I was off in another corner of the internet, reading the comments section of The Volunteer Auxiliary Thought Police, where it was pointed out that the lyrics to Bob Dylan’s Tangled Up In Blue are not “split up on the docks that night…” but are actually “split up on a dark sad night…”
And, since this is the internet, there is a word for this phenomena: Mondegreen.
Tags: Bob Dylan, Mondegreen, Tangled Up In Blue, The Voluntary Auxiliary Thought Police