Meaning of "was to certain poor shepherds"

[Intergalactic_Gladiator]

@handsomeharry

That’s because there is no such thing as “Orient Are.”

The correct phrase was “Orien Tar.” I had that figured out by 1st grade.
Do I have to do all of the thinking around here???

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And in Silent Night, I keep thinking that Jesus is a holy imbecile, tender and mild.

I know that’s not right, but every year…

[Emily_Litella]

Tender and mild - it’s the marinade.

[Olentzero]

Emily Litella wins the thread.

[Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew]

@brujaja

So it’s saying, the first song that the angels sang rejoicing at the birth of Jesus was sung to certain particular shepherds.

I’m not certain that people who raise sheep for a living can afford to be too particular.

[Wendell_Wagner]

Skammer, I summarized it as just “gold and incense” because myrrh and frankincense are both just varieties of incense.

[dropzone]

@Wendell_Wagner

Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay,

“Was?” Not “t’was?” Learn something new each day.

[samclem]

@Colibri

In grade school (long before there was a Ringo Starr), we sang:

We three kings of Orient are,
Trying to smoke a Raleigh cigar,
It was loaded,
It exploded,
BOOM!

We sang the same in about 1956 “rubber cigar.” Hell, it didn’t make sense then. Maybe it shudda been “Raleigh.”

[Mona_Lisa_Simpson]

@samclem

We sang the same in about 1956 “rubber cigar.” Hell, it didn’t make sense then. Maybe it shudda been “Raleigh.”

In Canada, in the 1970s it was “Cuban Cigar”.