When I first got The Beatles' Abbey Road album, I heard the line "Sleeps in a hole in the road" in Mean Mr. Mustard as "Sheeps in a Hollywood toad"
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- the beatles song 'mean mr mustard' says "shes a real go-getter", i was sure it was "shes a real coconut"...— sally
- My mom used to tell me if I ate mustard I would grow mustard.Anon
- When I was a kid I heard that the Beatles did acid and I wondered if they melted from it.Anon
- I used to believe the "Yield" from the road sign was somebody's name.— julia
- I used to call the shoulder of the road, the elbow.Anon
- My mum used to tell me that someone was delivering bricks at the top of our road when it thundered!— Deb