Our class sang "My country, 'tis of thee" every day in second grade, and I thought the last two lines went "from every mountaintop, every domray". For a good while I wondered what a domray was, until I finally figured out it was 'let freedom ring'
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- Until about age 9, I thought there was a country called "Operaland" where everyone sang instead of talking.Anon
- I used to think that birds sang in different languages depending on the country they were in!— Sarah
- From a TV news program about freedom fighters, I though that `Gorrillas` could use guns.— adrian
- Billy Squire sang about "My Kind of Lover". My wife sang about "My Candelabra"— Wailerman
- When I was younger I thought that the jets that leave lines in the sky were rockets — Harry
- I always thought the connectors on the telephone lines were flying turtles.— Angie B