The other day, I was singing to Eva at bedtime

[conuly]

and she complained that "all your songs are morbid". This is manifestly untrue, and to prove it I reached into my mind for a preschool song. Not the one about the ducks, it makes Eva cry, so... okay, the one with the green and speckled frogs.

Nothing doing. Apparently that song is about the evils of peer pressure. It took me five minutes to stop laughing.

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[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

??? They can't ALL be morbid! Do you know Open, Shut Them, or Dance To Your Daddy, or Apples And Bananas, or Jump Jim-Along Josie, or The Ground-Gopher's Hole, or Amazing Beautiful Creatures Dancing...?

.... sheesh, there's tons of them. Admittedly, many of Shel Silverstein's characters seem to meet a sticky end.

One of my small pupils once had a major melt-down about Five Little Monkeys. I've never sung it in a classroom again, because yeah, it IS morbid and distressing when you think about it.

Hugs to you and your amazing beautiful nieces!

[conuly]

Well, admittedly, my repertoire does tend more to The Cruel Sister, The Demon Lover, and Barbara Allen than nursery songs.

But even those aren't all morbid.