i was driving with my sister (she was 17, i was 14) while listening to a christmas music station on the radio, and the song "little saint nick" came on. i started singing to the first verse, and so did she, but we sang different words. she was convinced that she was right, but i knew i was, as i had sung the song in choir. we looked up the lyrics online, and i had a good laugh as she told me what she thought everything was.
"there's a tale about christmas that you've all been told" in her mind was "there's a half a dozen reindeer living out in the cold." i explained to her that half a dozen reindeer was six, and santa had eight reindeer, plus rudoplh.
"christmas comes this time each year" was thought to be "christmas comes this tiny cheer." isn't christmas supposed to be a BIG cheer?
and finally, "run run reindeer" was "one red reindeer". i asked her which reindeer was red, and she said they were talking about rudoplh, with his red nose.
can you believe she was 17 at the time?
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I didn't know Reindeer existed, I thought they were just christmas animals for storiesAnon
- I used to believe reindeer made it rain because for many years it rained on christmas eve night.Anon
- For the longest time I thought that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer had a very "chinese" nose...Anon
- I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K
- i used to bielieve if you get hit
in the nose you will turn into
rudolph the rednose reindeer— kurt santana - I believed that Reindeer loved popcorn, and so I would cook a bag and scatter it on the porch.— Popcornsanta