When my class would sing America, the Beautiful I would always burst out in tears when I had to sing the part "land where my father dies" I thought it was ONE father and that it was MY father...not our forefathers
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- When i was child, i used to think my father was my father christmas.— BeB's
- My sister used to sing Kylie's "cheese on my pillow", somehow tears works better.— Tom
- Did anyone else sing "Hark, the hairy angels sing"?— Jill
- My mum said that when I used to sing "noahs arc" at school I would sing "who built the arc, no one, no one"— Clare
- at four, I thought my mother was female and me and my father were fee's Anon
- Since my father had a deep cleft in his chin, I thought he was growing a tiny buttocks out of his face.— Rick