I always thought up until recently, that the Oak Ridge Boys song, "Elvira" said "Hell Fire-Up". I thought this was somekind of song to make you go to church to keep from hell's flames firing up on you.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- I was sad for many years because my aunt once told me I would go to hell for farting in church!— Tara
- I used to believe that if you said hell 50 times you went to hell— a big boff
- I thought that if you wore the colour red, you would go yo hell. — Tone
- i thought when you flushed, it went down to hell and that's what the devil fed the people in he..— Barb.
- I thought that "heck" was a less horrible version of hell for people who were only KIND OF evil.— Oizys
- When I first went to School, I thought it was like hell. It's not as a bad as I thought, heheAnon