Children's songs. Lyrics ever make you go hmmmmm?

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I was listening to some children's CDs on the way home with Nicholas last night and it reminded me, sometimes I hear the lyrics and I'm thinking Wow, that's pretty wild and crazy for a kids song. Some of them are downright violent.

I know some of the songs are really old and the meanings of the lyrics are from a different time and what have you just wondered if anybody else has thought the same thing.

Example:

Bill Grogan's Goat

There was a man. Now, please take note. There was a man. Who had a goat.                                                                                                   He loved that goat. Indeed he did. He loved that goat. Just like a kid.      One day that goat was feeling fine ate three red shirts right off the line.     Bill Grogan grabbed him by the back and tied him to the railroad track.   Now when the train came into sight that goat grew pale and green with fright.                                                                                                  He heaved a sigh as if in pain coughed up the shirts and fled the train.

*Whaaaaat? My kid just heard about you tying a goat to a railroad track b/c he ate your shirts then he puked them up. Good times.

She'll Be Comin Round the Mountain

...Oh we'll kill the old red rooster when she comes.  Yes we'll kill the old red rooster when she comes. We'll kill the old red rooster, we'll kill the old red rooster, we'll kill the old red rooster when she comes.

*My kid just heard the word kill 5 times in less than a minute

Oh, Dear! What Can the Matter Be (Johnny's So Long At the Fair)

Oh, dear! What can the matter be?
Dear, dear! What can the matter be?
Oh, dear! What can the matter be?
Johnny's so long at the fair.
He promised to buy me a trinket to please me
And then for a smile, oh, he vowed he would tease me
He promised to buy me a bunch of blue ribbons
To tie up my bonnie brown hair.
He promised to bring me a basket of posies
A garland of lilies, a gift of red roses
A little straw hat to set off the blue ribbons
That tie up my bonnie brown hair.
Oh, dear! What can the matter be?
Dear, dear! What can the matter be?
Oh, dear! What can the matter be?
Johnny's so long at the fair.

*This one just cracks me up and I'm thinking, Johnny's at the fair finding another girlfriend that isn't so damn needy and materialistic.

 

 

 

ABMcKinney

Ummm...

"There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children she didn't know what to do. So she gave them some broth without any bread, whipped them all soundly and sent them to bed"

Yeah, it's kind of CPS worthy.

JARbaby

Rock a by Baby

Ring Around the Rosey

Most of the classics have violent or roots in disease.

LoriFalce

ABMcKinney:

Ummm...

"There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children she didn't know what to do. So she gave them some broth without any bread, whipped them all soundly and sent them to bed"

Yeah, it's kind of CPS worthy.

Especially since she could have just started a blog, gotten TLC interested and made millions off their little whipped butts.

turtlesmom

and thats why turtle and me mostly listen to regular music in the car.  she loves the soundtrack to across the universe and she actually started singing along.