Tuesday, September 21, 2010

lyrics and rhymes for children...debatable

I find the following lyrics and rhymes crazy. I sing to Kellan every day and have a list of songs I go through. I always forget lyrics or rhymes so I had to look up a few and realized some songs are just ridiculous. They're either scary or they just don't make sense. Here's a few of our favorites:

Humpty Dumpty:
"...had a great fall...couldn't put Humpty together again."
(Humpty dies in the end. DIES, people!)

"Boom boom, ain't it great to be crazy?"
(this is the actual title of a song.)

Hush Little Baby:
"...and if that horse and cart fall down, you'll still be the sweetest baby in town."
(What does one thing have to do with the other? There is no "cause and effect" here.)

Jack and Jill:
"...Jack fell down and broke his crown..."
(crown is Old English for HEAD, not crown like a King would wear. So the lesson is if you go up a hill, you'll break your head.)

London Bridge: (this one takes the cake)
"London Bridge is falling down, falling down...
...iron bars will bend and break...
...here's a prisoner I have got...what's the prisoner done to you?...stole my watch and broke my chain..."
(the song just goes on and on with catastrophe. No matter what building material they use the bridge falls, the prisoner gets sent to jail because no one has enough money to set him free...it's a mess.)

My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean:
"...Last night I lay on my pillow, last night I lay on my bed,
last night I lay on my pillow and dreamed that my Bonnie was DEAD."
(sheesh!)

Nobody Likes Me:
"Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, guess I'll go eat worms."
(So if you're a loser, go eat something gross because then you'll be a gross loser.)

Rock a Bye Baby:
"...when the bough breaks the cradle will fall,
down will come baby cradle and all."
(I'm sure everyone has thought of this one.)

Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly:
(you know she swallows a horse and dies in the end, right?)

and lastly, Three Blind Mice:
(we'll give you the whole picture)
"Three blind mice,
three blind mice,
see how they run,
see how they run.
They all ran after the farmer's wife
SHE CUT OFF THEIR TAILS WITH A CARVING KNIFE
did you ever see such a sight in your life
as three blind mice?"

(I'm better at humming anyway.)

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