The song "dance, dance whereever you may be. I am the lord of the dance said he" I always thought was "i am the lord of the dancing team and I need you all whereever you may be and I need you all on the dancing team" God was a groover!

Disco Queen

I used to think that the three wise men from the song " We three Kings" were from space. In the song the real lyrics go

We three kings of Orient Are
Bearing Gifts, We traveled Afar

But i heard..

We three Kings of Orientar
Bearing Gifts We traveled Afar

i thought that they were the kings of some strange planet call orientar, after all if they came from a different planet they would have traveled afar...

Greetings From Orientar!!

When my brother was young, he used to think that the church chorus, "We Bring the Sacrifice of Praise" was actually "We Bring Sacks of Rice on Trays."

Anon

A line from the a christmas carol verse read 'most highly favoured lady' I used to think said 'most highly flavoured gravy'.

Mudspanker

A few years ago, I heard my dad sing the song "We Three Kings". He made up his own version, it went like this:
We three kings of Butternut Square,
Trying to sell some cheap underwear,
So fantastic; No elastic,
Ninety nine cents a pair ...

I beleived that the song went like that for a long, long time. I always wondered how a song with a tune that solemn could have such funny lyrics.
In fact, there was a time about a year ago when I had a momentary brain fart and had to ask about a Christmas carol ("We Three Kings"). I said to a friend, "Oh yah, that's the one about the underwear, right?" Needless to say I got a very strage look.

Caitlin from Canada

We had a man in our church named Art Jones and he and his family always sat in the pew in front of ours. I always thought it was pretty presumtuous of the church to sing "How Great Thou Art" when they never sang "How Great Thou Doug" to my dad!

Mindy

When I was about 9, Michael Flatley (the Riverdance guy) released the show "Lord of the Dance" and I remember hearing about it. At around the same point in my life, we used to sing the hymn "The Lord of the Dance" at school masses.

So, obviously whenever we sang "dance then, wherever you may be, I am the Lord of the Dance, said he" I used to think that Jesus liked Riverdancing and wanted everyone to Riverdance with him.

Max

One of the hymns we used to sing at church said, "fill the heavens with sweet accord, holy, holy, holy lord." When I was little I didn't know what "accord" was, and this led to some wierd associations in my mind. I knew that the type of jelly my family used in sandwiches was Concord, and that was the only other word I knew that sounded at all similar, so I figured that maybe this was just another way to pronouce it. It made sense to me, so I went along for years believing this hymn wanted God to fill Heaven with grape jelly.

Mandi

I used to believe that Goria en Exelcis Deo (the carol) was actually Gloria in A Shell Station. I was always fairly confused as to why, during Christmas Mass, we sang about my Aunt Gloria getting gas. I would sing the lyrics quite loudly in church.

Mike.

I used to think the words of Silent Night were (instead of "...'round yon Virgin, mother and Child"), "Brown young virgin bothering child."

Kate

Remember the line in "Jesus Loves Me" that goes "little ones to him belong"? I still remember singing (at the top of my lungs) "little monsters him be long" and envisioning the Sesame Street muppets.

Lisa

In our church, there was a hymn called "Onward Christian Soldiers." The next line of the song was "Marching As to War."
My mom loves to tell the story that when I was little I would sing "Onward Christian Soldiers, Marching through the Door." She claims I must have been a pacifist from an early age.

Mary

I grew up in Louisiana...my family watched the NO Saints on TV all the time...and they would play segments of "When the Saints go marching in" when the team took the field.
and then on Sundays we'd sing the same song in church...I could never figure out why they sang about the NO Saints in church.

(now I know it couldn't have hurt...they needed all the help they could get!)

Anon

As a young child I attended church with my parents. We used to sing a song which had the words "Victorious Christ" in. I always wondered why He was Victoria's and not anyone elses. My dad did an amazing job of keeping a straight facee when I asked him!

Numpty Number One!

I remember when I was about 8 I was singing "Deck the Halls" quite loudly at my grandmother's house. I replaced the lyrics "See the blazing yule before us," with "See the grazing mule before us." My family laughed and corrected me, but I assured them that they were wrong. After all, hadn't Mary ridden on a mule to Bethlehem, and, after such a long trip, wouldn't it be hungry?

Jen

When my mother was 4 years old she returned from Sunday School (her first time) to exciedly advice my Nanna that they had sung a song about her favourite food. Nonplussed my Nanna asked her to sing the song, little Grace sang loudly "Cheese is lovely this I know for the Bible tells me so".

Maya

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

sm

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

steve

My husband used to think there was a gospel song called, "Bringing in the sheep" or "Bringing in the sheets". I set him straight after I stopped laughing.

Anon

A friend used to believe that the words to the song "and He shall make us fishers of men", was actually "and He shall make us viscous old men".

Curious why God would want us to grow up to be miserable!

PaulT