In the song "This Land is Your Land" there is a line that goes "From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters." I thought the line was "...to the ghosting waters." I thought it was refering to the white foam in the ocean waves that I thought looked a little like ghosts.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that the white foam on the surface of the ocean were unicorns trying to escape.— intunedwithmagic
- I thought the England was EDGE-land but england was ENG-landAnon
- I used to think that
"The land of make believe"
was
"The land of baked beans."— Baked Bean! - I was very young during the first gulf war and I thought that it was fought in the gulf of mexico.— Kay
- i used to think that the foam in the ocean was whipped cream. until i tasted itAnon
- At one point, i thought that "Where the Sun Don't Shine" and "The Land of The Rising Sun" where the same thing— A. Brone E.