Do you remember "The look" by Roxette? I think it was popular around 1990, when I was 10 years old, and I really loved this song. I had just learned english in school for a year, but I tried to understand and translate the lyrics, looking up words in the dictionary and stuff (well most of the time the lines didn't make that much sense to me, I know now over 10 years later that they REALLY don't make that much sense).
Anyways there is this line where I always heard "kissing like a ramrod" and associated it to that big spaceship-transforming-robot from Saber Rider (anyone knows that series?) which was called Ramrod. I tried to look that word up, but I couldn't find it, most likely because I misspelled it "Ramrott" or something like that.
So, I went to my english teacher (an elderly man) and asked him what a ramrod was. He looked a bit puzzled, so I provided him the context and said the line in the song was "kissing like a ramrod", which made him look even more puzzled. He then muttered something about how lyrics in songs are sometimes no correct english and went on with his english lesson.
Years later, I stumbled by conincidence over the lyrics to "The Look" printed out somewhere... which solved the ramrod puzzle, since the original lyrics were "tasty like a raindrop". ^_^;
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- Actual lyrics: "I've never been your beast of burden"
My lyrics: "I've never been your big suburban"
— Big Suburban - I thought that the song "Hands off she's mine" by The English Beat was actually saying "Anton, she's my aunt"— Nate
- in the song with the lyrics "take your passion" my sister used to always think it was "take your pants off"— Steped
- My mum always thought the lyrics to macy grays song was i try to say goodbye to my chook.— alana
- I used to believe that if I spelled Norwegian words backwards, it would be English. I don't anymore...— Gudrun