It's that time of the year when children maul carols...

[PrettyCandlesAndTinselToo]

Aapparently only "half the herald angels sing". What about the rest? According to 5yo ds, "Because they didn't want to. They wanted to play instead."

What have yours done to the carols?

Not DCs but me...

I have only this year discovered that the Winter Wonderland lyric is actually not:

"In the meadow we will build a snowman
And pretend that he is partly brown"

I'm in the States, so not sure if you'll recognize this one, but a classic around here is "Feliz Navidad". My children seem to think it is "Belize Nah-ne-Nah".

Only the 2 classics here...mis-sung on purpose.

We three Kings of Orient are
One in a taxi, one in a car,
One on a scooter, honking his hooter

Star of Wonder, star of night,
Fill your pants with dynamite,
Light the fuse and off you go,
All the way to Mexico.

and

Joy to the World,
the teacher's dead....

Wot, no shepherds washing their socks by night all seated round the tub?

My five year old mindee sang 'five gold rings, four talking birds, the French hens, two turkey ducks...' .

It's our favourite song on the school run at the moment and the new lyrics make be every time I hear it or think of him singing it.

I've just come back from a Reception show, where quite a few of the children were singing about "sweet cheeses".

My elder two used to do that, but my youngest didn't. He only recently stopped insisting that the man was called "Whenjesus".

at "partly brown"

When DD was four she was convinced that cats were part of the Christmas story. It was that well-known line from, "Away in a Manger" which apparently goes:

"The cats are meowing - the baby awakes..."

These are great :)

DS1 was convinced at the age of 4 that he was in fact a "shefford" in the nativity and therefore the carol went "Whilst sheffords watched their flocks"

As a child, I was also convinced that the words to King Wenceslas was in fact:

Good King Wences last looked out......