One of the first songs I learned in nursery school was "My Bonnie is over the ocean". We used to sing it with the English lyrics even though none of us little children understood the meaning, and so I always imagined a pony on a ship crossing the ocean.
At the end of the song, the chorus goes "Brought back, brought back, oh brought back my Bonnie to me" - in my version, this became "Brotbeck (= bread baker in Swiss German), Brotbeck, oh Brotbeck my pony to me". Makes sense, right?
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I used to think that the song "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" was really "My Body Lies Over the Ocean."Anon
- i used to believe that the water in the ocean went away a night......then came back in the morning.— Beverly
- When I was a child I used to believe children were being brought by stork.— Matteo
- I thought Bonnie and Clyde were fictional characters.Anon
- whenever the tv announcer said "brought to you", I thought it was one word - "brotue".Anon
- I thought when i was a kid, that all mailboxes had tubes that brought your mail to the person u sent it to.— Andrew