The 1% Club Proved Me Wrong

[barry1010]

I know, you're not surprised, but all these years I've been singing

We wish you a merry Christmas to you and your king

😳

[catswhiskas]

There is a hymn ,the verse is 'Christ the mighty captain,leads against the foe'... when I was a child I thought, he leant against the phone

[bhg481]

At my CofE Primary School I learnt Psalm 23. I could never understand "My head thou dust with oil and oint". Dusting someone's head with oil seemed a very odd thing to do and what on earth is Oint?

As a northerner I'm always amused when people sing "On Ilkley Moor by tat". Do they not wonder what it means?

[sandyRoe]

Hatless?

[bhg481]

sandy - yes, Baht 'at ie, without a hat.

[ichkeria]

The actual lyric is "glad tidings we bring ..." so  rhyming "king" seems a reasonable assumption 

[barry1010]

Agreed, ich. 

 

[bhg481]

If you Google  the lyrics, "Good tidings we bring to you and your kin" is one line ie, it's not two lines with a break after "Bring", so no place for a rhyme.

[Jarg]

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The 'Trucks' don't work

 

They just make you burp.

[Mim66]

To you and your kin... Lol

[jourdain2]

When I was small I was convinced that in the hymn 'Oh, Jesus I have promised to serve thee to the end', the next line was 'My hopes to follow Julie, my master and my friend'.

I was very confused about that for years and now that one of our Churchwardens is a lady called 'Julie'........... 

[jno]

and why would a green hill want a city wall anyway?

[Canary42]

LOL jno.  Perhaps '[Green hill] without a city wall" means it's outside the city wall (I think).

[douglas9401]

One should bear in mind that convoluted rhymes are written for self satisfaction or maximum smugness.

[jno]

Canary, yes, it'll be "without" as the opposite of "within" but I didn't know that at the time