In Girl Guides (Brownies mainly), we also sang this song...and I thought we were singing "I'm being eaten by a broken sticker" and I never understood why...A few years later I mentioned it to my mother who had been a leader and she said it was really "I'm being eaten by a BOA CONSTRICTOR"...Makes so much more sense now.......
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- My dad once told me that every potato we had ever eaten was grown in his ear.— Shirley B.
- Once my brother said me, the poppy seed in fact is ant. I have not eaten poppy seed for many years.
Anon - I thought the lines in the sky left behind by airplanes were "sky scrapers". Makes sense.Anon
- When Madonna sang "let the choir sing" in "Like a Prayer", I thought she was singing "love by proxy"— Kristen
- When I was younger, I saw Madonna's video for "Material Girl". I thought she was singing "I'm a Cheerio Girl"!— Greg
- I thought a major general is more powerful than just a general (which still kind of makes sense to me)— Demond