I grew up in Whitestone, New York. When Glenn Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" would come on the radio, I would sing "I'm a Whitestone cowboooooy....!" much to the chagrin of my mother.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- I used to think that when Dad turned the radio up in the car the artist was made to sing louder!!— Sparks
- When listening to the radio in the mornings I felt sorry for singers they had to come and sing that early. — Tereza
- I used to believed that smoking would make me a cowboy.— Alberto Batista
- Did anyone else sing "Hark, the hairy angels sing"?— Jill
- My mum said that when I used to sing "noahs arc" at school I would sing "who built the arc, no one, no one"— Clare
- I used to think that New York was pronounced "Yew Nork"Anon