When I was in Grammer school we sang a Polish folk song about how the "Vistula" ( a river in Poland) was flowing. I misunderstood and thought it was "fistula" for years.. Then someone told me a fistula was a boil you get on your rear end. Talk about embarrassed...
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I was told that spaghetti grew on trees and i anounced it in class one day in grammer school.— w.b.
- I used to believe that people from Holland were called "Hollish", like people from Poland are called "Polish"— Sally
- Polish war memorial ,I thought it was an instruction.as in to polish— oddsox
- When I was 5 years old, I used to believe Poland was snowy and cold all year round, like the North Pole. — Sara
- i thought I got one year older when my family sang the birthday song.— I am the ghost
- As a youngster, my older brother told me that polish sausage was really the bull's genitals. — Ross