Until I was about 21, when the penny dropped, I used to think that the song lyrics "One man went to mow, went to mow a meadow", was about a bloke and his dog who went to a place called "Mow-a-Meadow".
Well my parents didn't have a lawn... :)
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I heard the song about Heaven being a place where nothing ever happened and thought, "What a boring place."Anon
- I used to believe the show Law and Order was a gardening show called Lawn and Order.— Adriana
- in the song with the lyrics "take your passion" my sister used to always think it was "take your pants off"— Steped
- My mum always thought the lyrics to macy grays song was i try to say goodbye to my chook.— alana
- I used to think there was a place called Caucasia and everyone from there was Caucasian.— Lucy
- i believed that michelle gayle's sweetness song contained the lyrics shade in sheep shit!— andrew