I thought for years that the line "four calling birds" in The Twelve Days of Christmas was really "four collie birds." I used to picture a bunch of little winged collie dogs flying around.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- When I was eight, I thought my dad could translate what the birds were saying. I have no idea why.Anon
- I thought birds grew from bird seed. — Jen
- When I was little, I thought that birds feathers were made out of twigs and cat hairs.— Lily
- at the age of seventeen my sister thought another name for a pigeon hole was a birds nest.— Sophie
- i thought "two pence a bag" from feed the birds from mary poppins was "toppins of ag"Anon
- i used to think flies were little birds!— unforgiv3n