I always believed that Kenny Rogers' 'Lucille' went
"you picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a box of oatmeal..."
I hated oatmeal and could understand why the children were hungry!
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- I used to think Kenny Rogers had 400 children and a crop in the field. Rather than 4 hungry children.Anon
- Little Debbie put her boogers in her oatmeal piesAnon
- My family told me that if I ate uncooked oatmeal that it would swell up and my stomach would explode.— david
- I was convinced that children weren't humans, only adults were, children were a total different race!— Leda
- My daddy used to think that there was a children-police that killed children who was bad— jonnie
- I used to beleive that my stomach growled when I was hungry because I was part tiger.— Matthew