i got caught out a couple of months ago by a group of friends when i did my best rendition of spiderbait "black betty". the problem was that i thought it was about the story book horse and sang "whoa black beauty bam ba lam". ill never live it down...
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- I thought black people were black because they drank chocolate milk. — Shelby
- My mom told me that if I didn't wash my hair black widow spiders would come live in it.— grew up in Nebraska
- When i was a child, i used to believe that when people ate black beans, they became black— Mar'ia Elena
- I used to believe that black people were black because they had so many frecles that they merged together.Anon
- When I was about 5 or 6, I used to think the song 'Beauty and the Beast' was really 'Beauty and the Beef'.— Natski
- I thought that old movies were black and white because the world was black and white then. — K