonly misheard, such as "wench like me" instead of "wretch like me" in Amazing Grace.

The term for such a mishearance was coined by Sylvia Wright, apparently in a November 1954 Harper's Magazine article entitled "The Death of Lady Mondegreen." The word "mondegreen" is, itself, a mondegreen of "They hae slain the Earl o' Murray and laid him on the green", from a 17th Century ballad The Bonnie Earl O' Murray, the last five words being misheard as "Lady Mondegreen".

Now, that's a heart wretching story. It really makes your heart go out to that poor wretch, Lady Mondegreen. Actually, "heart wretching" is an eggcorn for "heart wrenching."
Amazing
Graa-aaccee
How Sweet-
How sweet
The sound-
Sound
That saved, saved
A wrench
Like
Me I once was lost, lost yeah
Lost
But now Im found
What you say girl?
But
Now, Im found we still cant feel you
But
Noooowww, Im found
Was blind, but now I see
Ooh, ooh, ooh,
Ooh, ooh, ooh,
Ooh, ooh, ooh,
Ooh, ooh, ooh,
T'was grace that taught my heart to fear
And that my fears relieved
How precious did that grace
Appear
The hour I first believed
Thank you Lordy
These are supposedly the lyrics to Amazing Grace, by Destiny's Child.
Posted by abnu on Saturday, March 19, 2005 @ 3:02 AM [ + ]

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