In the song "Oh What A Beautiful Morning" from Oklahoma, I used to wonder what was so wonderful about corn that was as high as an elephants eye. I didn't think that an elephants could have an eye that was more than two inches high.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- I used to believe cats ate dogs and mice ate elephants— lucien
- I thought that hippos were baby elephants— Gerna
- I used to believe that peanuts were a daily must to strengthen the memory like elephants — Qb Cheese
- i didn't beleive this, but a kid my sister knew thought if he screamed in a really high voice, he ran faster.Anon
- I used to beleive that corn was pigs teeth. And when it was corn on the cob, I thought it was the jaw.— Brianna
- I used to believe that if i threw something as high as i could into the air god would steal it.Anon