In the carol Ding Dong Merrily On High, I thought that the line hosanna in excelsis after the long "Gloria" was 'and someone has beaten Chelsea'
A childhood belief about hymns

others believed things like this
- I use to think the known Christmas song "in excelsis deo" was en chelsea's dayo— Mike Simmons
- row row row your boat gently down the stream...merrily merrily merrily merrily life's a butter bean.— bleeslady
- I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K
- i once thought that if you jumped high enough in the air, you'd get stuck!Anon
- I used to believe that a "punch line" meant a line of people waiting to dip punch from a punch bowl.— Sheila
- I thought that wars had to last four years... just like high school and college.— A. Falk