Until I was 8 or 9 I thought that the lyrics to We Wish You A Merry Christmas were: 'Glad tidings we bring, to you and your sins' instead of 'Glad tidings we bring, to you and your kin'!!!
A childhood belief about hymns

others believed things like this
- that song that goes *bring me a higher love*
i thought it said *breathing in iron lung*— oi - I used to believe that if you died you could have 'an operation' to bring you back to life. — Mikey
- I usd to believe that at restaurants that had a BYO sign out the front, you had to "bring your own" meal.— Fiona
- I used to think that my mom had to buy ice cubes from the store and bring them home to fill up the trays.— Shawna
- I used to believe that a wake was something you go to to try to bring the dead person back to life.Anon
- I used to think watering dead flowers would bring them back to life.— Natasha