our little ones to get them to sleep when the song is about putting your baby in a tree and letting the wind crash the cradle to the ground?
Bit Traumatising aint it???
2007-04-24 21:48:04 · 24 answers · asked by ViXoNvEe 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
i know, whats the deal on that
2007-04-24 21:50:09 · answer #1 · answered by rhonda3826 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
our little ones to get them to sleep when the song is about putting your baby in a tree and letting the wind crash the cradle to the ground?
2007-04-24 22:00:10 · answer #2 · answered by Clarissa 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably the same reason that kids sing 'Ring A Ring A Rosie' as that is about the Black Death and when the part with 'A Tissue A Tissue We All Fall Down' is said that was to signify all the people dropping dead. I guess it is just tradition.
Many of the children's nursery rhymes and songs are not exactly politically correct or what you would do with your child. Think of the rhyme As I was going to ST Ives I met a man with seven wives. Imagine that having seven wives. That's illegal in most countries. And think of them keeping those cats and kits in sacks. The R.S.P.C.A would be on to them straight away for cruelty to animals. And what about the old woman in the shoe who whipped her kids soundly and put them to bed.
2007-04-24 21:55:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe, the songs origin was actual a sea shanty.
The crows nest of sailing vessels being referred to also as cradles, and subsequently the lookouts as "babes" or the "Baby" in the nest or cradle.
Still messed up as a lullaby, thats why I always stuck to Gordon Lightfoot's "The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", its still about a shipwreck, but somewhat educational and long enough for my kids to bore themselves to sleep.
2007-04-24 21:55:13 · answer #4 · answered by daughters_a_wookie 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As a lesson! If you are a bad baby, I will put you in a tree! Man, it's a creepy song. I've always thought so.
2016-05-18 02:07:36 · answer #5 · answered by brandon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know...who wrote that song? I remember an episode of the Simpson's when they were singing it to Maggie and she was imagining it in her head. "Down will come baby, cradle and all" lol
2007-04-24 21:57:34 · answer #6 · answered by xoxo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not at all it's in the tone of the voice. I mean you can say the harshest things to it, but if it is in a nice tone it won't mind
2007-04-24 21:51:02 · answer #7 · answered by rayda1009 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, but I agree with you. That song always seemed like a bit of a veiled threat to me...
2007-04-24 21:50:49 · answer #8 · answered by Tut Uncommon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
isnt the song ment to represent life and its good and bad times but having a happy ending or is that something my mum just told me!
2007-04-24 21:52:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's not the only lullaby's that's aggressive! Look at the Afrikaans ones if you have a chance...
2007-04-24 22:02:27 · answer #10 · answered by maverick 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When youve been kept awake for nights on end, i would imagine thats what most parents feel like doing !!! lol
2007-04-24 21:56:11 · answer #11 · answered by SEXY EVERTONIAN 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋