Mar. 30th, 2014 06:11 pm
I'll be damned if it's not Turkish
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muckefuckThere are mondegreens, and then there mondegowans. This one of my all-time favourite tunes from The Pogues:
For 25 years, this is how I thought the chorus went:
Did you keep a watch for a dead man's hand?
Did you see a woman with a coal in her hand?
Wail, wail, and waltz
As we dance to the Turkish song of the damned!
This is what they're apparently:
Did you keep a watch for the dead man's wind?
Did you see the woman with the comb in her hand
Wailing away on the wall on the strand
As you danced to the Turkish song of the damned?
For 25 years, this is how I thought the chorus went:
Did you keep a watch for a dead man's hand?
Did you see a woman with a coal in her hand?
Wail, wail, and waltz
As we dance to the Turkish song of the damned!
This is what they're apparently:
Did you keep a watch for the dead man's wind?
Did you see the woman with the comb in her hand
Wailing away on the wall on the strand
As you danced to the Turkish song of the damned?