'For years I thought the lyric in “Don’t Stand So Close to Me”:
  Just like the old man in that book by Nabokov was Just like that big pineapple cart.'

Am I Right also has the following mondegreens for those lines

Just like the old man in
The book I never caught.           

Just like the old man in
That book 'I Have A Cough'.

Just like the old man in
That book by an avant garde.

Just like the old man who
Got bit by an apricot

Just like the old man who's been bit by an albatross.

That book by Alvin Koff

That book might never come

Just like the old man
Who's been hit by an apple core
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