Misheard Christmas Lyrics

Toto Wolfcastle

For years I've been singing Mistletoe and Wine wrong.

Christmas time, mistletoe and wine, children singing Christy and wine!'

I know it makes no sense but I could never figure out what he was singing and I never bothered to look it up. It was only the other day when I properly listened that I realised it's 'children singing Christian rhyme.'

And today I realised that Wham aren't singing 'a crowded room, friends with tie dyes.'

Anyone else have any misheard Christmas lyrics? (Probably not. I'm particularly stupid!)

Das Kitty

Another one I had in Wham's.

"Reindeer, to save me from tears."

Quite how these tear-prevention creatures operated, I wasn't sure.

tea and coffee

Buble's "Cold December Night " : thought it was Santa's carols, but it's sound of carols. In my.defence, he sings the lyrics very fast in that song.

byhookorbycrook

Bit of an urban legend amongst teachers but anyhow "Away in a Manger" -the little malteaser lay down his sweet head,

mapaca

The teacher asks her class to draw a Nativity scene and goes round the room inspecting their work. She looks at little Johnny's drawing and asks him to explain who each figure is.
"Well that's Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus. There's the shepherds, that's the angel."
"OK, who's this chubby guy here beside them?"
"Oh, that's Round John Virgin!"

JustShon

For years I thought it was "round young virgin" as in she's looking round because she's pregnant as opposed to everyone gathering "round yon virgin"

Toto Wolfcastle

JustShon wrote: »

For years I thought it was "round young virgin" as in she's looking round because she's pregnant as opposed to everyone gathering "round yon virgin"

Ah jaysus, I thought that too until you posted.

JustShon

Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »

Ah jaysus, I thought that too until you posted.

Enjoy your first Christmas singing that song correctly

leahyl

It's the most wonderful time of the year "there'll be scary go stories" instead of "there'll be scary ghost stories" - that would be the most obvious thing but then why are they singing about ghost stories at Christmas?!

Radharc na Sleibhte

Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »

For years I've been singing Mistletoe and Wine wrong.

Christmas time, mistletoe and wine, children singing Christy and wine!'


Anyone else have any misheard Christmas lyrics? (Probably not. I'm particularly stupid!)

So weird OP, I came in to post the exact same misheard lyric. I'm not the only gob****e! Hurrrah!

Toto Wolfcastle

Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »

For years I've been singing Mistletoe and Wine wrong.

Christmas time, mistletoe and wine, children singing Christy and wine!'

I know it makes no sense but I could never figure out what he was singing and I never bothered to look it up. It was only the other day when I properly listened that I realised it's 'children singing Christian rhyme.'

And today I realised that Wham aren't singing 'a crowded room, friends with tie dyes.'

Anyone else have any misheard Christmas lyrics? (Probably not. I'm particularly stupid!)

I used think it was "Children singing whiskey and wine"

Loughc

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I used think it was "Children singing whiskey and wine"

Yep me too haha.

GreatDefector

Last Christmas I gave you my heart, but the very next day, you said you were gay

L'prof

Caesar, whooooooaaaaaa, let them know it's Christmas time...

The Rape of Lucretia

"Dashing through the snow
On a one horse soap and sleigh"


Couldnt figure out what the soap had to do with it.

corblimey

I thought I had a massive misheard lyric when I came across this YT video this morning.

https://youtu.be/xzv-SBd8ERI?t=4m

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzv-SBd8ERI

At the 4 min mark, there's a bit of ceefax from off of the 80s, where they are showing the 12 Days of Christmas lyrics, and there's 4 "colly" birds, where I've always said "calling" birds. Luckily, it seems like colly is the original archaic version, and it became calling birds at some point before I was born.

Which version do y'all sing?

Posy

I usually say "calling" birds but I know that it is originally meant to be "colly" birds too. Colly is an old word for black, so it meant 4 blackbirds. It just morphed into "calling" throughout the years.

Toto Wolfcastle

Another from Last Christmas: This year, to semi frontiers...

Whenever I hear Christmas Won't Be The Same This Year by the Jackson 5 on Christmas FM I think they're singing 'Christmas won't be the same this year without the Lebanon.'

This is a new one, and it's not a misheard lyric because she's definitely singing 'Happy Hollandaise'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OpBodtSyQ8

Eugene Norman

I doubt if I'm the only person who thought this but I always though Shane McGowan in Fairytale of New York sang

"God I'm the lucky one, came in at ten to one"

When it's

"Gotta lucky one, came in 18 to one"

CelticRambler

Not quite the same, but MrsCR used to look after cathedral choristers who would try to get away with deliberately "adjusting" the lyrics of favourite carols during their Christmas services. I can never hear "The Angel Gabriel" now without translating the second last line to "... most highly flavoured lady ..."

Posy

Eugene Norman wrote: »

I doubt if I'm the only person who thought this but I always though Shane McGowan in Fairytale of New York sang

"God I'm the lucky one, came in at ten to one"

When it's

"Gotta lucky one, came in 18 to one"

I could only ever hear "You're a slut, you're a mumble, you're an old mumble mumble, lying there mumble mumble like a mumble mumble mumble" until I actually googled the lyrics. :pac:

CrowdedHouse

A lot of people (myself included) think one of the lines of 'Driving Home for Christmas' is 'But soon there'll be a freeway' when it's actually 'three-way' (lanes I presume!)

Toto Wolfcastle

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

A lot of people (myself included) think one of the lines of 'Driving Home for Christmas' is 'But soon there'll be a freeway' when it's actually 'three-way' (lanes I presume!)

No way! That's mad. I thought it was freeway. I'm beginning to think that I have a problem with my hearing.

Loughc

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

A lot of people (myself included) think one of the lines of 'Driving Home for Christmas' is 'But soon there'll be a freeway' when it's actually 'three-way' (lanes I presume!)

Wow. I've been saying freeway for years.