My husband thought the Pat Benetar song "Hell Is For Children" said "Be a good little boy and you'll get a new toy, now grab all your crap off the swing!" It really says "tell grandma you fell off the swing". I guess he thought the person in the song was really anal retentive about the cleanliness of the playground!
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I used to think that swing music was called that because you listened to it when playing on the swing set.Anon
- --I thought if I swung hard enough in my swing i could possibly reach an airplane
— dusty chenille - I used to think that if I was swinging on a swing fast enough, I could jump off it and start flying.— Nick
- I used to think that you would get arrested if you didn't swing your arms when you walked in publicAnon
- that if i swang high enough on the swing set at my grandmothers house...i could catch a cloud for her.— nicole
- i, too, thought my grandma made up the bushel and a peck song. :)— nessa