In the song "Home On The Range" I could never figure out why the word 'seldom' would be heard as a discouraging word.
A childhood belief about songs

others believed things like this
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m
- When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.— Karin
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- I used to believe that I actually invented the word "excellent".— poop jacket
- I used to believe that to speak Spanish all you had to do was a an "o" to the end of each word. — !!.-ariel-.!!