I used to think that the Queen song contained the line "Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard". After years of singing this I was eventually told that the line is "Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me". Thanks to everyone who didn't tell me!
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- In Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, I used to think they were singing "Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard!"Anon
- My sisters told me, and I still believe, that the 'Hokey Pokey' is the Devil's song.— You shake it all about...
- My mum told me that if you eat while you're on the toilet, you're feeding the devil! — Claire
- Grandmother told me if I whistled in the bathroom the devil would come get me because I was whistling for him.— Peanut @ Lake Tawakoni Tx
- I was told that if you dropped food on the floor, the devil kissed it. — Teresa
- When I was a child my Grandma told me if I threw food on the fire I was feeding the devil— Anthony P.