Strange Christmas lyrics
As I'm listening to Christmas songs today, I'm sure I'll hear "Walking in a Winter Wonderland." That song never did much for me because I grew up in Phoenix before moving to Dallas, so I haven't been a part of a lot of winter wonderlands.
However, when this line comes:
"Later on, we'll conspire, as we dream, by the fire ..."
My mind will instead think, "later on, we'll perspire, as we dream ..."
That's how I first learned the song, and it's stuck with me ever since. I was the stupid one on those lyrics, but there are many Christmas songs with some very strange lyrics.
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From Jingle Bells:
"The horse was lean and lank, misfortune seemed his lot, we ran into a drifted bank, and there we got upsot."
What the heck does "upsot" mean?
From Here We Come A-Wassailing:
"We have a little purse made of leather skin, we want a little money to line it well within."
Christmas beggars always brighten the holidays.
From Ding Dong Merrily on High:
E'en so here below, below
Let steeple bells be swungen
And i-o, i-o, i-o
By priest and people be sungen
Before writing swungen and sungen, I think someone was swiggin'
From The Most Wonderful Time of the Year:
There'll be scary ghost stories
And tales of the glories of
Christmases long, long ago
Scary ghost stories on Christmas? Maybe it's referring to A Christmas Carol, I don't know. I just always found it weird.