Share Your Favorite Misheard Lyrics

Have you ever misheard a lyric? And maybe that confusion continued for weeks, or months? It's surely happened to all of us at one point or another. There are entire sites devoted to this phenomenon -- known as a "mondegreen." Maybe you're the one who heard the line from Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" as "'scuse me, while I kiss this guy." Or perhaps you misheard R.E.M.'s line in "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" as "Calling Jamaica" instead of "Call me when you try to wake her."

Or maybe you're our listener, Kara, who told us her favorite misheard lyric was from the Kiss song "Rock And Roll All Nite." The line is "rock and roll all nite and party every day" but she Kara heard it as "...and part of every day." Which, after all, sounds much more reasonable.

So what exactly is "mondegreen"? Soundcheck host John Schaefer explains the term this way:

A "mondegreen" is itself a mishearing of a line from an old Scottish poem. The American writer Sylvia Wright, as a child, heard this ballad, in which "they have killed the Earl o' Murray, and laid him on the green." She heard it as "they have killed the Earl o' Murray, and Lady Mondegreen." So she coined the term, sometime around the middle of the 20th century.

So, if you have a favorite misheard lyric, Soundcheck wants to know! Join our conversation with Billboard's Joe Levy and Time Out New York's Sophie Harris. Give us a mondegreen, and a story about it, here in the comments section, on Twitter and Facebook, or call our voicemail -- 866.939.1612.