My six-year-old brother sings the chorus to McLean's American Pie like this:
"Hi hi this American guy
Drove my buddy to the beddy
But the beddy was dry
Then good old toys
With wiskers and rye
Singing this will be the day I die."
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- I'm an American, and for a good long while I thought that Boxing Day involved the sport of boxing.— miss Taken
- I used to believe toys came alive at night.
Because I love toys, and I hoped be good friend with my toys.Anon - I used to think Buddy Rich was called Buddy Rich because he was my dad's friend, same with Buddy Holly. Anon
- i used to believe that i am american.
i am japanese . — mayumi - I thought that all black people were African-AmericanAnon
- I used to believe that God looked exactly like the picture of Abraham Lincoln on an American penny.— Leah