When I was a little kid, I liked listening to a song called "The Yodeler" while riding in the car. One lyric was "When he met with an avalanche interrupting his cry". I thought that an avalanche was a type of animal, like a bear or squirrel. I also thought that the part "Once an Austrian went yodeling" was "Once an ostrich went yodeling" and I would picture an ostrich walking across a nature trail to the mountains.
A childhood belief about songs

others believed things like this
- I used to think an avalanche was a type of bird native to the high mountains— Nina
- when i was little i thought that my hic-ups were caused by little man on the back of my tounge, yodelingAnon
- I used to believe that yodeling was illegal in certain countries.Anon
- when I was little my uncle told me he was part bear. I believed people could be part bear until I was twelve. — Audrey
- i used to think the song "walking in a winter wonderland" was "walking in a womens underwear"— stephen s
- I used to believe that an oilskin actually came from an animal called an Oil.....— Sally