Ah, we like cheese...

I make no secret of the fact that I am not the type of person that knows titles of songs and who sings them. Nor am I great at knowing lyrics. Apparently when words have music behind them, I have a hard time understanding them. I like music, a lot, but this just isn't a gift I have. Usually, this just doesn't come up very often. I try not to sing along when other people are around unless I KNOW the words.

One occasion where this came out, I actually that I asked, because I honestly didn't know: Last Christmas season, I was probably scrapbooking and listening to my Christmas cds. I have a collection of 3 disks that has everything you can think of, and then about 30 more songs. Some, I had NEVER heard of. One of these songs, I could not figure out for the life of me. What on earth does "we like cheese" have to do with Christmas??? So, I braved the laughter and torment and asked my wonderful and very knowledgeable husband.....Whats this song? I believe the answer was a strange look and then "Huh?" So I explained...I have always thought they are singing "we like cheese." Laughter ensued. Ok, at least he didn't know the answer either. So I consulted the cd insert (no, I hadn't in the 5+ years I've owned the cd), only to learn that the song is "All we, like sheep" from Handel's "Messiah." I have never heard it other than this one disk. I'm not sure if it is just this arrangement or this choir singing it, but it really does sound like "we like cheese." Maybe I should send in the recommendation for a cheese commercial.

On a similar note...have you heard people sing "deck the halls with balls of holly" rather than boughs of holly...yeah, i DO have that one right.

Merry Christmas!