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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. 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