When I was little I misheard song lyrics a lot. I figured it was just me--until I discovered Walt Kelly's Pogo, a comic strip set in Okeefenokee Swamp. All the swamp critters sing this carol each Christmas:

(Well, that was from memory, I didn't look it up. But I think it's close.)

Anyway, after reading that I didn't worry about my little inaccuracies. But it was years later, after such creative mis-hearings had been dubbed mondegreens by columnist Jon Carroll, that I recognized this as an art form. One night I even dreamed I wandered my house singing this garbled carol. But it was still many years before it occurred to me to draw how I sang God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen.

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