When she was only five or six, she would dress up in her father's oversized shirt and stand in front of a "microphone" made out of a shoe polish can and belt out folk operas just like the real thing.
五、六歲時，鄧麗君就穿著父親的大襯衫、搭條毛巾，頭插扶桑花，在鞋油盒子作成的「麥克風」前，有模有樣地唱起歌仔戲。