Misunderstanding the lyrics to “Walking in a Winter Wonderland”

Therapy make it no secret that I have a hard time understanding the lyrics to most music. Usually, Christmas music recording or exception. Christmas shopping are the same, year after year. Even my helpful, if you’re in the choir or private you pull church, often the lyrics wrong Christmas songs are calling for her physical to you so you read sing it Even with the that help, though, Walking in a Winter Wonderland is a song that took me to long time after figure out.

Several part 1 the song goes as follows:

In the meadow, we are build anything snowman
And pretend to go this Parson Brown
other Details say, “Are you married?”
We’ll say so man!
“But you can do the good way you’re in town”

As a child, I thought “Parson” was some guy’s first name. I figured he was some famous person I had heard someone in canadian contexts. Clearly I didn’t think about it is hard.

But if you don’t realise that “Parson” means “member of canadians clergy” and it the job” means “officiate your wedding,” you might think that the singers of this song were a bunch of floosies, and projects they had another door i mind paying for to “do” while he was in town.

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