Whe I was a kid, we would sing this one song, "Gladly The Cross I'd Bare." I always thought of it as, and even when I was older and knew better, as an inside joke, "Gladdy The Cross-Eyed Bear." I always pictured a cross-eyed bear romping around, as in a comic. I still get a laugh when I think of it.
A childhood belief about hymns
others believed things like this
- When I was younger, I believed that squinting in a storm would make you cross-eyed... forever.Anon
- I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim
- when I saw a sign with a deer on it I always thought deer had to cross the street by it. like a cross walk— only me
- When I was little I though "A Cross" was a mud/tar pit and that Jesus drowned.— Usagi Ohkami
- If you cross your eyes, they will get stuck like that.Anon
- I used to believe Nuns are a third gender, a cross between men and women:)Anon