song for children

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[isto é bom]
It has a certain queasy charm.
I've had it in my head all day. Catchy.
To be sung to the tune of...?
[isto é bom]

It puts me in mind of Dryden:

Mark how the lark and linnet sing,
With rival Notes,
They strain their warbling Throats
To welcome in the Spring.

From Ode on the Death of Henry Purcell.

Like a collaboration between Dryden and Neil Gaiman.
...or just Alouette.

A Croatian buddy of mine told me this nursery rhyme :

Milovane, rece mati
Danas cemo zeku klati;
Debeo je, nesto stenje
Prispio je za pecenje.

Which of course translates as :

Little Milovan, said mother
Today we shall slaughter the rabbit;
He is fat, and grunts somewhat
It is time that he were baked.

Tartlet, it's true your grunting rabbit has potential; but it lacks the power of several thousand children intoning it every day, blissfully aware of it's Ozzy overtones.

It does so put me in mind of something that might be sung to Failure, possibly by that gecko.

Yarbling, I'm pleased that you were so moved by it. Dryden, Gaiman and possibly Monty Python.

It resonates Ivor Cutler for me.
I can't help worrying that the lark's head will get cold.
Better would be:

I'm going to pluck your head,
I'm going to pluck your head
Then buy you a hat.

Hello? Hello?

[tumbleweed .....]

Tumbleweed. Are you making a comment about my hair? I confess the resemblance is uncanny, but it's still wude!

(Hi Mikch! I ate the lark. It's not cold any longer).

Tcha. As if I would ...

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