I was telling my boyfriend about the hymn "Victory in Jesus" and when I got to the part that went "He sought me/and bought me" my boyfriend thought I said "He socked me/and bopped me."
A childhood belief about hymns

others believed things like this
- my boyfriend used to think that Hanna and Barbera were two women that did all the cartoons— Helen
- I convinced my boyfriend that paprika flavored crisps were made from donkeys...he was 20 at the time.Anon
- I used to think wars started when a sergeant from one country socked a sergeant from another country.— recovering
- i beleived that when someone bought a new house, they would swap with the person they bought it from— c
- When he was a kid, my husband thought the hymn "bringing in the sheaves" was "bringing in the cheese."Anon
- I used to believe God had a pet tortoise. There was a hymn we sang that went "Great things he hath taught us"— Lozza