Happy Friday! Christmas is fast approaching and the airwaves are filled with holiday songs. You may be tempted to cut loose and sing along, but are you sure you are singing the correct words? If have found yourself mishearing words to songs, you just might have found a mondegreen. Here are some amusing Christmas song mondegreens.
Enjoy!
Joy to the World – “Joy to the world! The Lord has gum…”
Joy to the World – “Joy to the world – and let’s have fun, let earth receive her keys…”
The First Noel – “Noel, Noel…Barney’s the king of Israel…”
Away in a Manger – “The catalog glowing…”
Away in a Manger – “The cattle are blowing the poor baby away…”
Angels We Have Heard on High – “Gloria in a Chelsea stable…”
O Little Town of Bethlehem – “Yet in thy dark streets China…”
Frosty – “Frosty the Snowman – Was a jolly happy soul – With a canecob pipe and a bloody nose…”
Twelve Days of Christmas – “On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, ten lawyers leaving…”
Jingle Bells – ‘“Bells on bob tails ring, making spare ribs bright, what fun it is to laugh and sing, a slaying song tonight…”
Deck the Halls – “Don we now our day of peril, Fa-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la…”
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
“Come in, — come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!” ~
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