When I was about 4, "Lucille" by Kenny Rogers was popular. Instead of "four hungry children, crops in the field", I sang it as "four hundred children crapping in the field".
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I used to think Kenny Rogers had 400 children and a crop in the field. Rather than 4 hungry children.Anon
- I was convinced that children weren't humans, only adults were, children were a total different race!— Leda
- My daddy used to think that there was a children-police that killed children who was bad— jonnie
- That numbers went 1-99 the A hundred, a hundred and one til a hundred and ninety nine. Then ONE hundred...— Foolhardy
- I used to think that only grown ups were "people".Children to me were no people ,they were just children.— Minny
- I used to believe that children stayed little.— Mel91