Vol. 07 · Misheard ·1961
"You and I in a little toy shop."
That isn't the lyric.
What you hear
"You and I in a little toy shop."
What's actually sung
"You and I in a little canoe." Moon River (variants) — traditional / various (1961)
Why the ear defaults
A long-standing mondegreen of lullabies and folk lyrics — the imagery of a toy shop at bedtime is more cognitively sticky than a canoe.
Hear another line wrong?
Play the misheard duel — pick the real lyric, round by round.