Poor birdie...

[kittykatkatja]

Rich and I were at lunch at Red Robin today, where in celebration of somebody's birthday, the Red Robin staff were singing their non-copyrighted version of the birthday song, to the tune of "Alouette", the French song that many of us learned as children without having any idea what it meant. Rich calls it the "Jaunty Alouette" song, and I said I

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[tatterdamelion]

In the same way Ring Around the Rosie is a nice children's song.

Childhood should be for adults-only!

[scearley]

Last time I was in Red Robin, they sang that song four different times.

What makes it worse is that I was in the bar.

[scearley]

I just thought of "Jimmy crack'd corn, and I don't care, my master's gone away."

[catherinew]

That lark was asking for it. Did you see the way it was feathered?

[meandering]

Maybe it came from an old farming song or something related to preparing birds for dinner or something.

[tealfroglette]

nod this is what we learned in kindergarten french class.

[kittykatkatja]

But larks are songbirds! It's like plucking a robin or a canary for food. atlanticat had a good follow-up on that.

[unhipster]

That's fucked up. But then, childrens' stories generally are, so I don't see why songs should be any different.

[unhipster]

Yeah, the original Grimm's fairy tales are totally creepy.

[suntyger]

Grimm's fairy tales are mild compared to Hans Christian Andersen, though. What a creepy, sadistic bastard he must have been..."Once upon a time, a little girl was afraid to go home because she knew her father would beat her, so she huddled in an alley and froze to death. The end."