My boyfriend told me when he was younger, he was listening to "Lucy in the sky with diamonds" with another child. The line that says "the girl with kaleidoscope eyes" played, and my boyfriend sang it right but his playmate said "The girl with colitis goes by." I laughed for an hour or so.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I thought that the line was "Lucy in the Sky with Linus" (not lucy in the sky with diamonds)— Forrest
- That Madonna sang "I'm a cheerio girl" instead of material girl— HN
- When I was younger, I saw Madonna's video for "Material Girl". I thought she was singing "I'm a Cheerio Girl"!— Greg
- my boyfriend used to think that Hanna and Barbera were two women that did all the cartoons— Helen
- I convinced my boyfriend that paprika flavored crisps were made from donkeys...he was 20 at the time.Anon
- I used to believe that the words to Michael Jacksons "Liberian Girl" were "librarian girl".— Paul