Here Are the 10 Most Misquoted Holiday Songs

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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, 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”
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