Sorry for the length of this post. For a little background, I have only heard this song over the last couple of years, after discovering Pentatonix (well worth a listen!), so not something sung wrong from childhood.
White Winter Hymnal (sorry can't post a link from my work computer, but on YouTube Music,) I am going to post the lyrics I have been singing for this, and then the proper ones. Which do you prefer?
I was following the packhorse
Following the goats
With scarves of red tied round their throats
To keep their little heads
From falling in the snow
And I turned round and there you go
A metal UFO
And all the lights turned red
Like strawberries in the summertime.
I was following the pack
All swallowed in the coats
With scarves of red tied round their throats
To keep their little heads
From falling in the snow
And I turned round and there you go
And Michael you would fall
And turn the white snow red
Like strawberries in the summertime.
In my defense, I am moderately to severely deaf, especially in one side, but still. The only reason I can now sing it properly, is that YouTube Music have a lyrics tab underneath the video!
So which is better? I like the image of goats in scarves, but think that they would probably eat them.
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I like yours. Goats in red scarves, what could be cuter? 
I still think my alternative lyrics to The Stranglers’ Golden Brown trump theirs.
I only found out a few years ago that they sing Lay me down, through my mind she runs, which is a bit boring compared to my Lay me down with my mancheros. It never crossed my mind to wonder what a manchero was, but it sounds pretty darned exotic.
When my daughter was young she always used to sing ' Ruby don't take your gloves to town' we didn't enlighten her 
I just love that, sodapop.
maggiemaybe I thought it was mancheros too! I somehow imagined they were a crisp-like cheese snack
I used to think the Paul Young song 'Every time you go away" ( you take a piece of me with you) Was you take a piece of meat with you!
We played a lot of Bob Marley in the car when one of our sons was very young. His song which went "stand up for your rights, don't give up the fight" was interpreted by my 3 year old as "stand up for your rights, don't get off your bike"
I just love misheard lyrics, so funny, we've all been there
Yep Another mancheros here. I thought it was an exotic cheese.
When DS was little he always sang Dire Straights' "Money for nothing and your chicks for free" as "money for nothing and your chips for free"!
There is a Michael Jackson song with the lyrics
'Hold me, like the river Jordan, I will then say to thee, you are my friend.
My girl was singing 'hold me, like the river Jordan, you are a centipede, and I am your friend'
So that's what he's singing! I always sang onomatopoeia too. 
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