There was a country song that my sister and I heard on the radio that went like this:
It's gonna take a lot of river
to keep this broken heart afloat
We thought it was "to keep this broken artichoke" and we sang it that way until our mom heard us and gave us the correct lyrics.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- The song called heart of glass mixed me up as a kid. I heard "Heart and ass". — oops
- I used to believe an artichoke was an animal and we only ate its heart. — Laura
- I swear I heard a Disney Channel/Radio Disney song where the chorus was a repeated “Damn it”— SpengBab
- When i was about 5 I used to believe that Broken Hill was a broken hill. — Saad
- I used to believe that comets were pieces of the Sun that had broken off.— Carmen
- Broken bones meant that your arm or leg was separated from your body.— Kelly Hanson