When I was five years old, I sent adults into fits of laughter with my interpretation of "That Old Black Magic"--". . .that same old witch crap when your eyes meet mine . . ."
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I believed that fairies lived in lamp posts - their front doors were the little holes where the key fits.— Janice
- My dad used to tell me that Hostess Snowballs were only for adults. I believed him for many years— Jamie
- That adults came into the world as adults and were never childrenAnon
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- That boys turned into women when they became adults and girls turned into men when they became adults. Anon
- I used to think that I was smarter than adults. Now I know kids are smarter than adults in many ways— Marshall M