Cross-Eyed Bear?

I’m appalled! I was on Google today trying to find the lyrics to “Gladly the Cross I’d Bear” and you know what I found? Google results were absolutely cluttered with sites on “mondegreens,” “homonyms,” “malapropisms,” and “misheard lyrics,” all of them saying how that one line in the hymn was heard to say, “Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear.”

Have we all gone mad? Is there not even one serious lyrics site that has posted the words to this hymn? I certainly couldn’t find any.