I thought the first line to the Starspangled Banner was "Oh say can you see
By the donzer lee light?"
I figured a donzer was a lamp or something.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- We had an antique lamp that I thought was hideous and for years I thought "Art Deco" was a synonym for ugly.Anon
- I believed that fairies lived in lamp posts - their front doors were the little holes where the key fits.— Janice
- I used to believe that a "punch line" meant a line of people waiting to dip punch from a punch bowl.— Sheila
- When I was in kindergarten, I thought the last line of "America" was "Great God our kid." — CC
- In "God Bless America" I thought it was "With the light from a bulb" instead of "from above."— Carol
- When i was little i always thought there were little men inside the traffic lights changing the light— Kiley