When I was in elementary school about 45 years ago, the class sang Christmas songs. Being Jewish, I didn't know what these songs were about--I just tried to sing them with the rest of the kids. When they sang, Oh Tannenbaum, I thought everyone was singing about my relatives, the Tenenbaums. When everyone was singing "Hark the Herald Angels Sing," I was really wondering if it was about my Uncle Harold or my Cousin Harold Tenenbaum.
A childhood belief about songs
others believed things like this
- When Madonna sang "let the choir sing" in "Like a Prayer", I thought she was singing "love by proxy"— Kristen
- Did anyone else sing "Hark, the hairy angels sing"?— Jill
- I used to think that church songs were pop music. Well, we did sing them in church every week...— Roxy
- our father which art in heaven,Harold be thy name— oddsox
- My mum said that when I used to sing "noahs arc" at school I would sing "who built the arc, no one, no one"— Clare
- I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K