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 song, but my (then) 4 year old told me that she liked the song about "the clown called Alice".

Almost 30 years later and I still can't hear the Jam's "A town called malice" without having a little chuckle to myself.

We three Kings of Orient are
One in a taxi, one in a car
One on a scooter, beeping his hooter
Reading the Shropshire Star

There was also a version involving Leicester Square...

DS (also had glue ear) used to loudly sing

Ginger Bells, ginger bells, ginger waterway.
What what fun, a tutu ride on a womble simple say, HEY!

Love these!

DD asked me why people were collecting money for Children in Neath (town in Wales ).

Thank you to all who explained so eloquently - I worked it out at English A levels all those years ago

We're three kings from Leicester Square
Selling knickers at tuppence a pair
No elastic
Oh how drastic
Very unsafe to wear

Ours was

We three kings of Leicester Square
Selling knickers - tuppence a pair
So fantastic
No elastic
Not very safe to wear

Oh, star of wonder, star of light
Fifty men on a motorbike
Westward leading
Still proceeding
Guide us to the pub tonight

After learning Silent Night at school, my 5 year old asked me what 'heavenly peas' were.

At primary school our version was

We three kings of orient are
Selling knickers at the bazaar
So fantastic no elastic
Only tuppence a pair

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh what FARM it is to ride on a one horse open sleigh.

Round John Birgin..

"While shepherds washed their socks by night
All seated in the tub
The angel of the Lord came down
And gave them all a scrub"

Courtesy of my dear old Dad

Star of wonder, star of light
Sit on a box of dynamite
Light the fuse and have a snooze
You won’t be there tomorrow night

Haha! I was imagining them as a bunch of Irish leprechauns, frantically leaping from one foot to the other!

A friend and I got a bit fed up rehearsing 'Bring a torch, Jeanette, Isabella' and altered it to 'Bring a torch and burn down the city, bring a torch to the stable, run'' and so on. It made a lovely contrast to our clear, bright soprano voices.

We were definitely old enough to know better (only in rehearsal, we weren't mad enough to do it in concert).

I think that's better than the original. From now on I'm going to be singing
"What what fun, a tutu ride on a womble simple say, HEY!"

Our version was

We three kings of orient are
One in a taxi, one in a car
One on a scooter, blowing his hooter
Fa la la la la la

Away in a manger,
No crib for a bed,
The little Lord Jesus
Laid down his wee ted 😁

My DS, now 24 singing "what's that coming over the hill, is it a bus stop is it a bus stop....he was about 6 then 😆

"Lo he abhors not the Virgins womb"

I didn't know what "abhors" meant so assumed it meant "to lust after".

I.e - God didn't lust after Mary, he put Jesus in her womb in a kind of chaste and pure manner.

He abhorred not her womb.

Also when slightly younger I thought the three kings came from Orientar.

Orientar was a very exotic country with palm trees, dunes and camels.

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

That’s my favourite so far.

I knew:
While shepherd washed their socks by socks by night
All boiling in a pot
The angel of the Lord came down
And stole the bloomin’ lot.

If we’re being educated:

Quel est cette odeur agreable
or
Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing, as Aled Jones sings

is known as The Pong Song.

I spent too long thinking she was,
”Being a wally, and doing it in style”