When I was younger we used to sing the Canadian National Anthem at every school assembly. I proudly sang "with glowing hearts we see thee rise, the True North strong and free", congratulating myself on getting all the words right. However, it wasn't until I was a little older that I realized I had at least one line a little bit wrong. The line was, in fact, "We stand on GUARD for thee", and not "We stand on GOD for thee" as I had been singing my whole life. I just figured we must be a pretty great nation if we came above God in the grand scheme of things.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- i used to always wonder how one national guard could always guard the entire nation.— karen ellis
- I am Canadian and when I was little I would sing "True Pastry Love" instead of 'True Patriot Love"— Jess
- I used to think that adam and the ants' stand and deliver was 'stand in your liver'.....— wook
- if you stand on your nose and sing the blues you wont get hiccups for a month.Anon
- I thought tornados were monsters,and that they called out the national guard to destroy it.— Ben J.Grimm
- when was little i used to believe that if you won the grand national you would become prime ministerAnon