It wasn't but a couple of years ago, when looking for a song that had been one of my husband's favourites from back in the 60's, called: "Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)" by Melanie Safka, that I admitted to him that I had always thought they were saying "Get your white butts right up, and the ones who stand around" instead of -- "Let your white birds smile up, at the ones who stand and frown." He says I have forever ruined the song for him, although I still think it's funny as all get out! <giggle>
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- Remember the old Tubes song "White Punks on Dope". Thought they were singing "White Folks are Dumb"
— WailerMan - I used to think that the song "Just like white winged dove" by Stevie Nicks was "Just like the white window" — Julia
- I used to think that adam and the ants' stand and deliver was 'stand in your liver'.....— wook
- I believed that the breed of dog called Boxer was called that because they could stand up and box.Anon
- when i was young i thought god was a cloud, big white fluffy cloud floating around with 2 eyes and a smile. — kerrie
- When I was little *I thought that if I dressed in all white I would become invisible.Sadly,I wasn't.XP— Kiki