Handel's "Messiah" includes "For we, like sheep, have gone astray". But Handel, a German, was a bit rough on his english phrasing, so the main line comes out as "For we LIKE sheep", which puzzled our Sunday School choir - we had nothing against sheep mind you, but few Australians would choose them as special mates. A couple of us decided on our own slant, incurring strife for singing, "For we like sheep, but I prefer dogs -..... etc". "But Sir, we were in tune and everything!"
A childhood belief about hymns
others believed things like this
- I use to think sheep shrank when it rained.Anon
- sheep were wooly pigs— CJ
- I used to believe that humans were a subspecies of sheep.Anon
- I used to believe that when sheep had their wool sheered off, they became lambds again.— Janet
- I used to believe that when sheep die, god takes their wool and makes it into clouds— Oded
- As a young child I thought that sheep and poodles were the same animal.— Jane