There is a German Christmas song that begins like this: "Sweeter the bells never ring" and I understood the words to mean "Sweet, the bells never ring", but could never understand why it was my father's favorite Christmas song.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I use to think the known Christmas song "in excelsis deo" was en chelsea's dayo— Mike Simmons
- I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K
- Do you really mean to tell me that father Christmas is a myth?
Finally......— Peter (Aged 70) - When i was child, i used to think my father was my father christmas.— BeB's
- I used to think that Father Christmas stole toys from Smyths.— Shovel Tem
- We didn't have a chimney in our house. Father Christmas had to come in through the letter box.— Ginnean