Sounds of the Season - Part the First
So The Boy is ramping up for the elementary Christmas pageant at school, which means he's occasionally bursting into song.
Yesterday as I was fixing his lunch I was treated to this gem:
"DECK THE HALLS WITH ALL MY MONEY, FALALALALA, LALALA LA!"
"Son, what are you singing?"
"It's for our Christmas thing."
"Oh, you're doing 'Deck the Halls' as part of your performance?"
"Yep."
"I think the words are a bit different, son. It's not 'deck the halls with all my money.'"
"Yes it is!"
"No, it's 'deck the halls with boughs of holly.'"
"What's a bough of holly?"
"It's basically a branch of a kind of tree."
"I thought they were saying 'all my money.'"
"Well, that's because you'd never heard the other phrase before, so it didn't make sense."
"I like mine better."
"It's probably more appropriate nowadays, that's for sure."
Yesterday as I was fixing his lunch I was treated to this gem:
"DECK THE HALLS WITH ALL MY MONEY, FALALALALA, LALALA LA!"
"Son, what are you singing?"
"It's for our Christmas thing."
"Oh, you're doing 'Deck the Halls' as part of your performance?"
"Yep."
"I think the words are a bit different, son. It's not 'deck the halls with all my money.'"
"Yes it is!"
"No, it's 'deck the halls with boughs of holly.'"
"What's a bough of holly?"
"It's basically a branch of a kind of tree."
"I thought they were saying 'all my money.'"
"Well, that's because you'd never heard the other phrase before, so it didn't make sense."
"I like mine better."
"It's probably more appropriate nowadays, that's for sure."
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"Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
"Walla Walla Wash. and Kalamazoo,
"Nora's freezin' on the trolley,
"Something, something, something and hulligaroo.
(As I recall)
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