Story about this misheard lyric by: Bridget Andrews

This was playing on loudspeakers where I was filling my car with gas. Few phrases were distinctly understandable in this song (which I'd never heard before). I got out a pad and paper and desperately tried to copy down some actual phrases to identify the song by. With considerable difficulty, I gleaned enough actual lyrics to search for the song on google.com and find the real lyrics. My one most distinct mishearing was of the lines above. As for the 'corn trees' part, that is what I thought it sounded most like. I cited the alternate mishearing of 'palm trees' because that was my first guess was as to what the real lyrics of that phrase would be, since palm trees are a real kind of tree, but corn doesn't grow on trees, and no trees wouldn't likely be in cartons. But on finding the real lyrics, no kind of trees or cartons proved to be there. So both are mishearings.