Creepy Kid Mantras
Posted by Melissa Carter at 7/28/2010 6:00 AM 
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Tags: lullaby kid Bert Show Melissa
While hanging out in Nashville last weekend with my family, we sat around the kitchen table playing Scrabble. My sneaky mother tried to play an incorrectly spelled word, and I reacted like a kid by saying, "cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater."
That started a discussion of all those poems and lullabys we learned as kids, and the conclusion we made is that most of them were pretty creepy. Here are a few examples:
Cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater. Had a wife and couldn't keep her. So he put her in a pumpkin shell, and there he kept her very well.
Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.
Rock-a-bye baby on a tree top. When the wind blows the cradle will rock. When the bow breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all.
Huh? As an adult looking back at these, I'm shocked I didn't turn out shell-shocked.
So next time those DVDs of Barney, Einstein, or Dora get on your nerves, at least know their lyrics don't mention kidnapping or dying.
It's "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater".... It's alliteration, see
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You should check out the lyrics to that perennial favorite, "You Are My Sunshine".
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