I used to believe that when we sang the hymn Surely Goodness and Mercy Will Follow You, that we were singing about Shirley and Mercy following us.
A childhood belief about hymns

others believed things like this
- I used to believe God had a pet tortoise. There was a hymn we sang that went "Great things he hath taught us"— Lozza
- When Madonna sang "let the choir sing" in "Like a Prayer", I thought she was singing "love by proxy"— Kristen
- Billy Squire sang about "My Kind of Lover". My wife sang about "My Candelabra"— Wailerman
- i used to believe that the sun/moon would follow me because i could see it where ever i was.— Omar
- I use to think that when you say a "one-way" stree sign you had to follow it.— Ron
- Follow me and I will make you vicious old men.....OOPS that was really fishers of men— oddsox