Yes! I love this. When I had my daughter (19yrs ago), I changed Rock a Bye to.."rock a bye baby, in mommies arms, when you go to sleep you'll come to no harm. when you wake up, I'll be right here, to love you forever, you are so dear." Sang it that way to both my kids cause I didn't want them to hear about the cradle falling lol!
Jennifer Dillard Best rewrite! My edit was "rock a bye baby in the swing set, mama's love will always hold you near so drift off to sleep before Mama does first and have sweet dreams until mornings light!" Pretty sure after 5 books every night and this song and a few other routines I cursed myself with a morning kid who like 5:30AM!😴😪
My husband use to hate to sing rock-a-by baby to our daughter because of the end... so he made up "And when the bow breaks the cradle will fall and daddy will catch you cradle and all!" So now my kids think thats how it goes and even have fought teachers about that
Rebecca P Wow I never knew being a millennium was an insult. However I believe I am considered a Xennial. Look it up... thanks for the history lesson but I knew that and when my children are older I will explain that to them but for now at five and two I think I will keep the song as we catch them and not let them fall out of a tree...
My mom did this to rock-a-bye baby- Rock-a-bye baby on a tree top When the wind blows The cradle will rock When the bow breaks The cradle will fall But momma is there To save them all 💜💜❤️❤️😍 Thats what my mom sang to me and my sister when we were little
The cheery sounding 'Ring around the roses" is about the black plague. "Ashes ashes we all fall down" is the metaphor for the deaths and the London fires which took out the plague...how many circles of 4 year olds are singing this in preschool and at birthday parties....
Rock-a-bye Baby is actually based of from the Indians or other tribes around the world. When the mother goes to get water or work in fields they would hang there little child up on a tree and let the wind blow them prittymuch rocking them calmly. If by accident the branch ends up not strong they would fall but they are ok because of how comfy and patted they are in those basket things.
Ohmygod. 😂 I just watched Lola the whole time! Her expressions throughout the video were amazing. I laughed out loud when she threw Penn Charles in the blanket!!
Alouette is about plucking a bird for dinner. Most nursery rhythms are trying to teach you something. It was easier in the old days to put it in song or story because they couldn't read or write. So to pass info along and and making it easier to remember.
Dang, you did good with the three princes! I was convinced. Mom used to change some of the nursery rhymes and bedtime stories when she read to us when we were kids. One day she was reading Little Red Riding Hood and we told her the story was wrong because the wolf is supposed to eat Grandma and then the woodsman cuts her out of the wolf. Mom was like, "How do you kids know that when I never read that to you?" I don't even remember how we knew. Must have heard it from some other kids.
I heard somewhere that “Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick” was about someone who converted during the Reformation, to avoid being burned at the stake... ie, jumping over the candlestick.
Even the childrens' nightly prayer: Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take That is the original. You have to realize that there were many diseases that there were no vaccines for and no antibiotics for. Many children did not live to adulthood because of this and many other practices from days gone by.✌️💜
Yes and when I was little my mother decided that she would change it to: Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep Angels watch me through the night, And keep me in their precious sight It didn’t scare me quite as much and now that’s the one I prefer
or to warn them, the muffin man was written to warn kids about staying out of Dewey Lane because the muffin man would lure them down with muffins on strings next to his bakery and then kill the kids he killed 15+ kids before he died by choking on a dumpling, the police never caught him. the only way this is spelled correctly is because I have spell check if not.... well with ADHD and dyslexia life is not simple..
I'm a French teacher and I just used your video in my lesson on body parts/Alouette. It was a hit! And I must say, Lola, you have a wonderful French accent!
How timely. I'm an elementary music teacher and just put together a Mother Goose program for our kindergarteners. I wrote some lyrics for a Mother Goose song, now I just need a melody. We're using lots of nursery rhymes, some spoken, some sung, but I have to say I've always liked, "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, had so many children didn't know what to do. She gave them some broth without any bread and whipped them all soundly and sent them to bed." Of course you need to add a slapstick sound effect on the word, whipped!
I hated that one as a kid because I didn't believe they all needed a spanking at once. The adults would say they all needed one they didn't get earlier. I really thought it was unjust. Maybe the woman with all those children was losing her cookies. But when I'm losing it, I don't beat my children or not feed them right. I might send them to bed early though. This still bothers me as an adult.
My favorite example of death-related nursery rhymes is "rain go away" It's raining It's pouring The old man is snoring. He bumped his head And he went to bed And he couldn't get up in the morning
0:16 IN MY FRENCH CLASS WE HAVE TO SING THAT TO! PLUS IN MUSIC ASSEMBLY'S TO! I CANT BELIEVE ALL OUR PRINCIPALS ARE OK WITH THIS! 1:03 when I was little and my mom sang this to me I was like "but wouldn't the baby have died?" Lmao
As the world is experiencing the Covid19 pandemic right now, how can we not mention "Ring A Round A Rosie, pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down". The children's nursery rhyme about the great plague. Can you imagine the nursery rhymes that could be written after the corona virus has passed.
I am laughing so hard I’m crying! I do recall trying to read some rhymes to my kids and then stopping because they’re HORRIBLE! 😂 But do you remember the old song “there was an old lady who swallowed a fly… I don’t know why she swallowed a fly… maybe she’ll die…. And so on until the end when you sing “she died of course!”
In my homeland, there are horror nursery rhymes, too. For example, one of the most popular lullabies goes like this "Hush, Little Baby, Do Not Say A Word, Do Not Lie On The Edge Or The Grey Wolfie Will Come And Tear A Piece Out Of Your Side!" One of the most popular songs for children goes like this "One, two, three, four, five, A bunny goes out for a walk. Suddenly a hunter appears And shoots straight at the bunny. Bang bang oh the pain, My dear bunny dies!" I do believe that children material is often written by psychopaths and we can do a favor to our children by committing to a mental ward people who write such material and not reading it to our children.
London bridge’s backstory is in the game! Children were trapped in the bridge to DIE because the builders thought dead bodies made the bridge stronger. It’s in the last part of the game.
Anyone know ring around the Rosie? Song about a illness and people dying. Yet people fall and laugh. Ring around the Rosie, Pockets full of posies ASHES ( the thing we get when our pets sometimes humans die ), ASHES, we all fall down ( die ).
Ring around the Rosie was about the black death. They have changed it since we were kids, but it used to say "We all fall down dead" at the end! Original Fairy Tales were horrible, You don't even want to know how sleeping beauty ended...
I was going to say this one...Now if they go back to the 18th century they get pretty body! They are sung at the taverns in Williamsburg,Va after 10pm! ! You should hear "the hair of her dicky dorey " Lol You should come here to do a history video!!! Please let me know ahead! Songs were sung about the times, good or bad! We should learn from this instead of sheltering!
Stepsbasic's Basic Steps that is so true! All the original fairytales are awful! In Snow White not only did she get poisoned by an apple but she also got strangled by a ribbon!
I wrote a nursery ryme "It's raining it's pouring the old man is snoring, he went you bed with a gun to his head and he didn't wake up in the morning" Written and sung by Sophie Allen
That was great. I never realised there was so much violent in Nursery Rhymes. Penn your Nursery Rhymes were awesome. Move over Mother goose Father goose is here. Keep up the great work. Much love to you all. Thanks for making me laugh.xxxxx
Love you guys!! I'm a nanny so I spend my days singing nursery rhymes and kids songs! I used to love hearing nursery rhymes and reading poem books as a kid. I will never forget hearing, "Ladybird, ladybird," by mother goose. Must have traumatized me a little because well over a decade later and I still remember it😳 Ladybird, ladybird, Fly away home, Your house is on fire And your children all gone; All except one And that's little Ann, And she has crept under The warming pan.
I thought it was ladybug ladybug fly away your house is in fire and your children are gone all except one and that’s little Ann who was hiding under a frying pan
She said, "Rat, rat, gnaw rope. Rope won't hang butcher, Butcher won't kill ox, Ox won't drink water, Water won't quench fire, Fire won't burn stick, Stick won't beat dog, Dog won't bite pig, Pig won't get over the stile, And I can not get home to-night." is part of my favourite!
Reading the original, non- disneyfied, Brothers Grimm's Fairy Tales can also be an eye opener. Then again, those things weren't aimed at kids back then.
I made up a sweet version of rock a bye baby! Rock a bye baby on the tree top when the wind blows the cradle will rock when the bow breaks the cradle will fall but to be saved baby and all.😘
Its raining, its pouring , the old man is snoring he bumped his head and went to bed and (say this part sarcasticly and flatly,) got a concussion and died of complications......
"Alouette": is a child sent out to the chicken pen to bring in the dinner for the farming family. We still send pre-teens and teens out to catch a chicken for dinner, in our Mennonite settlement in OK. Chicken tastes: GOOD!
This is dark... The people who made Humpty Dumpty they did not actually say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg... THAT IS JUST DARK Also my nickname is Jill and I am terrified by Jack and Jill
What about the christmas song. "Rudolph the red nose reindeer, had a very shiny nose, and if you ever saw it, you would even say it glows (now, here's the bit that concerns me). All of the other reindeer's used to laugh and call him names, they never let poor Rudolph play in all their reindeer games. Then one foggy christmas eve, santa came to say, Rudolph with you nose so bright, won't you guide my sleigh tonight? Now all the reindeer love him, and they shout it out with glee, Rudoplh the red nose reindeer, you'll go down in history". So bullying someone for being different is okay but if the boss likes you, everyone else will like you. That's just awful.
A dark song. It’s raining it’s poring the old man is snoring he bumped his head and went to bed and couldn’t wake up in the morning. They play that on the baby channel and I am like whaaaaaaattttttt heee dieeeeeeeedddddddd!
I have thought that about nursery rhymes for a while now, so glad I am not the only one. I love the kids' reaction to the nursery rhymes! This is so funny.
I used to sing a song to my boys when they wanted food. It went like this, “No food for you, there’s no food for you. No tasty treat, nothing to eat, there’s no food for you “
Thank you so much for all of these insane and clever videos. I decided to start my day with things that make me laugh, and you guys and gals are masters of parody.
"Ring around the Rosie" about the bubonic plague is pretty terrifying. I believe a lot of nursery rhymes were written to scare children from doing dangerous things. Really IDK, but possibly.
Hush-a-bye (All the pretty little horses) was my favorite lullaby as a child. Good thing mom never sang the second verse, which I later found out was about a lamb getting his eyes pecked out!! No joke!
What I don't get is that why do people sing this to children, especially ring around the Rosie, I heard it's about the plague and what happened when people had it.
Does anyone know the jump rope song “Lizzie Borden”? It’s violent. It goes- Lizzie Borden took an axe. Gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father 41. It’s real. Google it.
Rock-a-bye-Baby was actually based on a very bad tornado in St. Louis Mo. long ago... a distraught couple found their baby up in a tree, still in it's cradle. Someone then wrote the nursery rhyme/ lullaby
Here's an Indian nursery rhyme *This is translated* The fish is the queen of water Its life is in water Try and touch it, it'll get scared Take it out and it'll die :)
You guys left out soooooo many you could've put in there. For example; Ring Around the Rosie. It's literally about death and funerals. There's also a bunch of other classics that are violent but I'd rather not write them all cause it would take me all day. 😂😂😂
Penn, Have you ever heard the lulaby "All the Pretty Little Horses?" I researched the lyrics because I love horses and the song. It starts out real nice "Hush- a- by, don't you cry, go to sleep my little baby. When you wake you'll have cake and all the pretty little horses. Blacks and bays, dapples and grays, All the Pretty little horses. That's all I can remember because the rest was so horrifying I chose to forget it. I could easily fall asleep to this part but the rest is gross. Basically I remember something about a dead lamb in the meadow with flies crawling on its eyeballs. Seriously, look it up. I looked up several sources and they all had similar lyrics. Gross, how could anyone go to sleep with that image in their head? It disturbed me and I'm a senior adult.
I feel like alot of nursery rhymes could be cautionary tales for children... but also, kids are just morbid lol. My favorite songs to sing to my younger siblings were "The Hearse Song", "Oh Tom the Toad", and "The littlest Worm"...
