Mondagreens

This is one of those times where I reveal one of the darker parts of myself. My sense of humor is a bit twisted. One of my favorite examples of this is my overly enthusiastic love of mondagreens. If you don't think you have ever heard of mondagreens, you have. They are those lyrics we sing that are completely wrong and make other people nearly wet their pants as they laugh their heads off at us. I especially enjoy Christmas mondagreens. The first time I realized I had a weakness in this area was when I was in the car with a friend and her four-year-old daughter. This angelic little girl decided to serenade us with one of her favorite Christmas ditties, Silent Night. As she stared to heaven with her innocent blue eyes and an obvious love for Jesus in her heart, she sang these words:

Silent Night, Holy Night,
All is right.....
....all is wrong.

I was so glad I wasn't driving because I might have driven the car over a curb. She was so sincere and what she sang was so goofy I couldn't believe it! Sweet thing. This same girl is now a young woman attending a Christian University as we speak and hopes to be a foreign missionary after she graduates. Gotta love that!

Anyway, once Gore gave us the internet, I was able to do a little sleuthing about my wierd enjoyment of misheard lyrics. The website where I often check out those urban myth emails (you know, send this to 10 people and Bill Gates will personally give you a laptop) is called snopes.com. They have amassed a collection of holiday mondagreens that get me downright giddy about Christmas.

Here's my favorite mondagreen from that site, feel free to sing along:

Joy to the world,
the Lord has gum.

GUM!!

I had to stop after I typed that to laugh my head off. I've got an image in my head of that portrait of Jesus we all have seen- the one where he has the long hair and is holding a lamb- and he's chomping away at some Bubble Yum! I know, I'm wierd!

OH! I really love this one, to the tune of Deck the Halls:

Deck the halls with Buddy Holly,
fa la la la la, la la la la...

If you love these, too, check out the snopes website. Be warned, there are a couple of words that were misheard as curse words.

link: Mondagreens at Snopes.com