Two things you probably didn’t know about church songs, or at least wouldn’t know if you listened to most Mormons sing them:
- The end of the chorus of “The Lord Is My Light” is not “He leads me, he leads me along”—there's only one instance of me in that line.
- In the primary song “‘Give,’ Said the Little Stream”, it is not the case that wherever the stream goes “the grass grows greener still”—rather, the fields grow greener.
That last one is so surprising, there’s even been some scholarly research on it—I was at a Deseret Language and Linguistics Society Symposium one year (2000? 2001?—sometime around then) where there was a presentation on that lyric and people’s misperception of it, even when they saw it printed in front of them.
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This reminds me of Cameron singing The Wise Man and the Foolish Man. To him is was always "The rains came down and the FLOWERS came up!" I think he might still accidentally sing it that way sometimes.
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