"WHILE SHEPHERDS WASHED THEIR SOCKS AT NIGHT...
A 'mondegreen' is a mishearing of a statement or song lyric. Christmas carols and other holiday songs, rife as they are with seldom-heard words and phrasings and clever wordplay, are fertile fields for the sowing of mondegreens, especially when children, with their limited vocabularies, are involved.
Snopes, the Urban Legends Reference Page, has collected a variety of Christmas mondegreens from books, Internet postings, and reader e-mail."
(I could never figure out myself why "Round John Virgin" wasn't in the nativity scene like "Silent Night" said! Next to the socks above, though, my favorite's probably "Joy to the World! The Lord has gum!!")
A 'mondegreen' is a mishearing of a statement or song lyric. Christmas carols and other holiday songs, rife as they are with seldom-heard words and phrasings and clever wordplay, are fertile fields for the sowing of mondegreens, especially when children, with their limited vocabularies, are involved.
Snopes, the Urban Legends Reference Page, has collected a variety of Christmas mondegreens from books, Internet postings, and reader e-mail."
(I could never figure out myself why "Round John Virgin" wasn't in the nativity scene like "Silent Night" said! Next to the socks above, though, my favorite's probably "Joy to the World! The Lord has gum!!")
(from The Presurfer)
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