In the Kenny Rogers song, You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, I always thought the line "four hungry children" was actually "four hundred children". Surprisingly it never occured to me why they had so many children.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- I used to think Kenny Rogers had 400 children and a crop in the field. Rather than 4 hungry children.Anon
- I was convinced that children weren't humans, only adults were, children were a total different race!— Leda
- My daddy used to think that there was a children-police that killed children who was bad— jonnie
- I used to think that only grown ups were "people".Children to me were no people ,they were just children.— Minny
- One time my brother asked my mom why mosquitoes bite. She said it was because children are bad.— sue
- I thought that Ted Bundy was a character on "Married With Children."— Patrick