Christmas is just eight days away. According to one of the songs we are hearing this month, "it's the season to be jolly." I don't agree with what being jolly means to some people, but it is a time for good cheer, happiness and laughter. In light of that, here are a few things to add a pinch of jolly laughter to your day.
One of the songs often heard this time of year is Winter Wonderland. I have heard that song all my life and misunderstood some of the words until yesterday. The second verse begins with, "Later on we'll conspire as we dream by the fire." I always thought it was, "later on we'll perspire as we sit by the fire." It took 78 trips around the sun for me to catch that one!
My nieces' daughter was walking in the city looking at Christmas displays and saw a reindeer. It did not have a red nose. She said, "That's not Rudolph so it must be Olive." Olive? She thought the song said, "Olive, the other reindeer."
My sister was in her forties when she got it that another song says "Ah, believer," instead of "ah de liebe." She thought it didn't make sense to stick a PA Dutch word in there but that's what she thought she heard.
When our son Dale was a preschooler he thought people were making fun of him when they sang, "in excelsis deo." He thought it was "in eggshells is Dale."
Our granddaughter sang Joy to the World, but in her version the words were "and heaven and manger scene."
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