Jennilyn “Amy & Sara’s Mondegreen” - “…cherish virtue…” My sister-in-laws grew up convinced that meant, “Cherries HURT YOU!” and would not eat cherries. A misheard lyric is a Mondegreen. Origins: For many years she had misunderstood the last line of the Scottish folk ballad "The Bonny Earl of Murray," which reads: And they laid him on the Green. Ms. Sylvia Wright misheard as: And Lady Mondegreen.