One of our neighbor kids was learning songs in first grade. I over heard her singing "Land where the pigeons flied ..... from every mountain slide, let freedom ring." Somehow, her version makes more sense today.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- When I was a kid, I thought the musical Mamma Mia did songs from the A*Teens (the teenage version of Abba)Anon
- I thought the lines in the sky left behind by airplanes were "sky scrapers". Makes sense.Anon
- I thought a major general is more powerful than just a general (which still kind of makes sense to me)— Demond
- From a TV news program about freedom fighters, I though that `Gorrillas` could use guns.— adrian
- I used to believe that sparrows were baby pigeons— greenpolyester
- I thought that sparrows were young pigeons.— Daniel