From Linda’s prompt: Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “a song from your childhood.” Think of a song from your childhood and just write. Have fun!   Tag:  SoCS  

To you young folks who were born listening to “The Little Engine Who Could,” this topic is hard for me.  I can’t remember kids songs.  Yes, I’m that old.  Upon a bit of research, I find that most of that genre were made up of setting music to nursery rhymes, such as Mary Had a Little Lamb.

The Teddy Bears Picnic came in early -1932.  I wonder whether it had political “triggers;” I guess not.  Just a useless thought through my head and out my fingertips.  😀  Thinking Teddy Roosevelt.  He was twenty years before that.

Since I am on political “triggers” I will wander off into more recent unrest over the cute little Zippity Doh Dah.  I understand it is not politically correct now because of it’s connection to the Songs of the South.  I don’t know what punctuation mark to use; all of them suit me,  ! . ?

I just checked Ole King Cole online.  WOW! He has been around more than three hundred years.  Don’t know when he was set to music.  But his fiddlers did a mighty fine job.  😀

I’m not going into the sixties much but that is where my sons were.  I remember one favorite was Run, Rabbit, Run.  A shortened version which we sang was:

Run, Rabbit, Run, Rabbit, run, run, run; Here comes a farmer with his gun, gun, gun;  He’ll get by, without his rabbit pie; so run, rabbit, run rabbit, run, run, run.

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