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Lullabye...
Sun, June 8, 2008 - 1:30 PMIn 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
What kind of shit is that to sing to your kid? Sounds horrific. Why is the baby in a tree? Was there a tornado? I dunno for sure but I DO know that when a baby (and cradle) fall out of a tree, chances are slim the baby will survive.
Lucky for me (I guess?) my mom sung Tora Lora Lora... Which is still kinda strange since I'm only a quarter irish... And not on my mom's side.
Anyhow... Did anyone's mother used to sing Rocka-bye-baby to them? Are you totally wacko because of it or what?? :~)
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Sun, June 8, 2008 - 2:00 PM
Children folktales as my German profess explain was always negative and a lesson involved if you looked a bit deeper.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimmen.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_folklore |
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Sun, June 8, 2008 - 2:12 PM
I can understand the folklore and the lessons to be learned within... However, this is not folklore.... Or German for that matter. This is a lullabye meant to soothe ones mind into sleep. Also, even when you read the extended lyrics to Rock-a-bye baby, there is no lesson to be learned. Simply a song which starts out in tragedy.
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Sun, June 8, 2008 - 4:21 PM
My mom never sang that song to me. She would hum or sing the Sleeping Beauty Waltz and no matter what, it always made me stop crying.
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Sun, June 8, 2008 - 4:52 PM
google works for answers
au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index
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Sun, June 8, 2008 - 4:55 PM
sorry for the indirect answer, here i what u wanted:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-a-bye_Baby
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Sun, June 8, 2008 - 10:45 PM
im not sure my mother really ever sang to me. i had a children's book of lullabies. it was never used.
*shrug* i think i turned out ok, but thats all a matter of opinion :P |
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Sun, June 8, 2008 - 10:47 PM
p.s.
every heard american lullaby?
i sang it for my voice class. a few times actually. its tragic, but beautiful. |
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Sun, June 8, 2008 - 10:51 PM
i've thought about that one for awhile, i think that's why i'm so fucked up. either that or watching hellraiser when i was 7.
anyways! what makes you fucked up mikey?! there's something there, maybe too much fun? |
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Mon, June 9, 2008 - 7:07 AM
i sang grateful dead and frank zappa songs to my daughter, usually. though sometimes i did bohemian rhapsody, which is kinda a tragedy.
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Mon, June 9, 2008 - 7:58 AM
heh, My mom used to change the words.. went from 'and down will come baby' to 'and mama will catch you, cradle and all'... at least, it was that until i stopped believing that she was strong enough to catch me, then she change it to 'papa will catch you', which i seemed more likely, since my dad's pretty much an unstopable wall.
what was i? a practical kid? wtf is that? ;D |
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Mon, June 9, 2008 - 8:39 AM
To this day I'm still so tramatized I won't let anyone rock me in a cradle in the treetop. Actually I'm not crazy about heights either. Count to think of it - cradles scare the shit out of me!
I am not fucked up in the head. I am not fucked up in the head. I am not fucked up in the... Oh Lookie! Something shiny...! ;-) |
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Thu, June 12, 2008 - 8:05 AM
my mom
"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make my happ-y when skies are grey, you'll never know dear how much I love you.... so please, don't take my sunshine away" ~ My Mom. She still sings it to me too.
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Wed, June 25, 2008 - 3:31 PM
hehe, now that this subject is coming up, perhaps we should note that one of the things important for the mother to to make sure the child does not try to escape from the bed. in the corresponding russian folklore, children were scared with the "big gray wolf from the forest" ready to eat up the poor child, should the latter just even attempt to get out of the bed.
this is how the system works, broThers and sisTers. they try to scare us into staying within the norm, so they don't have to deal with us. because if we escape, we learn too much, and we became a danger to the system. (perhaps in the old days there might have been a few cases when a baby might have been eaten by some wild animal.... i'm talking about many centuries ago.....) not that the mother is necessarily the matrix itself.... each of us manifests the matrix when we do things without thinking. just sayin' :-) |
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Thu, June 26, 2008 - 3:26 PM
yeah, my mom used to sing that one-- she also sang some bizarre hunting one about the daddy killing a rabbit to put his baby bunting in-- yuck! when my son was little i started to say "okay, skin a rabbit" (pull the shirt over your head) and other stuff like that until it occurred to me that i really don't want that stuff to continue down the family tree. kinda like i vetoed my dad's middle name (cletus!) for my first born. sometimes the buck just has to stop here. :)
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Sun, December 7, 2008 - 2:30 AM
Agree wholeheartedly--
--thus, to my own darling spawn, what I sang was, "Down will come [insert child's name], into your mommy's arms." It scans fine if you put the emphases right, especially since I'd had the remarkable prescience to give both little ones 2-syllable names...who knew? Seriously--you write as well as others, you make the song what you want it to be, right!? I love that you wrote about those nasty lullaby words!!! ;-D
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