Don Henley sings "After the boys of summer have gone". I used to think it was "After the poisoned summer had gone".
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I used to think the lyrics of "Boys of Summer" said "poison summer"— Lindsay
- the summer that I turned 11 I waited out side on the step all summer for my hogwarts letter... ;D — Ginny weasley... not really
- I used to think if you caught a cold during summer, it was called a "hot".— Brandon Campbell
- I used to think it was illegal to drink hot chocolate in the summer. — Samantha
- I thought that Indian Summer was like the weather in India.Anon
- I used to believe that at the beach town where we spent the summer, they took the sidewalks in for the winter.— Missy