Not so much a prayer as a carol, but a friend of mine has a little girl, and, as children are want to do, she has made the best sense of the lyrics of a certain Christmas Carol that she can. The song in question is 'Away in a Manger'. She's got the 'Away in a Manger' part, but then she thinks it goes on:
The Little Malteasers
Lay down on her head...
I just picture them snuggled down behind the ears, you know?
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- My brothers friend still thinks he will be a kangaroo when he grows up and he's 9!!!!!— Jane Rom
- I used to believe that in the Christian Prayer of the Faithful, we were responding, "Lord, harrow prayer."— Smelleanor
- Anytime you had a question (any question at all) you just called the president.— Erin
- I used to believe that the head part of a shirt was a monster and that it would eat you.— Taliyah