...bear with me!
After singing some nursery rhymes to my young son, I remembered that these are hardly kiddie friendly ditties, rather tales of woe, death and disaster. Hundreds of year old tales of the bubonic plague, tales of an infertile Queen and her unfaithful husband, the downfall of a cardinal 500 years ago, hardly the thing you would have thought would put your kid to sleep!
So, if we were to make some new ones for the 21st generation, to be sung to innocent children in the 23rd and 24th centuries, what would the go like? Carte blanche time, bestow me your new nursery rhymes to reflect the current climate (and remember that most nursery rhymes have hidden meaning).
I'll go first (sorry about this, I'm not saying I'm any good, but some of you might be!)
(to the tune of Jack and Jill)
Jack and Chantelle went down the club,
to fetch a wrap of charlie,
Jack scored,
Chantelle got bored,
and ended up roasted by footballers.
After singing some nursery rhymes to my young son, I remembered that these are hardly kiddie friendly ditties, rather tales of woe, death and disaster. Hundreds of year old tales of the bubonic plague, tales of an infertile Queen and her unfaithful husband, the downfall of a cardinal 500 years ago, hardly the thing you would have thought would put your kid to sleep!
So, if we were to make some new ones for the 21st generation, to be sung to innocent children in the 23rd and 24th centuries, what would the go like? Carte blanche time, bestow me your new nursery rhymes to reflect the current climate (and remember that most nursery rhymes have hidden meaning).
I'll go first (sorry about this, I'm not saying I'm any good, but some of you might be!)
(to the tune of Jack and Jill)
Jack and Chantelle went down the club,
to fetch a wrap of charlie,
Jack scored,
Chantelle got bored,
and ended up roasted by footballers.
