Singing along with Kenny Rodgers' "Lucille", I sang "400 children and a crop in the field". After Mom stopped laughing, she said "No wonder she left!".
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I used to think Kenny Rogers had 400 children and a crop in the field. Rather than 4 hungry children.Anon
- When Madonna sang "let the choir sing" in "Like a Prayer", I thought she was singing "love by proxy"— Kristen
- Billy Squire sang about "My Kind of Lover". My wife sang about "My Candelabra"— Wailerman
- I was convinced that children weren't humans, only adults were, children were a total different race!— Leda
- My daddy used to think that there was a children-police that killed children who was bad— jonnie
- I used to think that only grown ups were "people".Children to me were no people ,they were just children.— Minny