Half the horrid angels sing...

[Dilbertian]

One of my dc had mild glue ear so was forever mis-hearing things, the others were just - little.

I always ask my dc what sort of birthday cake they want me to make. My turning-3 Christmas baby asked for "sweet cheese". Cheesecake? I made sense when I watched their nursery Nativity. The children sang "Happy Birthday Sweet Jesus".

What are your favourite mistakes that your children sang?

Not a Christmas mishearing, but hope it's ok to join in. DC used to ask to go and see the Alarmas in the field nearby. (Llamas) ⏰🦙

My daughter came home from school and told me they had been learning all about Jesus and the Leapers. Conjured up all sort of images in my head! 😄

Instead of "in a one horse open sleigh" my ds sings "in an open aeroplane" in Jingle Bells. He adamant that he's right and we're wrong.

My choir are doing a little carol singing today and I know I'm going to have this on my mind. It can keep "Most highly flavoured gravy" company...

Ds used to sing along to Poker Face as follows:
Cherry mine, cherry mine
He's got a bit of my poker face
She's got a hobnob body

I always wondered whether that was a body made of hobnobs or one resulting from eating too many hobnobs

My sister used to ask to sing the song about the roundabout. It was Good King Wenceslas.

There was a BBC adaptation of Good King Wenceslas which featured a politician (and his longsuffering page, called Mark) trying to win over voters with giveaways. Which included the line "Page my footsteps good my Mark."

There’s an aled jones version of this and in the second chorus there is definitely a small ‘l’ inflection to most highly flavoured lady. Dh swears he doesn’t but he so does.

my god daughter misheard ‘in his masters steps he trod as ‘sexy frog’

I could never understand why "a green hill far away" would need a "city wall" @Dilbertian

My brother had glue ear as a child, and forty years on it's still Baby Cheese Us

Let us be Joyce…

Not a mishear, but does remind me of how we 8 or 9 year old kids would sing;

"While shepherds washed their socks by night, all seated on the ground, the angel of the lord came down, and said the blue pair's mine" 😆

Not quite the same but when DD had to sing Mary's Boy Child with school, no amount of practising could change her from exclaiming "Jesus Christ" as "Jee-zus Kerr-ist" - think dropping a hammer on your toe. The best I could hope was her classmates would drown her out, they didn't

I'm surprised she didn't draw you a lovely illustration of the story - where Jesus was clearly healing a bunch of spotted big cats!

If you don't know, in Scotland, a child is a wean (pronounced wain)

Which is probably why I was convinced that the hymn was "a wean in a manger".

I wasn't wrong, though

As a kid, I thought for years it was "Good King Wences last looked out..."

I also thought a street urchin in a story was a 'street urgent'.

Our version was: While shepherds washed their socks by night, all seated round the tub. A bar of fairy soap came down and they began to scrub!

The one went round high school was

When shepherds washed their socks at night all seated on the bank, the angel of the lord came down and taught them how to wank.

4yo was telling me that the leopards in her nativity are wearing tea towels on their heads.

DC was really really confused when his school had an INSET day, as he thought he was an INSECT day 😄

Also not Christmas but my 5 year old thought Freddie Mercury was Kicking his cats all over the place. I have a wonderful video of him singing it.

Loving this from NI.

While shepherds watched their flocks by night all watching RTE, the angel of the lord came down and switched to BBC.

Much more innocent

As a two-year old, DS was a massive Coldplay fan. He'd ask us to play his favourite songs on YouTube so he could dance. He'd get into a screaming rage as we would never play Fire Hole - we just couldn't work out which song it was!
Until the day Violet Hill came on the radio. 😂