A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

When I was a young girl, my mother used to sing "You are my Sunshine" to me as a lullaby. She died when I was 8, and because she had been sick for a few years, I hadn't heard her sing it to me since I was probably around 4 or 5. Well, one summer, I found my old crib mobile music box, which played the song. While I remembered the first verse, I couldn't remember the second. On the long trip to college, I finally asked my dad, "Daddy? How's the second verse of 'You are my Sunshine' go? All I know is that it's about steak." "Steak? There's no steak in that song." That's when I found out that I was mishearing the phrase "When I awoke dear, I was *mistaken*", and had been assuming it was about steak.