religion : hymns - I Used To Believe

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We used to sing a hymm at primary school called "Oh Jesus I have promised", which had the line "I hope to follow Duly, My saviour and my friend". I had an older sister called Julie, and wondered if she was named after the person in the song everyone wanted to follow.

Chris Smith

As a kid at primary school aged about 5 i used to sign "brother no one built the ark" instead of the correct "brother Noah built the ark"

in came the animal 2 by 2

I used to think that the words of a popular christmas carol were...

Oh Come all ye faithful
Joyful and Triangle

Anon

in the hymn 'Gabrieals message' i alway thought the last line was 'highly flavoured gravy' instead of 'highly favoured lady'! whooops!

We had to sind carols at school, but not having any clue about religiou stuff, I used to be sure that the words were..

"and in thy dark streeets CHIIINA "

because obviously its dark in China....

"and in thy dark streets shineth", just doesn`t work for me, even now

Mike

Did anyone else sing "Hark, the hairy angels sing"?

Jill

When my 93 year old Granddad was a boy his favourite carol was "Hark the Harold (yes, Harold) angels sing"... He was sure they were singing about him as his name was Harold!

go Granddad!

As well as the popular "I am the lord of the Dance SETEE". We had another hymn "Who build the Ark? Noah! Noah!", but I thought the lyrics were "Who build the Ark? No-one No-one" I couldn't understand why we were singing a song about an ark that no-one had bothered to make

Paul, (Berlin at the time)

I was probably about sixteen until I realised there wasn't a magical kingdom of Orientar (as in 'We free Kings of Orientar').

steve

Not me, but my best mate used to be in the school choir, who every Easter used to do a concert which included Handel's Messiah. Instead of "the Lord God omnipotent reigneth", my mate thought for years that it was "the Lord God on impotence reigneth".

Baz

a friend's aunt was quite unsure why during the holy mass she had to sing a song about a cross-eyed bear called gladly. years later she found out that she was supposed to be ready to support jesus by confirming "gladly, the cross i'd bear"

jankai

When she was a kid, my mother hated the carol "Good King Wenceslas" because she thought the line "Thou and I shall see him dine" was really "Thou and I shall see him dying".

EJH

My mother told me once that it was a mortal sin to sing Christmas carols if it wasn't Christmas. (I think she was just tired of listening to them.) Even though I loved Christmas carols I was deathly afraid to sing any before November 1 or after Christmas, or else I would go to hell when I died.

Anon

Instead of harvesting, I thought the people in the hymn were herding sheep. "Bringing in the Sheep..."

Len

At Christmas time all the churches near my house would build a manger scene and populate it with sheep, goats, etc. So when I heard "Joy To The World" I thought the line was "And havin' a nature scene..." instead of "And Heaven and Nature sing..."

Gary

I thought the hymn "Toiling On" had something to do with having a really difficult bowel movement.

Mark, Vermont

I also used to mishear the words to 'Lord Of The Dance'. We had an old Dansette record player, & I thought the words were 'I am the lord of the Dansette' (pronounced Dan-Set-ee)

Anon

I used to belive the song "Lord of the Dance" contained the following lyrics

:Dance, dance wherever you may be, I am the Lord of the Dance settee.

Ianh

The Xmas song's line actually is "And good will toward man"... I thought it was "Anger will Demand". Mom and I still laugh about it!

Jacquee

At the end of Sunday School in church they used to take a collection (donation of money ) from each one of us.
I believed ( aged 4/5) that every week the teacher left Sunday School and went up to heaven to give the money to God!!!

Gill

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