My grandma used to hold me on her lap and sing the "I love you! A bushel and a peck..." song. I was an adult before I knew that it was from the musical GUYS AND DOLLS, and that my grandma didn't write it. My little brother and I were both pretty sad that she didn't make up that song for us--we assumed she had...
A childhood belief about songs

others believed things like this
- i, too, thought my grandma made up the bushel and a peck song. :)— nessa
- I believed that dolls could feel when I didn't love them, that's why I treated them well.Anon
- I used to believe that My grandparents didn't have any other name except grandma and grandpa.— Emelia
- in the song "show me heaven" i used to sing "make me breakfast" instead of "leave me breathless"Anon
- I used to believe that the B-52's song "Love Shack" was actually "Love Shark!"— Natalie
- I used to think the song "love the one you're with" was called "love the one, your win. — Glowworm