When they had us sing "America the Beautiful" in school, I thought the words were,
"In the Donzer Lee-light."
Instead of "In the dawns early light"
I discovered that I was wrong when I read one of the Ramona books by Beverley Cleary, in which Ramona makes the same mistake.
Hehe
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- In "God Bless America" I thought it was "With the light from a bulb" instead of "from above."— Carol
- that God lives in the roof of our church and makes electricity to light the chandeliers— M
- I used to hear "Everytime you go away, you take a piece of Meat with you"
Makes a nice light snack I spose.— Linda - When I first went to School, I thought it was like hell. It's not as a bad as I thought, heheAnon
- When listening to the radio in the mornings I felt sorry for singers they had to come and sing that early. — Tereza
- My mum said that when I used to sing "noahs arc" at school I would sing "who built the arc, no one, no one"— Clare