What are some of your favorite "mondegreens"?

What are some of your favorite "mondegreens"?
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When my daughter and one of her friends were about 5 years old they were in the back of the car as I drove along, the stereo was playing Don’t Take Away My Heaven by Aaron Neville. The girls were singing “don’t take away my feather”, it is something I remember fondly.
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