Vol. 07 · Misheard ·1963
"The ants are my friends, they're blowin' in the wind."
That isn't the lyric.
What you hear
"The ants are my friends, they're blowin' in the wind."
What's actually sung
"The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind." Blowin' in the Wind — Bob Dylan (1963)
Why the ear defaults
Dylan's phrasing blurs the syllable boundaries — "the answer, my friend" compresses into "the antser-my-friend", which the brain re-segments as a plural noun.
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