It's a generational thing. The singer forgot the lyrics during the recording process, so he fudged them. Which led some Harvard students, after repeated listenings, to conclude that the lyrics referred to a human activity you couldn't describe on the radio in those days (1962). Which made it a big hit, particularly with frat houses. Or so the story goes.
In the movie for Peter Pan, it's Never Land. In the play, it was originally "Peter's Never Never Never Land" which became "Never Never Land." I'm pretty sure most of us are more familiar with the movie (or Jake and the Never Land Pirates).
When I saw "Never Never Land" I immediately was thinking about "Enter Sandman" by Metallica.
Surprised no one has said anything about "mirror mirror" and "pom pom" - both variations of the originals. (The original quote from Snow White was "magic mirror on the wall..." and the original French for those things cheerleaders shake (well, one of the things) was "pompon" rather than pompom.) Of course, both of those variations have become so deeply entrenched in everyday language that they're widely accepted nowadays, with most folks not knowing they differ from the originals.
I don't think the Disney version was the 'original' quote by some hundred years or more. It's from Grimms Märchen from the early 1800s, and they only 'collected' it from folklore. Even this may not be original but it still contains the repetition of the little mirror. "Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand, wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?"
The fad where the line from Disney's version of the story was regarded as a "Mandela Effect" frustrated me to no end. As if no one ever had the story read to them as a kid with the quote as "Mirror, mirror, on the wall..." Pop culture gaslighting itself?
In the forests of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Can frame thy fearful symmetry...
My mom used to read this to me, because of my zodiac sign (Tiger, of course!) It's by William Blake.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?
Know it off by heart!!!!!!
When I saw "Never Never Land" I immediately was thinking about "Enter Sandman" by Metallica.
The "Mirror Mirror" answer made me think about the song "Mirror Mirror" by Blind Guardian...