There is a line in the old song "Mexicali Rose"(which was one of my lullabies...)that said, "dry those big brown eyes and smile dear..." but when I was very young my mother slurred it into "drydoes big brown eyes" and somehow I thought a "drydo" was something like a kiwi but it had eyes like a potato and I pictured a basket of plastic ones on the coffee-table. I was a grown adult before I realized what the real words were!
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I was born brunette with brown eyes and dark hair, i thought people with blue eyes, had water in them.Anon
- Drinking coffee before your 12 yrs, old will make the white in your eyes turn brown.— dawn b.
- I used to believe that my eyes were brown because I ate too much chocolate. Thanks, Dad!— Christine
- when I was young I used to believe if I squinted my eyes and it was windy my eyes would stay like this forever— Jeanne
- when i was young i thought god was a cloud, big white fluffy cloud floating around with 2 eyes and a smile. — kerrie
- The Kim Carnes song called 'Bette Davis Eyes' well my dad used to sing "She's got Dickie Davis Eyes" Anon