The Horror, The Horror…of Traditional Children's Songs
by Tommy Paley
Published in
5 min readJun 5, 2019
Parents have been singing traditional children’s songs to their little ones for generations to cheer them up, to calm them and to ease them into a deep sleep (one can hope).
We love these songs, we cherish them, and we quietly sing the lyrics of these songs even as an adult male in our mid-40s when gazing off into the…