To this day my mom doesn't believe me when I tell her that the line in The Beach Boys song "Kokomo" is "...that Monserrat mystique" and not "that man's a rotten stinker!"
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- I used to think Monserrat sounded like monster rat.Anon
- I used to believe that bruises were rotten blood. — llb91
- I used to believe that old rotten black banana skins were dogs lips!! — T Cross. Bournemouth
- I used to think that the song"Stayin Alive" said "Staying In Line" like at school when I was little. — MacKenzie
- I used to think that the line in the song "Life in the Fast Lane" was "Fights in the Bat Plane".Anon
- For a while, I thought hand grenades were called "hen grenades" and they were made of rotten eggs.— Athazagoraphobia