# Christmas songs you "misheard" as a kid
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-you-misheard-as-a-kid/522324
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 23, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-you-misheard-as-a-kid/522324 "2009-12-23T15:26:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-you-misheard-as-a-kid/522324/21 "2009-12-24T04:37:12Z")
I could never figure out what they were saying in the “round yon virgin” part of “Silent Night” and I hadn’t ever seen the words in print. When we had to sing it for a school program I usually faked my way through it and said something like “run yum version”. I was too embarrassed to admit that I didn’t know this part of the song.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2009, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-you-misheard-as-a-kid/522324/22 "2009-12-24T06:08:36Z")
When I was young I had an entirely different concept of “gay apparel.”
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### Author:  [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2009, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-you-misheard-as-a-kid/522324/23 "2009-12-24T10:23:18Z")
I always heard it as Don Wienaur Gay Apparel, which sounds like an upscale haberdashery.
Also;
Frosty the snow man, knew the sun was hot that day
So he said, “Let’s dance and have some fun now before I melt away”
Down through the village, with a **boomstick** in his hand
Runnin’ here and there all around the square
Saying “Catch me if you can”
I heard it that way for years. I can’t unhear it.
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### Author:  [@Chief\_Pedant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Pedant)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2009, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-you-misheard-as-a-kid/522324/24 "2009-12-24T11:23:28Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#):
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> My Three Kings were from Oreintar. I’m not sure where on the map that is though.
The three kings were from Oregon, I believe.
My personal favorite church song mondegreen is “Lead on, O Kinky Turtle” (and of course the eponymous one bears mention). For Christmas songs, it’s probably letting the earth’s receiver ring because the Lord has gum.
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### Author:  [@Chief\_Pedant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Pedant)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2009, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-you-misheard-as-a-kid/522324/25 "2009-12-24T11:37:17Z")
I was wondering what was already out there on the web for Christmas songs in particular.
Here are a handful from a Snopes link:
> **[Christmas Carol Mondegreens](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-red-and-the-mondegreen/)**
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> Misheard lyrics to Christmas songs are immortalized as 'mondegreens.'
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### Author:  [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2009, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-you-misheard-as-a-kid/522324/26 "2009-12-24T11:50:45Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#):
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> I always heard it as Don Wienaur Gay Apparel, which sounds like an upscale haberdashery.
I thought is was “Don Wienaur gave a parrow”. Never mind that I had no idea was “parrow” was.
I also thought it was “round, young virgin” as someone posted above.
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### Author:  [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-you-misheard-as-a-kid/522324/27 "2009-12-24T14:06:35Z")
I once knew a young woman who admitted to me that for a long time as a child she thought a “virgin” was a street corner, that " 'round yon virgin, Mother and Child…" referred to the two of them hanging out on a street corner.
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### Author:  [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2009, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-you-misheard-as-a-kid/522324/28 "2009-12-24T14:51:28Z")
You know those sticky plastic silhouettes that you put on your windows to make a christmas scene? Snowflakes, mangers, trees, or whatever? When I was 4, I thought there was a song about a person viewing such a display:
_In the lane, snow is glistenin’
A beautiful sight, we’re happy tonight,
Walking in a **window one daaaay!** _
I’m pretty sure this is one of my father’s fondest memories of my childhood, as he reminds me of it every year. But in high school, I came across Keats’ _Ode on a Grecian Urn_ and realized my version isn’t as silly as it seems.
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### Author:  [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-you-misheard-as-a-kid/522324/29 "2009-12-24T15:31:43Z")
Silent night, **pole** y night
As in the north **pole**. Makes perfect sense.
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### Author:  [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-you-misheard-as-a-kid/522324/30 "2009-12-24T16:02:39Z")
“Oh tiny bomb, oh tiny bomb…”
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