i thought that in the song "holly jolly christmas" by burl ives, the line "oh, ho, the mistletoe, hung where you can see." was really... "oh, ho, the mistletoe, hum where you can sing."
why would you hum where you could sing?
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- "Christmas time
mistletoe and brine..."— Santa Puncher - When my dad was little he thought that mistletoe was some kind of aircraft.— xoxo
- Did anyone else sing "Hark, the hairy angels sing"?— Jill
- My mum said that when I used to sing "noahs arc" at school I would sing "who built the arc, no one, no one"— Clare
- I thought that singer/songwriter was spelled this way: sing-a-song-writer...Anon
- When I was little I thought that Buddy Holly was called Bloody Holly!— Catherine