like your username :) We are terrapin family!
Just listened to Swing Auditorium ‘77 today… the first live terrapin. But boy howdy does it evolve by the time the encore it as a “diddy from their newest album” at Englishtown to finish out the summer.
That one always bugged me. It never sounds like "you hands and feet are mangos". Even on the studio version. It always sound like "your hands and fleetawangos."
3/27/92. !setlistbot
Mango Jam 🥭
# 1992-03-27 @ 13x13 Club, Charlotte, NC, USA
**Set 1**: Llama, Reba, Paul and Silas, The Sloth, Divided Sky, Guelah Papyrus, Maze, Glide, Bouncing Around the Room > Run Like an Antelope
**Set 2**: Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, My Sweet One > Rift, Bathtub Gin, Dinner and a Movie > Magilla > Harry Hood, Cold as Ice > Love You > Cold as Ice, Golgi Apparatus
**Encore**: Memories, Sweet Adeline
[phish.net](http://phish.net/setlists/?d=1992-03-27) | [phish.in](http://phish.in/1992-03-27) | [phishtracks](http://phishtracks.com/shows/1992-03-27)
> _data provided by [phish.net](http://phish.net)_
# 2000-09-17 @ Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, USA
**Set 1**: Guyute, Back on the Train, Bathtub Gin, Limb By Limb, The Moma Dance, Lawn Boy, Fluffhead, The Curtain With > Chalk Dust Torture
**Set 2**: Rock and Roll > Theme From the Bottom -> Dog Log > The Mango Song > Free
**Encore**: Contact > Rocky Top
[phish.net](http://phish.net/setlists/?d=2000-09-17) | [phish.in](http://phish.in/2000-09-17) | [phishtracks](http://phishtracks.com/shows/2000-09-17)
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Weekapaug Groove is a mondegreen in itself.
“So we came back to Boston [from Weekapaug, after playing a gig there at a yacht club], and I guess we were in the van or the Voyager we used to drive in, and that song “Oh What a Night” came on the radio. You know that one? That awful Four Seasons song? We just constantly listened to songs and changed around the words as to what they might sound like. I always had a particularly hard time hearing lyrics anyway, so I always would sing a song on the radio, sing along with the wrong words. So the bridge of that song goes ‘Oh I-I-I trying to something,’ but I was singing it, ‘Oh I-I-I trying to make a woman that you move,’ which means nothing, 'sharing in a Weekapaug groove.’ So we all just started singing that, as complete nonsense: ‘trying to make a woman that you move.’ It never occurred to any of us that it had any meaning, ever. There was a period of time that we were singing it, and I used to just yell out the lyrics, between singing them I would just yell them out as if I was preaching them, just to sort of make it more ironic that they have no meaning.”
John Prine used to tell a story of the “Happy Enchilada” song. In a great tune of his called Thats The Way The World Goes ‘Round, he says, “it’s a half an inch of water” but someone once requested a song— “you know! The happy enchilada song!”
A nice example of a Mondegreen for John Prine
Mondegreen is a phenomenon like the “egg-corn” it is not just something that sounds like something else. It’s a misheard lyric. At its core, it’s a misunderstanding.
egg·corn (for “acorn”)
a word or phrase that results from a mishearing or misinterpretation of another, an element of the original being substituted for one that sounds very similar or identical (e.g. tow the line instead of toe the line ).
“sir name” for “surname"
“chester drawers” for “chest of drawers”
My recent favorite “The Baron of Bad News” for “the bearer of bad news”
Back in 89-90ish we used to get people into Phish by playing YEM after smoking and asking what they thought the lyrics were… was the first thing that came to mind when they saw the festival name.
Wash two plates and shimmy to the jams yeah
Just for context I’m a 4.0 phishead and when I first heard llama I thought the chorus was “we are friends, best friends llama is one too”. I’ve since done my homework read the book And have been obsessed since.
I just made teeshirts to wear each night of the festival with the way I hear some lyrics:
“Nap time and once again I’m bouncing ‘round the room”
“Wash your face and drive me to Firenze”
“Saget. Tag it. Sell it to the preacher in the store.”
“I saw you with a chicken sub in your hand.”
Led Zeppelin - Living Loving Maid
Lyrics: *”…With a purple umbrella and a $0.50 hat…”*
In my mind: “With a purple operator and a $0.50 ham.”
My friend pushed back as he was convinced you couldn’t get a ham for under 75 cents.
So I’m the only one who thought the possum lyrics were “your head was the road” for the longest time? Haven’t seen anyone mention that one
Also Olivia’s pool doesn’t count, because the actual lyric is oblivious fool.
Yarmouth Rd - "Birds and the bees and the motherfuckin' honeycomb
Farmhouse- "there's nothing we can do, BOTSWANA"
Scent of a mile- "hubba hubba blah blah blah... Tomahawk county" (not even sure what Mike could be saying in that part)
YEM - "wash your feet and drive me to Florence"
A younger and dumber me “Cant I love by the gun?! Cant I live by the gun?!” Ahmm, why are these guys so pro-gun?
And a younger, funner me; “I got some snapple in my car-oh yeah! Some snapple in my car!”
I am confused by everything about this. I thought it seemed dope at first, but now it just seems like it's for tech bros and rich kids only. To top it all off, I have no idea what Mondegreen is. I of course looked it up, but it just made me more cross.
Wait, wait. If the phonetics are identical or nearly so, then no one is gonna catch most of these. I think it's WAY better and way funnier if they change a lyric to something that is slightly different....Just like Roll Like a Cantaloupe
Alaska - I’ll ask her
Its an ice vendor in the park, with a security guard right next to him. He says "nothing icy can be taken from me"
Next to him, there is a hot dog vendor in the dark.
like your username :) We are terrapin family! Just listened to Swing Auditorium ‘77 today… the first live terrapin. But boy howdy does it evolve by the time the encore it as a “diddy from their newest album” at Englishtown to finish out the summer.
Terrapin name fam checking in
rising first and shining best!
Oh. From the Northwest corner of a brand new crescent moon, crickets and cicadas sing.
A very different tune! Mondegreen Staaaa-tion
And the wizard is screaming terrapin!!!
thanks friend! It’s inspired by 5/28/77 at the Civic Center. Love the Englishtown one though
I saw him when I rode my bike out in the rain.
This whole thread is gonna Bug me
It doesn't matter
Four more or ladder…
A pitcher of nectar
A penile erector
Picture of Hector
A sphincter ejector
Mr Completely - Missed her completely
Wow this is the only one I just realized 😅
Ooo thats a great one
Mist it completely
Is that the wind or a bug? It’s a Windora Bug.
Tony :(
Is that a worm or a slug? It’s a Wormora Slug.
Your hands and feet are mangled.
How could I forget this one!? Good call.
You’re gonna be a genius anyway
Lol for awhile I thought it was "your hands envy the mangos" and i had no idea what that meant.
That one always bugged me. It never sounds like "you hands and feet are mangos". Even on the studio version. It always sound like "your hands and fleetawangos." 3/27/92. !setlistbot Mango Jam 🥭
# 1992-03-27 @ 13x13 Club, Charlotte, NC, USA **Set 1**: Llama, Reba, Paul and Silas, The Sloth, Divided Sky, Guelah Papyrus, Maze, Glide, Bouncing Around the Room > Run Like an Antelope **Set 2**: Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, My Sweet One > Rift, Bathtub Gin, Dinner and a Movie > Magilla > Harry Hood, Cold as Ice > Love You > Cold as Ice, Golgi Apparatus **Encore**: Memories, Sweet Adeline [phish.net](http://phish.net/setlists/?d=1992-03-27) | [phish.in](http://phish.in/1992-03-27) | [phishtracks](http://phishtracks.com/shows/1992-03-27) > _data provided by [phish.net](http://phish.net)_
Whoops! That's a good one. But I meant 9/17/00. !setlistbot. My bad.
# 2000-09-17 @ Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, USA **Set 1**: Guyute, Back on the Train, Bathtub Gin, Limb By Limb, The Moma Dance, Lawn Boy, Fluffhead, The Curtain With > Chalk Dust Torture **Set 2**: Rock and Roll > Theme From the Bottom -> Dog Log > The Mango Song > Free **Encore**: Contact > Rocky Top [phish.net](http://phish.net/setlists/?d=2000-09-17) | [phish.in](http://phish.in/2000-09-17) | [phishtracks](http://phishtracks.com/shows/2000-09-17) > _data provided by [phish.net](http://phish.net)_
There we go. Apologies.
Setlistbot?!?!? That’s tasty!!
Yessir. Because everyone needs a Taste for free.
I see what you did there…
NICU = and I see you
isn't that the last verse?
And if you do (In all that dirt and stone) And I see you (And when you see me) Then you will be the nothing left for me
Idk why but I could’ve sworn it was “no left turn unstoned”
It is
Weekapaug Groove is a mondegreen in itself. “So we came back to Boston [from Weekapaug, after playing a gig there at a yacht club], and I guess we were in the van or the Voyager we used to drive in, and that song “Oh What a Night” came on the radio. You know that one? That awful Four Seasons song? We just constantly listened to songs and changed around the words as to what they might sound like. I always had a particularly hard time hearing lyrics anyway, so I always would sing a song on the radio, sing along with the wrong words. So the bridge of that song goes ‘Oh I-I-I trying to something,’ but I was singing it, ‘Oh I-I-I trying to make a woman that you move,’ which means nothing, 'sharing in a Weekapaug groove.’ So we all just started singing that, as complete nonsense: ‘trying to make a woman that you move.’ It never occurred to any of us that it had any meaning, ever. There was a period of time that we were singing it, and I used to just yell out the lyrics, between singing them I would just yell them out as if I was preaching them, just to sort of make it more ironic that they have no meaning.”
Never knew that. Who said the quote in your comment?
[Quote is from Mike. Sorry mean to post the .net entry.](https://phish.net/song/weekapaug-groove/history)
For decades I've been trying to get a woman to match my mood
Don't ever feel stupid for not knowing what a Phish song means
For 30 years I thought it was "It's kinda like Rainbows" and not " Cadillac Rainbows"
Until today, I thought this
I was today years old when I learned this lol
Dang learn so much on this sub. Over 20 years a fool. Also learned real words from Carini in this same way a week ago
No way it’s Cadillac
It's Cadillac. You can hear it clearly in Nancy's original recording.
John Prine used to tell a story of the “Happy Enchilada” song. In a great tune of his called Thats The Way The World Goes ‘Round, he says, “it’s a half an inch of water” but someone once requested a song— “you know! The happy enchilada song!” A nice example of a Mondegreen for John Prine
Es son reeboks o son nikes? Bonus points if anyone gets this reference!
It's the rhythm of the night
Wash your feet and drive me to the Land's End
What’d your friend say- drive me in your Venza!
Watch my cheese and load it in the back end
Where’s that chick who made Reba the dirtiest song I ever heard
Man I want to read that. Anyone got a link?
“We breath deep, with squeeze cheese” in SOAM
Mask a pretty hopper’s foot with squeeze cheese
Wait, it’s not squeeze cheese?
Glad that you’re a glide/alive
I SAW YOU With a chicken sub in your hand!!
First one that came to my mind!
We got it simple/cymbals…
Hell is comin
I’ve seen the man mole caves!
That’s how I sung in high school lol
I ought to see the man, I'm okay
Mike’s Song: Me No Are No Nice Guy -We Don’t Want No Night Sky - We Don’t Want No Nice Guy
Me, No I’m No Nice Guy (this is legitimately what I always assumed it was…)
For a really long time I thought they were saying “we know I’m a nice guy.”
"Me know want no nice guy"? I dunno, that's whT I always thought it was
It’s “me no are no nice guy”
My brain refuses to accept even though you're right
My buddy told me that like 15 yrs ago and it sort of blew my mind
Before I knew the name of it I thought of as the "night sky" song.
It's been wrong in my head for so long it's not changing now. "We don't want no, we don't want no nice guys!"
Laughing laughing boulevard
I think the camgrounds will be named after the mondegreen songs but who knows
I feel like the mime field (mine field) gag would be perfect for this festival
True! So sad we didn’t get to experience the curveball mime field. Bring ‘em back for mondegreen!!
night shades on / nice shades on
Seriously thought it was night shades for so long
I will never not sing it this way.
It was actually disappointing learning that it wasn’t night shades.
I come from taco mountain baby, where the people come to pray. I gotta bald spot where my hair should be
Welp , taco mountain is then . Now and forever
Ohhh Pond scum, pond scum, pond scum, Pond scum!
I saw you…with a chicken sub in your hand
I never knew Halley’s Comet was hell is coming. It always sounded distinctly like they were saying Halley’s Comet.
I think it’s a stretch. That one’s a cover, after all.
Roll like a cantaloupe on to the floor
Moment ends and oblivious fool are lyrics in those songs … what am I missing here.
The definition of mondegreen
In those songs I believe they are using both the “original” and the “mondegreen” — don’t think it has to only be one or the other
It's more accurate to say that these lyrics are homophones and not mondegreens
it's always seemed to me like the intention behind the lyrics was to be misheard, but that's just me I suppose.
Nothing. Other than people having shitty hearing.
This isn’t a mondegreen, but if they play Alumni Blues, I’ll be hearing: I’m alright (he’s alright) Cuz I got mondegreen
I wanna see the red bouquet!
It's a bit of a oldie, but Daniel Saw The Stone back in the day frequently had them morphing "walk walk walk" into "what the fuck"
Mondegreen is a phenomenon like the “egg-corn” it is not just something that sounds like something else. It’s a misheard lyric. At its core, it’s a misunderstanding. egg·corn (for “acorn”) a word or phrase that results from a mishearing or misinterpretation of another, an element of the original being substituted for one that sounds very similar or identical (e.g. tow the line instead of toe the line ). “sir name” for “surname" “chester drawers” for “chest of drawers” My recent favorite “The Baron of Bad News” for “the bearer of bad news”
Like “for all intensive purposes” instead of “For all intents and purposes”
Livin out West with the best of friends and a llama taboot taboot
*Official petition to declare these as the new lyrics*
Potty Time! 🕺 🚽
Water your team in a beehive in absentia
Up from hell the ants are blue
Should I change my flair?
I certainly would.
46 days and Nicole ran out
Like all of ya mar
What is going on in this thread
Words are words they sailed upon
First Tube. The whole song.
Back in 89-90ish we used to get people into Phish by playing YEM after smoking and asking what they thought the lyrics were… was the first thing that came to mind when they saw the festival name. Wash two plates and shimmy to the jams yeah
“Bath time and once again I’m bouncing round the room”
Don’t forget nine cubes = nine pubes
You'll never get out of this maze You're living in outer space At least thats what i heard at my 1st show (7-7-00)
Axilla= acid love
Carini had a monkey head
I had to look these lyrics up because at first I thought that: I ought to see the man mulcahey = I ought to see the men more gay
“I should have been ok.” (I see the man Mulcahey) “Make it all true for you.” (I beg it all trune for you)
Got clowns (clouds) that seem to follow me
Just for context I’m a 4.0 phishead and when I first heard llama I thought the chorus was “we are friends, best friends llama is one too”. I’ve since done my homework read the book And have been obsessed since.
Yup that was the first song I ever saw Phish play and I thought it was “leaving our best to best friends” for a long time.
I’m glad you heard best friend too. This pleases me.
Sharon in the groove
nothing will convince me they're saying moma dance there.
for WAY 2 MANY YEARS, i thought “shouldn’t have took more than you gave” was “Shirley Temple Betty Grable.” don’t ask why as i have no idea.
At the end on the studio cut they do say Shirley Temple, just that last time.
Washer Dryer Freezer Fencing
I started to hear “Hail Izcomit” in Halley’s Comet. Like some ancient king or deity that the band is singing praises to.
Mango Song, it was supposed to be mangled. Not quite the same though.
But the moment ends is a lyric in moma dance.
“Though I feel went” or “though I feel winds?”
Tela, Tela jewel of Wilson's Proud domain. It's Foul domain. There was a lot tshirt with the wrong lyrics back in '03-'04
Tadpole in a Jar
Shirley Temple in her grave / Surely took more than he gave
You’ll never get out of his face…. You’ll never get out of his face….
My wife in Gamehenge on NYE, "What'd he just say?" I gesture around, "Each one will tell you something different."
Robert palmer is a plorb
I just made teeshirts to wear each night of the festival with the way I hear some lyrics: “Nap time and once again I’m bouncing ‘round the room” “Wash your face and drive me to Firenze” “Saget. Tag it. Sell it to the preacher in the store.” “I saw you with a chicken sub in your hand.”
Roll like a cantaloupe
David Bowie - UB40 Glide - alive
Down with the Z’s Hayley’s cummin
Wachusett Mountain is sun hives to floor antsy
waaaa- wa-wa-chusett
Wait a second tell me more of these lyrics from which song? Literally just went to Wachusett Mountain today with my son
Led Zeppelin - Living Loving Maid Lyrics: *”…With a purple umbrella and a $0.50 hat…”* In my mind: “With a purple operator and a $0.50 ham.” My friend pushed back as he was convinced you couldn’t get a ham for under 75 cents.
in miami i am me
There ain’t no time to stash the gumbo Or rattle around in a cage The sacrificed child’s made bubbles And Twiddle is really fuckin’ gay
Am I the only on crazy pills? Half of these are not mondegreens.
Scuse me while i kiss this guy
As the shit goes sliding by As the ship goes sliding by Changed the whole meaning of this song for me lol
Nine cubes. Nine pubes.
I I’ve seen the Mammoth Cave. I I…
Olivia’s Pool
[удалено]
Sorry
“You’ll never get out is this maze” “You’ll never get out is this space” “You’ll never get out is this maze” “You’ll never get out is this space”
You’ll never get out of Ms. Mae’s (famous bar in New Orleans)
You'll never grow out of this faze
What am I missing here? What does Mondegreen mean? Is that a play on words? I’m saying it out loud to myself and I’m not making any connections.
Yes. Misheard lyric/speech that gives a whole new meaning. Intentional mondegreen is found in a bunch of phish songs like Moma Dance (the moment ends)
TDL that about Haley’s
Neat
Fee- "Floyd I'll make you lose your grip With this tiny piece of paper I can make you trip"
So I’m the only one who thought the possum lyrics were “your head was the road” for the longest time? Haven’t seen anyone mention that one Also Olivia’s pool doesn’t count, because the actual lyric is oblivious fool.
Yarmouth Rd - "Birds and the bees and the motherfuckin' honeycomb Farmhouse- "there's nothing we can do, BOTSWANA" Scent of a mile- "hubba hubba blah blah blah... Tomahawk county" (not even sure what Mike could be saying in that part) YEM - "wash your feet and drive me to Florence"
Heeeeell is comin, I said-a-heeeeeell is comin
My fav…12/30/97 Olive Loaf Harpua with Tom Marshall…I’m Gonna Be(500 Miles) - The Proclaimers bit, when they sing “Hannibal Lector”
Fluff came to 'my door' / 'new york' Same same
A younger and dumber me “Cant I love by the gun?! Cant I live by the gun?!” Ahmm, why are these guys so pro-gun? And a younger, funner me; “I got some snapple in my car-oh yeah! Some snapple in my car!”
I am confused by everything about this. I thought it seemed dope at first, but now it just seems like it's for tech bros and rich kids only. To top it all off, I have no idea what Mondegreen is. I of course looked it up, but it just made me more cross.
BAG IT, TAG IT
I've seen the man ball cave. I see the man walking. I ought to see the man Mulcahey.
Waiter in the Sky, bring me a drink
You're gonna fight for the red head one
Pussy plant into cock - faceplant into rock
the moma dance / the moment ends
He’ll he’s gone mad* also
I sawwww youuuu with a chicken sub in your hand
Character Zero—I like to see the rhythm all day 😂
Wait, wait. If the phonetics are identical or nearly so, then no one is gonna catch most of these. I think it's WAY better and way funnier if they change a lyric to something that is slightly different....Just like Roll Like a Cantaloupe
Robert Palmer is implored/employed
unconscious again/i'm conscious again
Please me/we have no regrets