Depressing/disturbing kids songs

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
i dont know why she swallowed a fly.
Perhaps she'll die.

I actually read an article about this a while back, it was famous children's songs with horrific origins. I remember these two:

London Bridge - starving children to death
Jimmy Crack Corn - dude falls off a horse and dies, let's drink!

One of the greatest joys in life is growing up and hearing songs you sang as a kid and realizing you had NO IDEA what was actually happening!

My dad also used to sing "wildfire" to me as a child.
Girls horse breaks out of a stall.
girl chases horse into an "early snow".
Girl and horse freeze to death.
Hoot owl outside window foretells death of singer.
Girl and singer ride into the afterlife on Wildfire.

Yeah there is some well freaky kids songs out there. But they have been around forever and I don't hear any animal abuser / serial killer using them as a reason as to why they do it.

I personally find it stranger to see my 4 and 6 year old sons dancing around the room, wiggling their hips and singing "I'm sexy and I know it!"

My son is 5. he just wants to listen to AC/DC, The Animals, The Turtles and The Who.

ring around the rosie, which is apparently about the bubonic plague.

http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.asp

There was a song we used to sing in Brownies which was about a parachute accident? I'm trying to recall the lyrics. All I can remember is 'they scraped him off the tarmac'. XD

to the tune of "mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord"

he jumped without a parachute from 40,000 feet
he jumped without a parachute from 40,000 feet
he jumped without a parachute from 40,000 feet
and he ain't gonna jump no more

glory, glory what a hell of a way to die
glory, glory what a hell of a way to die
glory, glory what a hell of a way to die
and he ain't gonna jump no more

2nd verse: he landed on the tarmac like a lump of strawberry jam (x 3, the rest as above)

3rd verse: they scraped him off the tarmac and ??????

4th verse: they put him in a little box and sent him home to mum

5th verse: they spread him on their butties and they ate him up for tea

(butties = northern British English for sandwiches/bread, tea = evening meal)


2nd and 3rd verse I think may not be quite right, it might be "they scraped him off the tarmac like a lump of strawberry jam" and 2nd verse was something different

Used to sing all kinds of songs like this in the girl guides. Another one....

ten sticks of dynamite hanging on the wall
ten sticks of dynamite hanging on the wall
and if one stick of dynamite should accidentally fall
there'll be no sticks of dynamite and no bl**dy wall


And one song we sang in the girl guides was so bad that at one guide and scout camp, the scouts complained about our guide company (I think that was a slightly modified version of a song we sang, i.e. not the version taught buy our guider, but one that we girls altered a bit to sing about parts of the male anatomy....)

Oh yea? How about kidz bop? lol- Anything through Kidz bop disturbs me- Imagine hearing a chorus of children sing- baby hit me one more time- or party like a rockstar by hollywood undead... or Tik Tok- by Ke$ha. Disgusting as well. There are a plethora of songs on there that make are super disturbing.

Oh and Ring around the rosey- signs for the plague. Jack and jill? About children being injured and cracking their skulls open (originally referring to King Henry and the beheading of all his wives) Rock a by baby? About a baby being hung from a tree in a cradle swaying in the wind- until the wind snaps the branch and the baby falls to who knows what fate. Apparently death. Hush Little Baby? Bribery to make the child shut up- Three blind mice? About a woman getting crazed and attempting to kill blind mice. Black bird/Six pence song? About baking 6 and 20 LIVE blackbirds in a pie- and upon cutting into it and them still being alive- if that isnt gruesome.

There are tons more...
Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard,
To give the poor dog a bone;
When she came there,
The cupboard was bare,
And so the poor dog had none.

She went to the baker's
To buy him some bread;
When she came back
The dog was dead!

Isn't 'Ring around the rosies' about the Black Plague or something..?