today at the library i checked out a cd of kiddie music.kiddie music, you should know, drives me crazy.
but the camp songs i've been singing to t2 are getting kind of old and so are the storytime songs we've learned. if i sing the 5 little duck song one more time my head is going to spin around and pop off.
sense you brought up excorism, i'm also out of church hymns and christmas music.
so i got a disc of 30 Silly Songs, including my personal faves 'apples and bananas' and 'git along little doggies.' this disc isn't to listen to on a regular basis, mind you. that would be suicidal. it's little children singing, which in the flesh is cute and endearing but recorded & over-mastered in a studio is bloody, 70-knife wounds to the face murder.
it's just to bulk up my music library so i have some fresh diddies to improvise and add my own special lyrics to as i see fit.
some songs, however, are so close to perfection i dare not mess with them.
songs like 'weenie man.'
it's my new favorite. it goes like this:
i know a weenie man,
he owns a weenie stand,
he sells most anything,
from hot dogs on down, oh baby.
someday i'll change his life,
i'll be his weenie wife.
hot dog! i love that weenie ma-a-an!
i also like 'fuzzy wuzzy,' mainly because of this very to-the-point verse:
iddy biddy was a mouse.
iddy biddy had no spouse.
iddy biddy wasn't pretty.
no, by gosh, it was a pity.
step back, shakespeare.
while at the library i also did my usual run-through of the nonfiction section.
here are some titles i considered checking out and scattering around the house:
'why i jumped': my true story of postpartum depression, dramatic rescue & return to hope'
'the amazing book of mazes'
'Gay life and culture : a world history'
'born in the USA : how a broken maternity system must be fixed to put mothers and infants first'
'am-BITCH-ous : learn to be her now'
7 comments:
did you hear the story this morning on the Good Morning Show about what they are referring to as the "mommy tax"? basically points out that women are losing about $1 million in social security, fringe benefits, pensions, etc. from leaving the workforce to be mothers. yeesh! somehow it doesn't seem quite fair does it? hopefully this might spark some new crazy congressional debates on taxes!
Here's some of my favs for kid music- check out Dan Zanes
and my new favorite kid CD is called "gather round"- complete with Sarah Maclachlan singing rainbow connection.... Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, etc. Great album! My mom bought it at Starbucks.
If you're going to succumb to the world of kid music, you may as well learn to love it too!
we bought They Might Be Giants kid's cd called No (at least i think that's the album title) for my cousin thinking we were very hip. I actually haven't heard it myself but everytime I hear Birdhouse in my Soul on the radio I think I gotta get me some TMBG!
are those bulldozers on t2's shoes? awesome!
I highly recommend introducing Jimmy Buffett as soon as possible. Anna knows all the words to the classics. She's the coolest kid in Kindergarten. And Jimmy won't make you want to beat small animals after listening to it 8 times in a row.
Hope all is well!
agree with Pie...Mary learned all the words to all the 50's music and was considered to be ahead of her time...of course it helped that she had an ancient mother..but at least we could sing along....and all the words to Flashdance...remember?
Catherine - you have more sense than to listen to small voices singing silly songs ----- teach him the ones he needs for his SATs and then move on to something real --- R&R, R&B, bluegrass --whatever you like to listen to. And when you start reading to him....well, I always picked the book by the artist.
cta
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