When I was little, my dad would often play "Hot Rod Lincoln". There was never any alcohol in the house, and I'd never heard anybody drop the 'g' from a word ending in 'ing' before, so I thought Drinkin was a place, and that the guy driving the Hot Rod Lincoln was going to give him a lift.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I used to believe because I was born I Abe Lincoln's birthday I had a better shot at being President.— END
- I used to believe that God looked exactly like the picture of Abraham Lincoln on an American penny.— Leah
- when i was in kindergarten i believed that abe lincoln was buried in a cabin and not a coffin— lisa
- I used to belive that it was Illeagal to drink ANY beverage while driving, not just alcohol.— Emma*
- I heard the song about Heaven being a place where nothing ever happened and thought, "What a boring place."Anon
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny