tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7339768093089190228.post4771280489178674854..comments2024-02-23T04:47:53.760-05:00Comments on Smother Goose: "Babes in the Wood"Smother Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13186530202391136732noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7339768093089190228.post-55369410100763323892017-08-30T03:47:05.806-04:002017-08-30T03:47:05.806-04:00I don't know about the book, but when I was ve...I don't know about the book, but when I was very young my mother and grandmother sang me a song with these words as a lullaby. Happily I didn't understand the words so I didn't find it traumatic.Bluebirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04080281485113116704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7339768093089190228.post-24895917290100657992016-09-28T01:33:55.343-04:002016-09-28T01:33:55.343-04:00I swear I had a book when I was young that had thi...I swear I had a book when I was young that had this story in it, do you have any idea which book it was?... it was this version:<br />My dear, do you know,<br />How a long time ago,<br />Two poor little children,<br />Whose names I don't know,<br />Were stolen away on a fine summer's day,<br />And left in a wood, as I've heard people say.<br />And when it was night,<br />So sad was their plight!<br />The sun it went down,<br />And the moon gave no light!<br />They sobbed and they sighed, and they bitterly cried<br />And the poor little things, they lay down and died.<br />And when they were dead,<br />The robins so red,<br />Brought strawberry-leaves<br />And over them spread;<br />And all the day long,<br />They sung them this song:<br />"Poor babes in the wood! Poor babes in the wood!<br />Oh don't you remember the babes in the wood?"Serenity the Holistic Mystichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11800523854425671425noreply@blogger.com