Forum Overview :: No Stairway to Heaven :: Dream Weaver: 44 years of mondegreen

[quote name="Commander Tansin A. Darcos"]One of the songs In happen to like is Gary Wright's 1975 hit, <i>Dream Weaver</i>. And while I've probably heard it since hundreds of times since it was first played on the radio, I've been hearing it wrong. In the beginning, I <i>heard</i> him sing: I've just closed my eyes again Climbed aboard the Dream Weaver train Trying to take away my worries of today And leave tomorrow behind I listened to it today on a YouTube video that included the lyrics, and realized I've been mishearing that for 44 years! There is one small difference with the <i>actual</i> lyrics, which are: I've just closed my eyes again Climbed aboard the Dream Weaver train Driver, take away my worries of today And leave tomorrow behind In a way, this makes more sense to the song, as he is singing the song to the train's engineer. I confirmed this from a performance of the song he did on the 1970s TV series <i>The Midnight Special</i>. And I'd been hearing it wrong all this time. — — — — In case you didn't get the title of this post, when someone mishears a word or phrase from a poem or a song, that mishearing is called a <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mondegreen">mondegreen</a></i>.[/quote]