My son was singing along with Kenny Rogers and sang, "You left me with 400 kids and a crop in the ground." The real lyrics are, "4 hungry kids and a crop in the ground". He is now 40 and we still laugh about it.
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 thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- I thought cartoons were for kids and "real-life programs" for adults.— Ichigo
- I used to believe that went the sun went down, it went down into the ground over in China.— Danielle, AL
- i used to believe that planes did not fly the ground just moved.— bob the pinecreek