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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