Regarding the belief about the misheard lyric of the sung "Amen" in an Easter Mass, it reminded me of something more appropriate. I'm a BIG fan of the Mass of Creation (by Marty Haugen) setting, people. If the organ (I mean a BIG, ritzy pipe organ) blasts out that section of this Mass setting that follows after "Christ has died, Christ is risen..." part, you might be thinking (if you're scared of it):

O-OR-GAN, O-OR-GAN, O-O-O-ORGAN!

(I drew out the vowel to emphasize how the "Amen" part of the Mass of Creation goes.)

Anon

we used to sing about cheese. 'my cheeses, nice flavour...' recognise it?!?

pixie

My father was a minister so I went to church regularly and even as a small child knew the words to almost all the hymns. When we visited my grandmother where my youngest aunt was still living at home she and I used to sit in the porch swing and take turns choosing hymns to sing. One of her favorites was "At the Cross" but one day when she chose it I informed her that my Mom didn't allow me to sing about worms. Remember the original version; "...for such a worm as I?" Now we sing "...for sinners such as I."

Sarah

I used to believe that the song "Amazing Grace" was about an old, blind bag lady who begged for money on the streets. One day, she had enough money for eye surgery.

Thus - she was once blind, but now could see.

Someone told me that was the meaning of the song.

Anon

I once went out with a girl, who's sister used to sing a song a school which went "damp damp where ever he may be, i am the lord of the damp settee!! It was actually called lord of the dance....lol

hnk69

Like many people, I believed the song 'Lord of the Dance' said "I am the lord of the dance settee," rather than "I am the lord of the dance said he." I had images of people getting up and boogying on this settee. Which, due to childish word connections, happened to be our grey and black settee.

Rachel

Growing up in church, every Sunday we sang the doxology, so I would dutifully stand and sing "Praise God from whom all blessings flow, Praise Him all creatures Hear Me Lord". Of course, it's supposed to end with "here below".

Why couldn't someone have please clued me in during 18 years of unknown embarassment??

one confused girl

my auntie used to believe that the song that goes "i am the Lord of the dance said he" was "I am the Lord of the Dump Settee!

Anon

In the Christmas song "Joy To The World" I thought the words were: Let every heart prepare Him a room.
It made sense to me because I knew the story where there was no room at the Inn for Joseph and Mary.

Scissorhands

My husband used to believe that Joy to the World contained the lyrics 'let Earth receive her keys" instead of "let Earth receive her King"

RiRi

While in church, I would constently hear the words "glory, glory to god in the highest." Thought I would hear it as "glory, glory to god in the high lands." since then I still get the metal image of god in "high land" or what I thought was yodaling on a mountain.

Luna

My cousins are 3 and 4, at they came to visit me and we went to church, there favorite song is called "We lift our hands in the santuaray" well our Praise team sang that song the sunday they came to visit, and I heard my cousins sing it > "We lift our hands in the araie garie,......

Chane

My mom used to think that there was a heavy-set man up in Heaven called Round John Virgin - from the Christman Carol "...round yon virgin, mother and child. Holy infant so tender and mild...."

Mark D

In the Catholic mass, there is a part where the priest or soloist sings: "hosanna in the highest, hosanna in the highest, blessed is he...etc. etc."

I used to think they were singing "Lasagna in the highest". We are solidly Irish, but there are a lot of Italians married in, and I fondly remember many St'Joseph's feasts at the parish hall as far back as I can remember. If you don't know what St. Joseph's feast is, then you certainly have not spent much quality time around Italians.

I told my father about the belief many times, and he does not believe me to this day.

TIPScommissar

The writers of the hymns that mentioned the word "breast" were perverts.

MDC

I used to believe that the old church hymn about bringing in the sheaves was actually talking about some farmer bringing in the sheep. I guess I thought that sheaves was the plural form of sheep.

Anon

At my old church we sang alot of hyms.. and there was one that said "and now, let the weak say i am strong, let the poor say i am rich because of what the Lord has done"..

But seeing as i couldn't read thien and had to learn the songs by ear, i sang the lyrics as "and now, let teh wheet say i am strong, let the corn say i am rich".. i new that in the old days they ran farms alot but i never got why the farmer's crops talked to them..

Doblica W.

This is really my elderly friend's recollection.

Her family bred Siamese cats, which were of course good mousers. When the little girl learned to sing, "Gentle Jesus, meek and mild" she thought the 3rd line went, "Pity mice implicitly" instead of the actual "Pity my simplicity"! (You must remember that children's spoken vocabulary was much more sophisticated in those days!)

Sylvia

I remember being rather confused at the lyric in the popular Christmas carol that went 'Dawn we now our day of peril, fa la la, la la la, la la la'. I couldn't figure out why we were so happy about a day of peril, but hey. Christmas is weird.

Dr. Nightshade

"God be with you 'til we meet again, with his sheets securely fold you....." That's what I sang until I graduated to senior choir, which marked the demise of my belief in a heaven fitted with carved cedar doors where all slept safe, tucked into fresh, white sheets.

Cynde Roberts