![]() “More Than A Love Song” (inducted November 30) Black Pumas’ third entry Hozier Welcome to the Chart Show Hall of Fame! Hall of Fame 2023 Black Pumas So if you're wondering why you can't vote for your favorite song anymore, or if you just want to take a walk down memory lane and check out some of The Current's favorite songs over the last couple of years, you're in the right place. This, from the perspective of the singing mother, is what happened next.When a song stays on the Chart Show's chart for more than 10 weeks, we retire it from the poll and it enters the very prestigious Chart Show Hall of Fame. This Turkish lullaby comes from a story where a man who wished for a child promised that he would sacrifice three camels if he had a child, but on the way to the sacrifice decided to keep the camels instead. The lesson of the song is finally summed up in the moral, “A person who cannot make use of a crow like this is not worthy of getting a crow.” Listen here. She weighed near sixteen and twenty poundsįrom the pelt he made twelve pair of shoesĪnd the meat he salted in vessels and barrelsĪnd preserved the tongue for the Yule mealįrom the entrails he made twelve pair of ropeĪnd from the eyes he made glass for the hallĪnd the neck he placed on the church for decoration … then he skinned the Crow and cut her in pieces A gory catalog of all the uses he makes out of the carcass follows. ![]() This Norwegian lullaby ballad isn’t directly about a sleeping child and what will happen to them, but about a man who thinks a crow is going to kill him, so he kills it first. In this medley of lullabies by Malaysian singer Zee Avi, the third one, starting at 1:10, goes straight to baby chicks dying. I left my baby lying there, lying there, lying there Your mother’s just going to put you down and lose you. ![]() In Scotland there are no scary creatures to carry you off. There's also this Icelandic classic, which I haven’t been able to find the melody for:įall into a deep pit of ghosts. Listen to the Sigur Rós version with lyrics and translation here. All you know is that it’s lurking, lurking…īeeum, beeum, bambalow, Bambalow and dillidillidow. The one that you don’t even know what it is. Iceland has perhaps the scariest creature of all. If you keep on crying, you'll make me nervous. I am carrying you in a "kawung" batik sling On the Indonesian island of Java there is a scary giant looking for crying children. No, your mother’s going to just give you to them. In Italy, the old hag, the bogeyman, and the white wolf will get you, but not because they’ll drag you off. In Russia, it’s a wolf that’s going to get you off the edge of your bed and drag you off into the woods.ĭon’t lie too close to the edge of the bed Your papa isn’t here, he went to the river, Your mama isn’t here, she went to the market, If you don’t sleep, the crab will eat you. If you don’t sleep, the crab will eat you In Haiti, it’s a crab that’s going to get you while your parents are away. In some countries the Coco is substituted with el Lobo (the wolf), which doesn’t make it any less scary. It warns that if you don’t go to sleep, a shapeshifting monster called the Coco will eat you up. This lullaby is sung in Spain and Latin American in various versions. Papa went to the fields, mama went to work. All the stuff that puts a child right at ease. This Brazilian lullaby invokes Cuca (a crocodile-hag from legends), the idea of parents not being there to protect you, an ox-monster, and a bogeyman called Bicho Papão lurking on the roof. Here are 12 creepy lullabies from around the world that might keep you up at night. Even Rockabye Baby ends with the crack of broken branch as baby plummets to the ground. But if we listen closer to the lyrics of lullabies, they're not all so sweet. ![]() If there’s one image that sums up all the feelings of sweetness and tenderness in the world, it’s a mother singing a lullaby to her baby.
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