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?

We set our llamas every night to wake us up in the morning

According to ds many years ago Shania Twain felt like a Womble....

The same ds who when asked what he thought of my Boxing Day sale hat declared I looked like a lovely sheep....
Back it went....

My daughter, after being at nursery, was chatting away on our way home about Baby Gingers.

There used to be a set of little dolls you could buy called Quints.. my daughter shouted “Look Mummy, cunts! ” at a large group of parents and children in “ToysRus”, whilst pointing at the stand directly behind them.

I LOVE 'half the horrid angels'.

We had one who used to bellow out 'TWO PURPLE GLOVES and a partridge in a pear tree'.

Much more sense as a Christmas present than 'turtle doves'...

That is the correct lyric, is it not?

I think the confusion with this song usually arises owing to a misunderstanding of the word 'without'.

Most of us nowadays would use it to mean 'not including', but when the song was written, it was used to mean 'outside of'.

Therefore, it wasn't saying that this hill didn't have its own city wall - which does indeed sound weird, as why would some lone hill be considered a city? - but that it was outside the city wall, conveying the point that it was some distance from the main population base.

@AConstipatedAccountantJustCantBudget Ah, thank you for explaining.

We actually used to sing it as "outside a city wall" so I couldn't understand what the pp was meaning.

I have now googled and can see it is also sung as "without a city wall"

When I was little I asked my mum "who saved our deer?" She looked confused so I said "it was Jesus" the hymn was "Jesus Christ, our saviour deer"

I will never forget my four year old daughter looking at me sneering as she couldn’t believe I thought ‘Jesus Christ’ was the correct name. My daughter was adamant that it was Jesus Price, as in a surname.

This was also the year where she told us angrily that some robot put Jesus in a cage. (Romans put Jesus in a cave).

My daughter spent alot of that December putting a doll up her dress and then giving birth to ‘baby Jesus’ and introducing herself as ‘Mary’ all in a high pitched voice (still don’t understand why Mary spoke like Mickey Mouse).
I do have some wonderful videos!!

"The little Malteser, asleep on the hay."
(Not a child of mine, but a family member.)

We four Beatles of Liverpool are
John in a taxi, Paul in a car
George on a scooter, tooting the hooter,
Following Ringo Starr.

And it was Sunlight Soap in our version of While shepherds washed their socks at night.

I always thought it was a 'one horse soap and sleigh' when I was little

This. It's "without", as opposed to "within".

When my son was in reception many years ago, they watched a programme called El Nombre about a little Mexican mouse. My son called it el nan bread and would not except he was wrong.

Years ago my younger brother was learning 'Silent Night' in school.

He insisted the lyrics were, "Paul is calm, Paul is bright".

DS2 used to sing "here I am to worship, here i am to countdown". He told me his teacher said the word was "bountdown" but that's not a word so she must have been wrong. He could read as well, so no idea why he didn't look at the screen!

And when he was even younger he told me his favourite song ever was "the dark settee". When I asked him what he meant he sang "I am the lord of the dark settee"

Mind you, DS1 was always a fan of Stand In the River by Adam Ant.

Driving my daughter and her friend to a Christmas party when they were about 6.
Friend asked me who my favourite reindeer was. I replied “Rudolph, how about you?”
Friend says her favourite one is Olive.
I said “errrrmmm, was there one called Olive?”
Friend looks at me like I’m daft and sings “Olive the other reindeers, used to laugh and call him names…”

Without a city wall = outside the city wall. Hill just outside the city.
(I got that from an ‘Uncle Mac’ record many years ago!)

Vague memories of 'Good King Wens-less last looked out....."

There are always the titters at "heat was in the very sod".

The other puzzle about the "Green Hill Far Away" song is: why was the hill green, in a desert country?

And likewise, "snow had fallen, snow on snow": in a desert country?

Christmas-wise, DD sings in Jingle Bells: “Making spirits cry.” Which to be fair sums up being a parent of small children at Christmas.

She loves the acclaimed Taylor Swift lyric “it feels like the perfect night to dress up like hamsters”. And from Mary Poppins, “my heart starts beating like a big brown bear”.

I have to look up the words for 'We Three Kings' otherwise I will sing a version not suitable to be sung in a church!

not xmas but my daughter used to sing the jessie J song at the top of her voice :

she gotta body like an albatross......

DD asked, after Easter, to sing "gravy grows". I eventually realised it was "Up from the grave He arose!"

We have also had "Diesel shark" as part of the Baby Shark family. (This is the fault of Thomas the Tank.)