i know this is an old joke...

... but what crazy weirdo thought that this would make a good nursery rhyme!?


Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top,
when the wind blows, the cradle will rock.
When the bow breaks the cradle will fall,
and down will come baby, cradle and all.


you have to be kidding me! and people sing this to their children to coax them to sleep?! relax and go to bed while you dream of falling from a tree?! what the heck is a baby doing up in a tree?!

if there is any logical, social-politcal reason behind this song, PLEASE tell me.

even something like, "it was created in the time of the black plague, so it was safer for children to be in high places to avoid the germs, but the hopelessness and despair of the time and the dreary, pessimistic situation made people succumb to the futility of their actions which led them to believe that death was unavoidable, even for the sweetest and most innocent of God's children." will do fine to bridge this gap of complete idiocy and appropriateness!

good day!