People still erroneously believe that the Beatles have a song about a 'paperback writer', when clearly it's about a paper bag writer as I have known since the age of four.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- cause i'm just a paper bag rider....
or it might have been paperback writer by the beatles....Anon - I thought that singer/songwriter was spelled this way: sing-a-song-writer...Anon
- The Beatles song "Ticket to Ride" always came out "She's got a tick in her eye."— Kurt
- the beatles song 'mean mr mustard' says "shes a real go-getter", i was sure it was "shes a real coconut"...— sally
- I used to believe that house fires were caused by foolish people who put paper on the stove.— C.C.
- When I was little, I thought the Beatles really were bugs.— Spongekid