When I was a child, the song "The First Noel" had me thinking that the word "certain" could be a verb. The line "The first Noel the angels did say was to certain poor shepherds in fields where they lay" meant to me that the poor shepherds were uncertain about something, so the angels came to "certain" them, that is, to make them certain.
A childhood belief about hymns
others believed things like this
- I always wondered why shepherds washed their socks by night. (correct lyric: watched their flocks)— MaggieNJ
- I used to believe that the TV could see me back. Noel Edmunds told me so.— Ringo
- I believed Noel Edmonds real name was 'Mole' Edmonds— abi
- I was told as a child that the sound of thunder was from angels bowling in the clouds.— Patty, NY
- I used to believe that angels painted the sky.— Jessica
- My grandmother used to tell me that thunder was the angels bowling.— laf