6 geezers laying? Holidays bring on song botches
Milk and spiders? Nine lazy Hansons? Sleep in heavenly peas?
It’s that time of year: holiday music time. And with holiday music comes all the strange and twisted things we sometimes think we’re hearing.
Mondegreens, the moniker for misheard words in song, aren’t restricted to holiday standards, of course, but the old-timey language of some seems to serve as a botched-lyric magnet.