My teen-aged daughter would sing the lyrics of Shirley Murdocks "As we lay" song...the part goes ...as we slept the night away...She thought she was saying "as we swept the night away" which makes sense only if you are having an affair with a janitor.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- My young daughter thought that night came after the trees ate all the sunlight.— Bruce
- i used to believe you slept for 100 hours every night.— skye-ness
- I used to think teachers lived at school, and slept there at night.— Stephanie
- I thought the lines in the sky left behind by airplanes were "sky scrapers". Makes sense.Anon
- I used to believe that the cows owned by my grandfather slept lying on the ground like a human at night.— Eric
- The song 'there's a bad moon out to night.' i thought they were saying 'there's a bathroom on the right.'— kim in alabama