My granparents used to play this Burl Ives tape of children's songs. One of my favorites was "The Donut Song" (watch the donut, not the hole...) I thought Burl was saying "knot" instead of "not". I imagined this little doughnut-person tying knots in a string to cover a hole in the sidewalk.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I used to believe if you planted donut crumbs in the ground, you could grow a donut tree.Anon
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- My parents used to have an old radio. I thought it could only play old songs, like from when they were young.— kathy
- I had a little hole in the wall under my bed when I was little and I thought that Fraggles lived in there.....— Tina
- at the age of seventeen my sister thought another name for a pigeon hole was a birds nest.— Sophie
- I used to believe that a person could fix ANYTHING with Scotch tape.— Felix