# Christmas Lyrics You Misheard as a Child.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 20, 2002, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948 "2002-12-20T01:47:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948/1 "2002-12-20T01:47:10Z")
Silent Night:
…“holy infant so tender and _wild_”
…“Radiant _beans_ from thy holy face”
Winter Wonderland:
…"Later on we’ll _perspire_ as we _drink_ by the fire.
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### Author:  [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948/2 "2002-12-20T03:07:17Z")
“R’s for R. E. Diemer…”
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### Author:  [@JerseyDiamond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerseyDiamond)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948/3 "2002-12-20T03:57:17Z")
Not really a Christmas song, but a Bible song.
In my 1st grade music class, we sang a song called “who built the ark” at least I think that is what it was called.
I didn’t really know what the song was about at that time, but I thought the word were:
Who built the ark, No one, No, one
Who built the ark, brother, no one built the ark 😃
Of course it was suppose to be **Noah**
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### Author:  [@Philosophocles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philosophocles)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948/4 "2002-12-20T06:20:05Z")
Good King Wenceslaus kicked ass every Christmas morning
Good King Wenceslaus kicked ass, never gave no warning
Good King Wenceslaus went out, drinking and a-whoring
Good King Wenceslaus was crass, Good King Wenceslaus my ass.
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### Author:  [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948/5 "2002-12-20T13:08:31Z")
God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen:
“…Oh, tidings of coppertone joy, coppertone joy
Oh, tidings of coppertone joy”
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### Author:  [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948/6 "2002-12-20T13:46:58Z")
“Winter wonderland” -
“In the meadow we can build a snowman. We can pretend it is _parse and brown._”
Amusingly, I only just realized _yesterday_ that it is supposed to be Parson Brown.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948/7 "2002-12-20T14:35:22Z")
Not a misheard lyric, but every time I heard it, I thought “Good King Wenceslaus…” should be…
“Good King What’s-His-Face looked out
On the Feast of Stephen…”
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### Author:  [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948/8 "2002-12-20T15:48:57Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by hillbilly queen \*
> \*\*Silent Night:
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> …“holy infant so tender and _wild_”
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> \*\*
Just when I thought you couldn’t be any more heroic (yep, you won me over with _Lordy Mama, like my shoes_) . . . 😃
I thought the exact same thing! As a kid, I always pictured Jesus having long, unruly hair even as a baby.
I can’t think of any other misheard Christmas lyrics, but I was always confused by “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”, where it says “every couple tries to stop”–I was never sure if it meant that every couple tried to stop \*under the mistletoe \* for some smoochin’, or if it meant that they tried to stop _kissing_ once they got under there so that someone else could have a turn!
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### Author:  [@Kendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kendo)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948/9 "2002-12-20T15:52:24Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by hillbilly queen \*
> \*\*Silent Night:
> …"Later on we’ll _perspire_ as we _drink_ by the fire. \*\*
You mean…it _ **isn’t** _ that? :eek: All these years…
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### Author:  [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948/10 "2002-12-20T17:01:29Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Gorgon Heap \*
> \*\*“Winter wonderland” -
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> “In the meadow we can build a snowman. We can pretend it is _parse and brown._”
> Amusingly, I only just realized _yesterday_ that it is supposed to be Parson Brown. \*\*
I thought that the lyric was ‘far from brown’… and yeah, I only figured it out a couple of years ago, too.
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### Author:  [@beefymeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beefymeg)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948/11 "2002-12-20T19:00:19Z")
“Angels We Have Heard On High”
**Glo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ria
In Eggshells We Traaa-vel**
Stupid Latin.
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### Author:  [@Jpeg\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jpeg_Jones)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948/12 "2002-12-20T19:28:20Z")
Jack Frost roasting on an open fire…
Chestnuts nipping at your nose.
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### Author:  [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948/13 "2002-12-20T19:32:32Z")
OR…
_Chipmunks roasting on an open fire…_
:eek:
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948/14 "2002-12-20T19:46:09Z")
I saw mommy killing Santa Claus
We three kings often tend bar
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948/15 "2002-12-20T19:56:21Z")
> [@](#):
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> **beefymeg:**
> “Angels We Have Heard On High”
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> Glo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ria
> In Eggshells We Traaa-vel
I thought it was:
Glo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ria
In eggshells a day old!
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### Author:  [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948/16 "2002-12-20T21:48:09Z")
Jpeg Jones, I came up with that one too. You can find it in the “Parody Song Fragments,” under the “traditonal” subhead at this website.
Other Dopers must surely heard of a line like this:
_We three kings of Orient are,
Tried to smoke a rubber cigar.
It was loaded and exploded,
That was the end of one king…_ 😃
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### Author:  [@beefymeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beefymeg)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948/17 "2002-12-20T21:50:20Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by swampbear \*
> \*\*Glo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ria
> In eggshells a day old! \*\*
Well, obviously, swampy (scroogey?), yours is _far_ more logical…
😉
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### Author:  [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948/18 "2002-12-20T22:02:44Z")
I used to have a book full of this kind of stuff kids have done:
**Teacher (checking a child’s nativity drawing):** So, who’s the fat guy?
**Kid:** Oh, that’s Round John Virgin!
And at Easter:
“Good picture, but why is there an aeroplane in it?”
“That’s for Ponshus the Pilot, silly!”
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### Author:  [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948/19 "2002-12-20T22:42:23Z")
No, no, no. It’s “Round young virgin.”
And for some reason, I’ve always sung “Sing, all ye **denizens** of heav’n above” in _O Come, All Ye Faithful_. Why? I do now know.
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### Author:  [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2002, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lyrics-you-misheard-as-a-child/143948/20 "2002-12-21T02:02:18Z")
I just found this out today.
In “Up On a Rooftop” it’s “Hear the raindeer pause” not “Hear the raindeer paws”
:mad: What’s with that?!
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