I though the lyrics to Paul Simon's Call Me Al went:
I can call you baby,
Ready when you call me
You can call me out.
In stead of:
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
It seemed to make sense at the time!
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that an oncologist was an "on-call-ogist"Anon
- I used to call the shoulder of the road, the elbow.Anon
- I used to call the rays of light from the sun "sun BEANS". That's what it sounded like to me.Anon
- i used to think that the word 'clothes' was the plural for 'clo.' so i'd call a sock or a shirt a clo. — jessimocha
- My mother used to call my behind "a paw paw" and for many years I refused to eat paw paws (papayas)— Garth
- I always wanted to use the telephone to call Jesus, Santa and Superman— Alex Burghart