I thought the hymn "Toiling On" had something to do with having a really difficult bowel movement.
A childhood belief about hymns

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that God was like a puppeteer, controlling every single movement we made. — Carrie C. in PA
- When I was young I used to believe that Euthanasia was a youth movement in Asia- how naive is that!!!— Ruth
- My dream was to be a dad when I grew up, which would provew to be difficult seeing as i am a girl.Anon
- When he was a kid, my husband thought the hymn "bringing in the sheaves" was "bringing in the cheese."Anon
- I used to believe God had a pet tortoise. There was a hymn we sang that went "Great things he hath taught us"— Lozza
- We had an antique lamp that I thought was hideous and for years I thought "Art Deco" was a synonym for ugly.Anon