I used to think the national anthem went "our land is bound with nature strips" instead of natures' gifts. I believed this until i was 14 and our school assembly program contained the real words.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- In primary school, a whole bunch of kids including me believed that watermelon seeds contained ants. — Caff
- i used to think that mother nature was a real person— stephen s
- We were told at school by the evil dinner ladies that apple pips contained arsenic.....Anon
- i believed that michelle gayle's sweetness song contained the lyrics shade in sheep shit!— andrew
- I used to think that
"The land of make believe"
was
"The land of baked beans."— Baked Bean! - My partner thought women used the brown packing tape as wax strips.— Helen