"On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
3 french hens,
2 turtle dogs,
and a partridge in a pear tree!"
The moment that the rest of my family figured out I had the words wrong was captured with my Fisher-Price tape recorder. I still have the cassette.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I used to think that partridge in a pear tree was "cartridge" in a pear tree(christmas song)— Erica
- I used to believe that pickles were hot dogs made from turtle meat.— Jerry Moe the Gimp
- I am Canadian and when I was little I would sing "True Pastry Love" instead of 'True Patriot Love"— Jess
- I used to put a camera along my fireplace on Christmas Eve in hopes to tape Santa.Anon
- I used to believe that true love was eternal.— Pierce
- when I was a kid. I used to believe hens had teeth.— lév michot