Hellobee Boards Topic: Children's songs with questionable lyrics

Hellobee Boards Topic: Children's songs with questionable lyrics https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 04 May 2026 04:08:55 +0000 78h2o on "Children's songs with questionable lyrics" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childrens-songs-with-questionable-lyrics#post-665832 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:06:35 +0000 78h2o 665832@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @mrsjazz: I have a different one: "123 Favorite Kids Songs" <a href="http://www.amazon.com/123-Favorite-Kids-Songs-1-3/dp/B00069FL4A/ref=dp_return_1?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/123-Favorite-Kids-Songs-1-3/dp/B00069FL4A/ref=dp_return_1?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music</a> but it has both Lazy Mary and Bill Bailey on it. I haven't listened to Bill Bailey yet... based on the lyrics, it totally does not sound like a kids song!! The lazy mary one is odd... she back talks and won't get up for breakfast or anything unless mom produces a man?!? "A nice young man with rosy cheeks, With rosy cheeks, with rosy cheeks! A nice young man with rosy cheeks, So early in the morning. Then, dear Mother, I will get up, I will get up, I will get up. Then, dear Mother, I will get up, So early in the morning." I actually like this set of cd's, just find some of the songs humerous! Boheme on "Children's songs with questionable lyrics" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childrens-songs-with-questionable-lyrics#post-665821 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:04:17 +0000 Boheme 665821@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I've heard the full version of "You Are My Sunshine" and can't ever get it out of my head... Its so creepy! Honeybee on "Children's songs with questionable lyrics" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childrens-songs-with-questionable-lyrics#post-665801 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:59:06 +0000 Honeybee 665801@https://boards.hellobee.com/ There's a song on one of DD's toddler cds with lyrics like: "Oh I wish I were a bar of soap, for I'd slipey and I'd slidey over everybody's hiney."/"Oh I wish I were a little English fellow, for I'd sit on the steeple and piddy on the people."/ "Oh I wish I were a little mosquito for I'd nippy and I'd bitey under everybody's nightie." I figure it's all in good fun, and I know I loved singing inappropriate songs as a kid ("Jingle bells, Batman smells...") so I don't worry about it too much. :) swurlygurl on "Children's songs with questionable lyrics" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childrens-songs-with-questionable-lyrics#post-665777 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:51:25 +0000 swurlygurl 665777@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I've always wondered about Rock-a-bye-baby... why are we singing a song about a baby falling out of a tree??? Chillybear on "Children's songs with questionable lyrics" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childrens-songs-with-questionable-lyrics#post-665776 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:51:14 +0000 Chillybear 665776@https://boards.hellobee.com/ my favorite song as a child was Rocky Racoon by the beatles def not so kid appropriate when i listened to it as i got older. i guess i liked actually imagining it was about racoons and the way it rhymed sorrycharlie on "Children's songs with questionable lyrics" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childrens-songs-with-questionable-lyrics#post-665760 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:48:00 +0000 sorrycharlie 665760@https://boards.hellobee.com/ hahaha giggling out loud. anyone ever listen to "toddler tunes" on the tv? some of the songs are hilarious. there is one that literally sings, "great. big. poop!" over and over. mrsjazz on "Children's songs with questionable lyrics" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childrens-songs-with-questionable-lyrics#post-665747 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:45:40 +0000 mrsjazz 665747@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @78h2o: we have a 10-cd disc set from Little Genius and I've only downloaded the first disc and was amazed at the songs. Billy Boy is on there, I was singing along one day and realized what I was singing...why is he trying to marry a young thing that cannot leave her mother, but can make a cherry pie? Yuck. Also on this first disc is Lazy Mary (the kid doesn't want to get up and is talking back to her mother) and Bill Bailey (is Bill Bailey even a children's song???" "Won't you come home, Bill Bailey, won't you come home I've moaned the whole night long I'll do the cookin', honey, I'll pay the rent I know I done you wrong" "You remember that rainy evenin' I threw you out....with nothin' but a fine tooth comb Ya, I know I'm to blame, now... ain't it a shame Bill Bailey, won't you please come home" T-Mom on "Children's songs with questionable lyrics" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childrens-songs-with-questionable-lyrics#post-665728 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:41:48 +0000 T-Mom 665728@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Haha, I think I may have the same CD as you, because I have the same songs with all the verses and I agree they are suspect! I usually skip Found a Peanut and a couple of others.. 78h2o on "Children's songs with questionable lyrics" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childrens-songs-with-questionable-lyrics#post-665654 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:18:10 +0000 78h2o 665654@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I was listening to a cd in the car with LO this morning and I felt like half the songs had suspect lyrics... I think the abridged versions on the cd made things worse (upon googling, it appears other versions have somewhat redemptive verses, like in the peanut song the whole thing was a dream - but not on my cd, lol). Billy Boy "Oh, where have you been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? Oh, where have you been, Charming Billy? I have been to seek a wife, She's the joy of my life, She's a young thing And cannot leave her mother. Did she ask you to come in, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? Did she ask you to come in, Charming Billy? Yes, she asked me to come in, There's a dimple in her chin. She's a young thing And cannot leave her mother. Can she make a cherry pie, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? Can she make a cherry pie, Charming Billy? She can make a cherry pie, Quick as a cat can wink an eye, She's a young thing And cannot leave her mother." Ok... this sounds to me like a song about a pedofile. Then there was the peanut song, which is kinda scary! You eat a rotten peanut and die?! Found a Peanut Lyrics (To The Tune Of: Clementine) Found a peanut, found a peanut, Found a peanut just now, Just now I found a peanut, Found a peanut just now. Cracked it open, cracked it open, Cracked it open just now, Just now I cracked it open, Cracked it open just now. It was rotten, it was rotten, It was rotten just now, Just now it was rotten, It was rotten just now. Ate it anyway, ate it anyway, Ate it anyway just now, Just now I ate it anyway, Ate it anyway just now. Got a stomach ache, got a stomach ache, Got a stomach ache just now, Just now I got a stomach ache, Got a stomach ache just now. Called the doctor, called the doctor, Called the doctor just now, Just now I called the doctor, Called the doctor just now. Penicillin, Penicillin, Penicillin just now, Just now I took Penicillin, Penicillin just now. Operation, operation, Operation just now, Just now an operation, An operation just now. Died anyway, died anyway, Died anyway just now, Just now I died anyway, Died anyway just now. Went to heaven, went to heaven, Went to heaven just now, Just now I went to heaven, Went to heaven just now." (Ok, I get how a toddler could have fun over-acting this song, but it seemed a little wrong to be singing it to a baby)! "The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" is kinda like that too! Then, "Three Blind Mice," is just mean! "Three blind mice! Three blind mice! See how they run! See how they run! They all ran after the farmer’s wife, who cuts off their tails with a carving knife! Did you ever see such a thing in you life, as three blind mice!" Then of course, there was Rock-A-Bye-Baby and we all know how that ends. Are there any children's songs that you find creepy?!