Views : 112,116
Genre: People & Blogs
Date of upload: Jan 1, 2012 ^^
Rating : 4.817 (43/899 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2022-01-25T03:24:46.328275Z
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There is another verse following the first verse, which carries a devastating social message -- "In the meadow there's a lambie, go to sleepy, little baby, birds and bees and butterflies pecking out its little eyes, poor little thing calls 'Mammy' ". The two verses are in stark contrast with each other. Decipher and decode the message -- the singer is a black woman, slave or servant, taking care of a privileged white baby. The white baby has all the wonderful things of life. The lambie in the meadow is the woman's own child, the child she wants to take care of, the child who languishes without her. It is a song of grief. This cleaned-up, sentimental version does a great disservice to those who value the truth within songs of a people. The singing is lovely, the message is bowdlerized. WTF....
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I heard this song was originally written by a slave girl who was raped and her baby taken away from her, and thrown away to die where birds and insects picks at her eyes while she is crying for her mother. Meanwhile the slave girl is forced to breastfeed and tend her master's daughter, who will likely grow up spoiled with cakes and pretty little horses. But then they cut out the part where she mourns about her dying baby and make it into a cute nursery rhyme. Convenient isn't it?
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@YourRoad2Awe
8 years ago
My daughter sings this to me and it is the nicest thing anyone has done for me...
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