A friend of mine told me he once used to think 'Cotton-Eyed Joe' went "Where did you come from, where did you go, where did you come from, GOT NINE TOES". Somehow the reality of it, "Cotton-Eyed Joe" doesn't really make any more sense.
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
- When I was younger, I believed that squinting in a storm would make you cross-eyed... forever.Anon