This Week in Mondegreens

[moon_custafer]

 Just looked up the lyrics to The Grateful Dead’s ‘Brokedown Palace,’ and the line I’d always heard as “hang myself for bail” turned out to be “make myself a bed,” which certainly fits better with the rest of the song; but then I tried googling the phrases “hang myself/himself/oneself for bail,” because I thought it had to be a real expression, akin to “cheating the hangman,” but no such expression came up.

Apparently when I first misheard the phrase, I also assigned it a meaning. I suppose if I ever do have occasion to use it, I can claim to have coined a phrase.

Comments

[sovay]

“hang myself for bail”

I like that!