For example......
Rock a bye baby in the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock, when the bow breaks the cradle will fall and down wil go baby cradle and all....
2007-06-29 02:05:04 · 12 answers · asked by danni_elle 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Not sure if this qualifies as a nursery rhyme but...
I remember in the 1st grade they made us read about the old lady that swallowed a fly. I don't know why she swallowed a fly. I guess she'll die.
I was terrified of flies as a kid.
2007-06-29 02:08:55 · answer #1 · answered by michael the MST addict. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nursery ryhmes go back hundreds of years. Many were populist ways of passing judgement on government, policies, the monarchies and dealing with the increadible losses of the plague.
Nursery rhymes provided the masses with a way to express them selves with plausible deniability, after all those were not free and democrat times, making fun of the king or church was a conspiracy or heretic activity, both punishable by death.
Apparently scaring kids then was as popular as having the TV do is today. Ever seen Harry Potter.
2007-06-29 09:24:28 · answer #2 · answered by btceng64 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amen. oh yeah, id love to hear im gonna fall out of a tree and hit the ground every night!! Wooo!
2007-06-29 09:07:54 · answer #3 · answered by Amanda 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I read they were mother's way of releasing the anger and stress caused by a colicky or screaming baby "way back when". But yea, some are just awful!
2007-06-29 09:08:48 · answer #4 · answered by bina64davis 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always thought they were evil. I use to sing to my son (he is 25 now) but back when he was young. I made up my own beautiful songs. I never sang nursery rhymes to him. When he got older he wanted to hear them. I sang them to him then and he even said they were so evil. Never could understand that.
2007-06-29 09:09:34 · answer #5 · answered by Lynn M 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Agreed!
2007-06-29 09:07:02 · answer #6 · answered by Ron B. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that's cute, it doesn't say the baby gets hurt
2007-06-29 09:08:05 · answer #7 · answered by Olivia M 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree my mom was just talking about that one
2007-06-29 09:07:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if ur a baby, what do u care what words r said, u dont understand them at that age.
2007-06-29 09:10:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'd say thats pretty scary once you really think about it.
2007-06-29 09:08:42 · answer #10 · answered by Ellura19 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋