When I was a kid I used to love Kenny Rogers.One song in particular, I think it was "Lucille," had the line "You left me with 4 hungry children and a crop in the field." For years I was sure he was saying, "You left me with 4 HUNDRED children and a crop in the field."
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I used to think Kenny Rogers had 400 children and a crop in the field. Rather than 4 hungry children.Anon
- I was convinced that children weren't humans, only adults were, children were a total different race!— Leda
- My daddy used to think that there was a children-police that killed children who was bad— jonnie
- That numbers went 1-99 the A hundred, a hundred and one til a hundred and ninety nine. Then ONE hundred...— Foolhardy
- I used to think that only grown ups were "people".Children to me were no people ,they were just children.— Minny
- I used to believe that the B-52's song "Love Shack" was actually "Love Shark!"— Natalie