When I was a young boy, my mother would sing the song "My bonnie lies over the ocean, my bonnie lies over the sea, bring back my bonnie to me." Well, I had never heard the word "bonnie" before, and when she sang "bonnie", I heard "body". To this day I have the image of a bloody, decapitated head sitting on a pier waiting for its body to come floating back across the ocean.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I used to think that the song "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" was really "My Body Lies Over the Ocean."Anon
- I thought Bonnie and Clyde were fictional characters.Anon
- i used to believe that the water in the ocean went away a night......then came back in the morning.— Beverly
- I heard a mother in the street tell her young son not to pick his nose...because his head would cave in. — Ruby
- If you had a mouth ulcer it's because you've been telling lies.— David Smithers
- When i was child i used to believe that if you tell lies your nose grows.Anon