When I first started school, my class used to sing the hymn 'He's got the whole world in his hands' and I thought the words were 'He's got the whole world, P.E. Sands'. I wondered who P.E. Sands was and why he would be holding the world in his hands.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I thought the world was black and white because of all the smoke from the bombs in Second World War.— Bjoern
- Until a few years ago, I believed this was a "doggy dog" world, rather than a "dog-eat-dog" world.— jemima
- I used to think that the phrase "It's a dog eat dog world'' was its a dogey dog world.— Gabral
- I used to believe my dad was the best male figure in the world and wondered why he wasn't president already.— Ivy :)
- i used to believe that the world couldn't have possibly started before i was born.— emma
- I used to believe that we lived inside of the world. I asked my Dad who lived on the outside of the world. — Pauline