Contaminated Carols

My boys sing Christmas songs wrong. It's not that they don't know the words, they do. But they sing their own versions. I suppose I did the same thing as a kid. I remember singing "Mr. Hooper let a pooper running down his leg" as part of the Jingle Bells verse. My kids sing "Dashing through the snow on a pair of broken skis, o'er the fields we go crashing into trees." Tonight I was singing to my nephew the old favorite Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. My oldest was doing an improv on the echo that went something like "Had a very shiny nose...what a de-fect! And if you ever saw it, you would even say it glows...how awkward!" I guess it's good that I haven't taught them Handel's Messiah.