When my son was small, whwnever the Kenny Rogers song "Lucille" came on the radio he would say..I hate that song!..one day I asked why & he said..cause his wife left him with 400 children ^ crops in the field!!..the lyrics are.... 4 hungry children...I'll never forget that to this day!!
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
- One time my brother asked my mom why mosquitoes bite. She said it was because children are bad.— sue
- I used to believe that when a song came on the car radio, the band was sitting on top of our van.Anon
- in the song with the lyrics "take your passion" my sister used to always think it was "take your pants off"— Steped