I thought "round yon virgin" was "roundjun urgent" in Silent Night and had no clue what that even meant... Also in Joy to the World when it said "righteousness" in one of the later verses I thought it was just some really weird long word.
A childhood belief about songs

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that "nuptial" was a naughty word. I thought it meant nipple. XD— Sara Hagen
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- I thought the Virgin Islands were owned by Richard Branson until I was 24. — LJ
- I always thought 'virgin' was Marys star sign and could never work out why it was such a big dealAnon
- for the longest time every i used to think that Prince's "Raspberry Barret" said "round merry go round"— lin
- I used to believe that teachers lived in ufos at night and tha's why they dressed so weird.— llama queen