I use to think the lyrics to Kenny Rogers song Lucille was......You picked a fine time to leave me lucille, with 400 children.... I was like 6....i didn't understand the "concept" of 400 children, or I might have thought twice about it.
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
- 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 didn't quite grasp the concept of time zones, and thought that Chinese kids went to school at night.— Giselle
- One time my brother asked my mom why mosquitoes bite. She said it was because children are bad.— sue
- I used to think that only grown ups were "people".Children to me were no people ,they were just children.— Minny