My friend and I loved going to hockey games, They played Cotton Eye Joe a lot, and we loved that song so much. One time at a party we went up to sing it on kareoke and we were really shocked that it was "If it hadn't been for Cotton Eye Joe" and not "Vaydodden veence a Cotton Eye Joe".
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- i used to believe cotton candy was real cotton after going to chuckie cheese and my brother told me— jennifer
- I used to think that cotton candy was made from actual cotton so I never wanted to try itAnon
- i used to belive that the cotton and the cotton candy were the same things and for this reason i ate both.— tiziana
- I used to believe that cotton candy was made out of cotton and sugar.— Ezy
- i thought cotton candy was made out of cottonAnon
- i used to believe cotton was made up of cat's fur— Umme Hani