Have you ever sat down and really listened through the lyrics of the many songs we often sing to little children? Just like the original, pre-Disney fairytales are a lot darker than the sanitized modern renditions, old lullabies, and children’s stories tend to often seem a bit morbid.
A man asked the internet if he was a jerk for singing an “inappropriate” lullaby when he was babysitting his niece. He wrote out the lullaby in full for netizens to judge and people had a lively discussion, sharing other “inappropriate” kids’ songs and their own ideas for lulling a very young child to sleep.
