songs

There's a song which has lyrics that are basically just a bunch of actions followed by "Rawhide" and then it starts again.
Up until I was *seventeen*, I had only heard of rawhide as that stuff you give dogs to chew on, so I thought that it was akin to have a song where you shout, "Dog food!" at random intervals, so the song made no sense to me.

Anon

I used to believe that Metal music was when a bunch of people would bang metal together to make noise. Ha ha.

Kassandra

For some strange reason I believed that you had to be a female to be a singer.I guess this comes from my mother playing her guitar for me when I was a little boy.
When I was older and played guitar myself I desperately wanted to sing but wouldn't because of this.
It was when I was maybe 14 I realised that The Beatles and The Stones and Zeppelin weren't women so it would be ok if I sang.

EL Greeko

When I was young I did not asscociate the Danny Boy song with Scotland, and with the words "... the pipes the pipes are ca-alling"; the image I had was of vague industrial water pipes - and wondered why someone was being called by them, but song lyrics were often pretty strange, so I just left it at that.

David

When I first heard ‘Papa Don’t Preach’ by Madonna, I thought it was an anti abortion song. Hence the lyrics: “But I made up my mind, I’m keeping my baby”

Annodam

When I was little and records were still popular, I thought that the singers singing the songs were singing live right at that moment and that if I kept playing either a particular song, or the whole record over and over, that eventually they'd get tired of singing the same songs over and over and over and would eventually yell at me to "pick another song or artist or album". LOL.

Jennifer

Growing up, my mom was a massive fan of Wham! and George Michael. I vividly remember her playing "Wake me up before you go go" while I was helping her to pack for our summer holidays. I thought this was some strange ritual to make sure my dad wouldn't get up early and go on holiday before she woke up.
It isn't surprising to know that I woke up VERY early the next morning so they wouldn't go without me.

Mahoney

Music - When i was a child i used to believe the Queen decided who was the Number One single, so when i was 6 or 7 i couldnt understand why she would allow the anti-monarchy song "God Save the Queen", by the Sex Pistols be Number One ! In her Silver Jubilee year as well ! BTW - the song "Papa Was A Rollin Stone'" by the Temptations? The verse where it says "And when he died all he left us was alone." Till i read it on this site i still thought it was " all he left us was a loan"..Is it not ?

Ian London

I used to take the lyrics of songs very literally: The song "Maneater" by Hall and Oats scared me to death every time I heard it. I somehow connected a visual image of this song with a scary poster of Dee Snyder of Twisted Sister eating some nasty piece of meat with jelly on it. This gave me nightmares for years

Moose

i've grown up listening to the beatles, and thus had some interesting beleifs relating to their songs and music, etc.
i always wanted to listen to the beatles when we were in the car, and on one of the songs they use a shaker (looks like an egg and sounds kind of like a maraca). i assumed that there were five beatles. the fifth one played the maracas.
i also thought that the lyrics to lucy in the sky with diamonds went "the girl with colaidis goes by". i thought colaidis was some sort of horrible disease, and when i got older figured it was an STD, and was too embarassed to ask my parents (thank god or they would have wondered about me). i only found out just recently that it goes "the girl with kaleidoscope eyes" when i got so curious i had to look up the lyrics so i knew how to spell colaidis to look it up in the dictionary!

Kate the Beatles Geek

Me and my cousin used to believe that the composer Beethoven was a dog. When we found out he was deaf, we thought it was so amazing how a dog that was DEAF could compose a such a beautiful song, until he told his mom that and he was a bit disappointed and surprised, but it was still amazing.

Kathie

When I was about 5 I believed that in rock songs space was left after every line so that you could repeat the words that had just been sung.

C S Wagon

I used to beleive that the muzak being palyed in the doctors office, was played on a boombox throught the air conditioning vents, and a group of nuns were up there, choosing what song to play.

Mike

I used to think that in the real world, people would burst into song at pivotal moments in their life like in disney movies and musicals like "the King and I". I had never seen any adult do it, but when I was alone I would sing (badly) about how I felt.

Kim

I used to believe that yodeling was illegal in certain countries.

Anon

that the song 'return to sender' was actually 'return to zenda' and that there was a place called zenda were all letters went if you didn't accept them.

jill

the first line of the australian national anthem is "australians all let us rejoice." i remember having an argument with my brother when we were in primary school because i was convinced that the line was "australians all eat ostriches...". needless to say, i was, er, wrong.

h

As a kid I'd never heard the word "accord" before when I first heard it in the last verse of "The First Noel", in the lines:

Now let us all with one accord
Sing praises to our heavenly Lord.

The only guess I could then come up with for the meaning of "accord" was that it might be short for "accordion". I thought that a neat image, singing Christmas songs with accordion accompanyment. But I puzzled as to why it said "one accord", as if something would be wrong with Christmas singing to the accompanyment of more than one accordion. Perhaps accordions are loud enough that two would drown out the singing, I thought.

Yvonne

I beleived that when you put the lid down on the record player that people came out to play the music and ran away when you lifted the lid. they were never there when I lifted the lid??

Teresa

I used to believe that the song "Kiss From a Rose" by Seal was originally sung by Chuck E. Cheese and his band because I saw it in their animatronic show. It was not until I was like 12 did I hear that song in the car and I asked my mom, "Why is a Chuck E. Cheese song playing on the radio?"

Kelly