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?
A childhood belief about hymns
others believed things like this
- I thought I would fall through the cracks in my grandmother's deck.— Hannah
- I similarly thought that "Proud Mary" included the lyrics "pumped a lot of tanks down in New Orleans."— Larry
- when I was about six I remember asking an Adult what Mary did before she was a statue....Anon
- I used to think virgin mary was actually 'virginia mary'Anon
- I believed that Jesus Christ was the son of the Christ family, i.e., Mary and Joseph Christ.— David Araújo
- I thought "Virgin Mary" was actually "Verge 'n Mary" and that Verge was a nickname for Joseph. — Rachel