I just want to be a sheep, bah bah bah bah Options

[Retrogressive]

A memory just ran through my head of childhood songs I used to learn in Sunday school. I know that this song has a message, but in retrospect the lyrics seem... I do I put this? Slightly off....

I just want to be a sheep, Baa, Baa, Baa, Baa,
I just want to be a sheep, Baa, Baa, Baa, Baa,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep,
I just want to be a sheep, Baa, Baa, Baa, Baa.

I don't want to be a Pharisee, I don't want to be a Pharisee,
Cause they're not fair, you see. I don't want to be a Pharisee.

I don't want to be a Sadducee, I don't want to be a Sadducee,
Cause they're so sad, you see. I don't want to be a Sadducee.

Here is one my grandmother used to sing to me. It deeply disturbed me for a long time.

Oh, don't you remember, a long time ago,
Those two little babies, their names I don't know
They were stolen away one bright, summer's day
And left in a wood, so I've heard folks say.

Pretty babes in the wood
Pretty babes in the wood
Oh, don't you remember
Those babes in the wood

Now the day being gone and the night coming on
Those two little babies sat under a stone
They sobbed and they sighed, they sat there and cried
Those two little babies they laid down and died

Now the robins so red, how swiftly they sped
They put out their wide wings and over them spread
And all the day long on the branches they throng
They sweetly did whistle and this was their song

That's one fucked up thing to sing to a five year old.
Do you remember any childhood songs? Did they have any effect on you?

[marzipan]

nope. no childhood songs. my parents didn't sing to me.

that song about the babies is strange.

"they sobbed and they sighed, they sat there and cried
those two little babies they laid down and died"

[Retrogressive]

I guess it was because....my grandmother was a yankee? I honestly don't have any excuse for her. She didn't ever like me when I was growing up. (This is my grandmother on my father's side.) I haven't seen her in almost ten years, but she did a lot of things that were "off".

[ghjgfkgfk]

i dont have any songs but my old neighbors had a really large black lab that i was afraid of and i would nightmares everytime i slept in my puppy blankets

oh this also reminds of a conan episode w/ colbert guy and he got up and started singing chruch songs lol

[*This Confession*]

my parents didn't sing to me either
I didn't go to church when i was little either..

I remember one thing from church that i had to sing with toddlers when i use to help teach the class though..or well I remember part of it.

[kimmytree]

Noooooooooooo! Stop!

That's one f**ked up thing to sing to a five year old.

Its even more screwed up for high school students to have to sing it EVERY FRIGGIN DAY at school.

I dont want to be a sheep.

[Simba]

No. I don't really remember and childhood songs that really affected me.

[jue]

My parents never sang to me when i was kid.
The song about the babies was weird.

[*Shinji_Mimura*]

I forgot the first line, but the others were:

One night as I lay down sleeping
my sister by my side.
I heard a voice from heaven
saying my mother died.

So children obey your mother.
Obey them faithfully.
For if you lose your mother
you lose the best of all.

Yeah, my mom sang that to me lots of times.

[Mr. Slowjamz]

Dandansoy ,my dad used to sing this everynight .

Dandansoy inom tuba, Laloy;
Dili ako inom tuba pait aslom.

Ang tuba sa baybay, patente moangay;
Talaksan nga dyutay, puno ang malaway.


Translation:

Dandansoy, drink some tuba, Buddy;
No, I won't drink at all, tuba is bitter-sour.

Tuba sold on the shore ought to get a patent,
For a little glass of it will make you drool.

[*ECD & C0*]

not really

[hunterxhollywood]

Uh not really

[*Libertie*]

oh this also reminds of a conan episode w/ colbert guy and he got up and started singing chruch songs lol

I just saw that one the other day. Good episode.

My dad used to sing to me all the time.. he wrote music and played the guitar, so it was always something different. Sometimes he'd just be playing and making words and melody up as he went along. I remember he'd always do it to get my brother and I to fall asleep, but it didn't work on me because I didn't want to miss anything. I like to say that by doing that he taught me how to sing.

[jackizzle]

The only song I remeber is one that my dad used to sing to me before I went to sleep. I think it was called "Vera Jacka" ( kind of pronouced like it looks...) It's German I think but I don't quite remember the whole thing.

[sadolakced acid]

mmm.

nursery rhymes are all messed up.

but that's what's great about them.

i liked the second one, by the way.

[pinacoolada]

no..my mom usually sang sad love songs to me..I guess it helped me fall asleep.. = ]

[*ECD & C0*]

^-- whatever works

[SarahxJoy]

There aren't really any childhood songs that I can recall, but I know there's this one lullaby my mom made up for when my older brother was born. It doesn't have any words, it's just humming basically, but it's really nice and I use it to help my little brother fall asleep all the time.

I'll hum it to my kids someday.

[talcumpowder]

My granmother used to make me sing church songs! She still does... -.-U Perhaps that's why I dislike church so much to the point where I only go one week a year? For free food, of course. VBS =

Other than that... The Perry Mason theme music. Haha... I used to be so excited when Perry Mason would come on!

[*StanleyThePanda*]

Well, The sheep one isnt really messed up, Because in the Bible they use sheep as an example, and say that Jesus is the shepard.
So it makes sense...

and I do remember that song from sunday school.
I knew a lot of songs like that when I was little, childhood songs = Awesome.

[justdecent]

I like how the religion was subtely thrown in there.

[xlilaznchickx]

my parents never sang to me...

[ItsAMansWorld]

i'll shave you.. you sheep!

[*lolita kitty*]

My mom used to always sing this one to me:

Oooooh, I had a little chicky and she wouldn't lay an egg.
So I poured hot water all over her head!
And the little chicky cryed and the little chicky begged.
And the little chicky layed me a hard boiled egg!