--- title: Top Misquoted Holiday Lyrics from Amazon description: “Don we now our day of peril” canonical: https://time.com/3613554/misquoted-holiday-lyrics/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-02T15:22:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:56.326Z og:title: Here Are the 10 Most Misquoted Holiday Songs og:description: “Don we now our day of peril” og:url: https://time.com/3613554/misquoted-holiday-lyrics/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here Are the 10 Most Misquoted Holiday Songs twitter:description: “Don we now our day of peril” twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here Are the 10 Most Misquoted Holiday Songs  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Dec 2, 2014 3:22 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Dec 2, 2014 3:22 PM UTC The following 10 songs are the most frequently misquoted holiday classics and the funniest ways people have interpreted them, according to an Amazon survey. The data is a promotion for [X-ray for Music](http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?&docId=1001407921), an application that displays lyrics as tunes play. Happy sing-a-long! * “Auld Lang Syne”: “Should all acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mine, should all acquaintance be forgot in the land of old man time.” * “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)”: “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your toes” * “Winter Wonderland”: “Later on, we’ll perspire” * “Deck the Halls”: “Don we now our day of peril” * “Jingle Bells”: “Bells on cocktail rings” * “The Twelve Days of Christmas”: “On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me, four colly birds” * “Silent Night”: “Round John Virgin, mother and child” * “Joy to the World”: “Joy to the world! The Lord has gum” * “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer”: “Grandma got run over by a reindeer walkin’ home from outhouse on Christmas Eve” * “We Three Kings of Orient Are”: “We three kings of porridge and tar” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3613554/misquoted-holiday-lyrics/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3613554/misquoted-holiday-lyrics/"},"headline":"Here Are the 10 Most Misquoted Holiday Songs","datePublished":"2014-12-02T15:22:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:56.326Z","description":"“Don we now our day of peril”","url":"https://time.com/3613554/misquoted-holiday-lyrics/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3613554/misquoted-holiday-lyrics/","name":"Here Are the 10 Most Misquoted Holiday Songs"}}]}] ```