My parents were Folkies, and I REALLY murdered the beautiful, tragic"No More Songs" by Phil Ochs.I thought the line "he whithers on the beat, he's dying" was "the whale is on the beach, he's dying".I..gulp.. Sang it that way for years.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- When I was little, I thought dying your hair would give you the color AND hairstyle displayed on the box. Anon
- When I was little I thought that dying your hair means you kill your hair.Anon
- My parents used to have an old radio. I thought it could only play old songs, like from when they were young.— kathy
- Phil Collins song "I missed again" - I thought it was "I pis*ed again" - didn't realise he was an alcoholic?!Anon
- Whenever I saw a picture of a whale spouting water, I thought it was urinating.Anon
- I used to believe that if you were killed, you came back; but if you were murdered, you didn't. lol!— M.O. LeClair