Mondegreen Fingers

The first recollection I have of any kind of lyrical mishearing (also known as a ‘mondegreen’) comes from when I was at school in Great Baddow, Essex. To set the scene, I should mention there’s a road in Great Baddow called Beehive Lane. In school assembly each morning, as well as singing the usual hymns, we’d have to recite the Lord’s Prayer – ‘Our Father, which art in heaven…’ One day the head teacher stopped the assembly and asked what words