When she was a kid, my mother hated the carol "Good King Wenceslas" because she thought the line "Thou and I shall see him dine" was really "Thou and I shall see him dying".
A childhood belief about hymns
others believed things like this
- My mother, the good Catholic, thought that Jesus, being a string bean (supreme being) was really skinny.— Mark D
- When I was little, I thought dying your hair would give you the color AND hairstyle displayed on the box. Anon
- My Mother used to tell me only the good die young and I would live to be 100+ years old because I was bad.— William
- I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K
- When I was little I thought that dying your hair means you kill your hair.Anon
- When I was little, my dad had a friend named Scott. I thought my dad's friend was the king of Scotland— Uhhh....