Real words in "Jesus Loves Me": Little Ones to Him Belong..."
Until I was 15 I thought it was: "Little wants to hear me long"

Krista

My son used to Sing "Grey Sheets the Lord" instead of "Praise ye the Lord"

cyndi

One of my favorite Christmas carols was "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen". There's the line in there that says "and save us all from Satan's powers." I thought it was "and save us all from saltine crackers." I never questioned why saltines were so evil.

Susan C-C.

When I was little, I liked this hymn at church that had the line, "turning his ears always to me", but I thought it was "Turning Ah Zeee", and preceeded to ask my pastor to play to play "Turning Ah Zee, puhlease". I think I've always been a little confused...

Jezarino

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

A few years ago I went carroling with a church group. We were singing "Hark, the Haroled Angels Sing." One line of either the second or third verse goes, "Hail the incarnate deity." When I first heard it, I thought they were saying guillatine instead of deity.
The same day, I found out out I'd been singing "What Child Is This" wrong for years. I always thought the chorus went, "Haste, haste to bring him love." I felt like a goofball when I realized that the correct word was laud instead of love. Really, that's not a word youhear every day.

keyboardplayer

Religion confused me, I used to wonder why a hill would HAVE a wall round it (hymn - there is a green hill far away without a city wall) and why if religion was touting God as a good thing, you would sing about not wanting him (the lord is my shepherd I shall not want).

Lorna

When Christmas came around my family always went to the Carols by Candlelight. My sister when she was eight always used to sing the line from Silent Night "round yon virnigen, mother and child" - we still remind here every year and she still hasn't lived it down as she used to sing at the top of her lungs!

Erin Jones

I don't know if this qualifies as a belief, but when I was real little, we went to a church where they sang out of the old redback hymnal. If you're from the south and you're Baptist, you know what I'm talking about. Well, back then I had an obsession with words, and liked for people to read the dictionary to me. I loved the way certain words sounded, but hated other words. For some reason, I hated words that ended or sounded like they ended with ATION. That's weird, but it sounded ugly to me. I have no clue why.
I would get so irritated in church when we sang songs that had words like that. I didn't like singing those words, and I thought someone should rewrite the songs. When I told my grandmother about it, she sort of chuckled.
Now I love those gospel songs, but every now and then, I think of that, and feel like a goofball. I'm glad nobody remembers that.

keyboardplayer

We sang a hymn/religious song (I think it was more modern than a hymn judging by the informal lyrics) at school with the line "who made Earth and Mars?" This always annoyed me because the Bible says God made Earth, but has no mention of the other planets. I had also learnt from science books that the planets were formed naturally with no influence from God. So whenever we sang the hymn, I wouldn't say the words "and Mars", because I knew God had nothing to do with making it.

HB

Until I was about 3 or 4, I thought the line was, "Jesus loves me, *the sino*, for the bible..."

I kept wondering what a "sino" was.

XiuZan

I used to sing 'I am the Lord of the done seatee' insted of 'I am the lord of the dance said he.'

Because we never had hym books or an overhead projector in infant school, so you had to sort of guess what others were singing!

Anon

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

Mark, Vermont

I always used to think in the Christmas carol "God Bless you and Give you a Happy New Year" they were saying, "And may joy come to you, and to your mimosa, too." I figured this was because grown-ups drank mimosa on Christmas morning, and the song was hoping their mimosa was yummy.

Anon

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

Len

i used to believe that the song "we 3 kings" went like this:
we 3 kings of orient are
1 in a taxi 1 in a car
1 on a scooter blowing his hooter
smoking a big cigar

kitten

As a young woman, I never lived down being heard to sing - as a six-year-old - "Jesus bitches shine".

Jo

I used to believe that we were singing "Rosanna in the highest" in church, instead of "Hosanah" and I wondered for many years why I hadn't heard of Rosanna anywhere else.

David J.

When I was six, I used to think the song "Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly" went "Deck the Halls with Boston Charlie." I still sorta sing it that way to myself, 30 years later!

Kelly

I always wondered what a "sino" was in "Jesus loves me the sino..."

Dan