Do you hear what I hear?

Pam and I grew up competing on the swim team. We started as Guppies. Then we continued to swim through high school. I don't ever remember having to fund-raise. I don't really know if it's because we didn't have to or what. When I started teaching and was the FBLA adviser, that was always the part I dreaded. Now, it seems like everyone is having to fund-raise for their teams, school, and extra-curricular activities. I am dreading doing that with our kids! As a result, I am a sucker for the kids, especially the kids on our block, that come knocking on our door selling magazines, books, apples, Buck cards, whatever. I most recently was a victim of the dance team and I ordered a magazine full of ads. However, there was one little article that I got a kick out of and one website that gave us a great idea for work. The article was a list of often flubbed Christmas carols. Whether these songs are flubbed because of too much holiday bubbly or poor hearing is a mystery but I thought I'd share my favorites. These misheard lyrics are a "mondegreen" (you can read about it on Wikipedia). See if you can recognize the songs:

• Please bring us some friggin' pudding - Please bring us a figgy pudding
• Sleep in heavenly peas - Sleep in heavenly peace
• Olive, the other reindeer - All of the other reindeer
• In the meadow we can build a snowman, and pretend that he is sparce and brown - In the meadow we can build a snowman, and pretend that he is Parson Brown
• Oh, come, hoggy faithful - Oh, come, all ye faithful
• Police have my dad - Feliz Navidad
• While shepherds washed their socks by night - While shepherds watch'd their flocks by night

I am sitting here wracking my brain trying to think of some mondegreens that our kids have come up with and am coming up blank. Not even Christmas ones, just any. I wish I had written them all down. Short term memory loss!