Remember that song by Starship "We Built This City"? My sister and I used to believe that the actual lyrics were "we built this city on ROCKS AND COAL". The true words are "we built this city on ROCK AND ROLL". We still think our version made more sense from a construction perspective...
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- I thought that the song "Built this City" by starship went as follows. "Milk and Cereal, Rock and Roll"Anon
- I used to believe that in the tooth fairy took all your teeth and built a tooth city for her to live in!Anon
- I used to think the song "Who Built the ark? Noah. Noah." was "Who built the Ark? No one, no one!"— Embarrassed Kent Girl
- My sister used to tell me that Victorian houses were shiped from Victoria after they were built.Anon
- I used to think no one built the ark because I confused it with Noah.Anon
- I used to believe that all churches were built by God rather than by people.— Andrea