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'Mondegreen' is the term for misheard or misinterpreted song lyrics. It was coined by Sylvia Wright after a line in a song she misheard when she was young:

"They hae slain the Earl o' Murray, and laid him on the green"

was heard as "They have slain the Earl o' Murray and Lady Mondegreen".

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