I used to believe that "Orientar" was a place, as in "We three kings of Orientar".

Lise K

We used to sing a song in sabbath school called "I'm glad I brought my offering". I instead always sang "I'm glad I brought my orphan ring"

Katie

In the hymn 'Lord, Have Mercy on Us All', I used to sing Lord have mercy on Azal and I thought "Azal" was a little man in a spaceship like the one in Button Moon!

Monkey

I was around 6 or 7 and When we went to Church, I thought my folks were genuises because they never needed to use the hymnals to sing,,,yet, they mysteriously seemed to know all the words to every hymn.

ari, Queen of Fatigue

When I was at first school one of the songs we used to sing in assembly used to go "I am the Lord Of The Dance said he" but I thought it was "I am the Lord Of The Dance settee"!! Even when I found out I was wrong I still stuck with my version because it was more fun!!

Denise

I used to believe that the line in the hymn We Three Kings was:

"We Three Kings of Orientar"

revs.org

We used to sing 'there is a green hill far away without a city wall' at school. I thought it meant that every hill should have a wall built around it! By the time I'd become a Christian as an adult the words had been changed to 'outside a city wall' I understood then that Jesus was crucified on the grotty bit of rubbish dump that no-one wanted to live on - quite a revelation.

Sue

One Easter Sunday, when my little brother was young, we went to Mass. At the point where we sing Amen, my brother wanted to participate. He started singing at the top of his lungs "Goblin, Goblin, Goblin!"

more religious than him

when i was in junior school (in the uk - 7 to 11) we used to sing hymns every morning, and this one hymn drove me mad, everyone else *loved* it, but i'm partailly deaf so i couldn't always work out what was being sung, infact i was given some of the hymns on paper so i could sing along. but this one i wasn't given, so i had no idea what was being sung, and the fact that everyone loved it so much annoyed me even more... it was the hymn that goes "hand me down my silver trumpet lord" - i used to think it was "garbrielle my silver trophic lord" and i was like "what the HELL is a silver trophic lord?!"

padfoot

Once I was in church when I was 6 and there was this song we sung and I thought we were singing "Alchohol in the Lord". What the heck was that supposed to mean???

M

I could read at an early age and during Christmas we were singing "It came upon the Midnight Clear". For the longest time I thought the line went "the world in SOLOMON stillness lays" and for some reason Kins Solomon had something to do with the Nativity. My mom realized what I was singing and stifling a giggle informed me the "n" was silent!

Nikki

I couldn't understand why people would call themselves "Wrenches"
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wrench like me...

Wickwire

I used to think that the last line of the song 'Lord of the Dance' was 'Dance then, wherever you may be, I am the Lord of the Dance settee' and for years afterwards I had this image of Jesus danicng on a settee!

Anon

"Mark and Gerald's angels sing
Glory to the new born King..."

"Our Father
Who art in Heaven
Harold be thy name..."

Harold. WORSHIP ME!

I was convinced that the hymn 'Lord of the Dance' contained the lyrics 'Don Sept, whoever he may be, I am the Lord of the Dance said he' and pictured a Pied Piper type character leading children dancing all over the hills as he played a recorder. This persisted until I reached the Juniors and we were given our own hymn books... I still picture him thus!

Sarah K

A friend of mine said he thought the song lyrics "he's got the whole world in his hands" was "he's got the whole world in his pants" oops!

Cat

I have a cousin named Reece and I used to have a step sister before my dad and her mom got divorced. My step sister went to Bible School and learned a new song that she started to sing around the house. It was called Resist the Devil (and he will flee from you). Her song caught my attention as she was singing "Reece is the devil and he will flee from you'!

Lee

when i was around 4 or 5 we sang this song in church it was called learning to lean i hated the song and would not sing it with the others because i thought it said learning to leave jesus
and i didn't want to leave jesus

Anon

I though that the words to the hymn 'Sing Hosanna' were 'Sing Lasagna' - my verion was much tastier!

Mandy

My younger brother, now 12, always thought that the Christmas carol went, "The first noll, the first noll..." Nevermind that it has no meaning, he believes it to this day...

Anon