There's a song, a hymn, called "There is a Balm in Gilead". I used to think it said "There is a Bomb in Gilead". And I would picture an unexploded bomb, half buried in the dirt, waiting to accidently go off! I wanted nothing to do with Gilead!
A childhood belief about hymns
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that an atom bomb was a dragon in the sky.— Mazzkitten
- I thought the cremations were for people that wanted their love ones buried at home.— Helen
- a friend thought that the song "dirty deeds done dirt cheap" was saying "dirty deeds dunderchief"— dubs
- I used to believe that your belly button was what held your top half to your bottom half...— Debelouwho
- i used to think the "Smack my Bitch Up" song by Prodigy was "Snap my picture"..like Snap my pic-cha!
Anon - I used to believe God had a pet tortoise. There was a hymn we sang that went "Great things he hath taught us"— Lozza