Ever notice how stupid/messed up/creepy stuff we teach children is?
First, there's "Ring Around the Rosie," which is about the black plague.
Second, there's "Rock a Bye Baby," just look at these lyrics:
Rock a bye baby in the treetop
When the wind blows the cradle will rock
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall
And down will come baby cradle and all
Down will come baby cradle and all?! As in the infant is gonna fall out of a friggin' tree? I'm pretty sure the next stop for that kid is in the ground. Why the hell are we singing this to put kids to sleep?
"Humpty Dumpty " is pretty bad too.
On a lighter note, there's "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" :
Twinkle, twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky...
Why are we wondering what it is when we're saying it's a star? We know what a star is--it's a glowing clump of gases that if is close enough to the entire planet (like the sun).
And in case you didn't realize, the following songs all have the same melody:
Twinkle Twinkle
The alphabet song
Baa-Baa Black Sheep
By the way, I babysat this weekend and was singing some of these songs to him (the cutest baby in the world).
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