> > > > > > > > So, anyone wanna share some possibly embarrassing mishearings from their favorite songs in this thread?
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> > Not just songs. My favorites are from small children who say things like "Give us this day our jelly bread." "And to the republic for witch it stands." "Oh say, can you see by the dawn's early bright, what so proudly we fail..."
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> My favorite, "Jose, can you see by the dawns early light?"
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> Speed'hehe'ball

I read all of the Ramona Quimby books by Beverly Cleary numerous times when I was younger, and Ramona mixed up this line when she was in kindergarten. She thought it was, "Oh, say can you see by the dawnzer lee light?" She disovered her error when she asked her older sister to turn on the "dawnzer." "What?" her sister asked. "You know," said Ramona. "The dawnzer that gives a lee light."

Ell"Convinced that Ramona was modeled after my own sister"myruh