We were in the car on the way to my daughter’s flute lesson. The sunroof was open to the balmy, lovely sky. Music played on the radio and we sang along to Jason Mraz’s I’m Yours.
Daughter: “…listen to the music of the Mormon people dance and sing. We’re just one big family…”
Me: What did you just say?
D: What?
M: Did you say “Mormon people”?
D: Um, yeah. Those are the words, Mom.
M: (chuckling) Really? So is he telling people to listen to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir? Or David Archuleta? What music of the Mormon people do you think he’s talking about?
D: (laughing) I know, right? I just think it’s cool.
M: Honey, I don’t think that’s what he’s saying.
D: Really? Oh, that’s sad. And embarrassing.
M: I’ve got your back.
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Some song misunderstandings are even more embarrassing. My sister-in-law was sitting in primary with her son one week, helping out for the day. It was singing time and the leader asked the kids for their favorite song. Her six-year-old son shot his hand in the air and he got called on.
“J, what’s your favorite primary song?”
“Roxanne,” he said with enthusiasm but kind of quietly.
“What song? I couldn’t hear you.”
“Roxanne,” he said loudly, singing the two notes of the Police song as he said it.
“Oh, I don’t think I know that one.” Which, I’m sure, is how the primary escaped a close call of having to sing the words “you don’t have to put on the red light” and other loaded lyrics.
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Can anyone else remember being perplexed by the As I Have Loved You lyrics? “By this shallmenno, ye are my disciples” sounded like I was supposed to be very near a shallmenno but what and where was it?
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Have you ever misheard/misunderstood hymns or song lyrics?
Do share…
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