I'm working on some flash elements for a website. I've been especally searching today for a peice of music that I know I've heard in countless cartoons, mostly Looney Toons and the majority of the time being used during Sunrises. I've tracked it down to a movement that very well might contain it, I just have to wait till it's done downloading to see. If it is, I'll pop it up here so you can revel in the peice of music that's been bugging me all day long.


In a few minutes I'm going to head off so I can take care of some LKP stuff. I have music to make copies of and things like that. While we're on the subject of music, especally childrens music, I have stumbled upon something that makes me very sad. I've noticed with all the childrens music I've been exposed to lately, that the lyrics of songs that I used to sing as a child (good, wholesome, meaningful songs) have been changed to be 'politicly correct' or 'less abrasive'. For example:


Little Bunny Foo Foo Hoppin' Through The Forest

Scoopin' Up The Feild Mice And Boppin' `Em On The Head

Down Came The Good Fairy And She Said:

Little Bunny Foo Foo I Don't Want To See You

Scoopin' Up The Field Mice And Boppin' `Em On The Head

I'll Give You Three Chances, And If You Don't Behave, I'll Turn You Into a Goon....



'Little Bunny Foo Foo' is an awesome, silly, wiggle kids song that has a good message. The Bunny (for those of you who aren't familiar with kids songs) dosen't behave and in the end gets turned into a Goon. There are all sorts of morals that can be taken from the song, becides 'Hare Today, Goon Tomorrow', especally the importance of being nice to others. Of course, the fact that Foo is bopping upsets tender parents so much, that they changed it to:


Little Bunny Foo Foo Hoppin' Through The Forest

Scoopin' Up The Feild Mice And Kissin' `Em On The Head

Down Came The Good Fairy And She Said:

Little Bunny Foo Foo I Don't Want To See You

Scoopin' Up The Field Mice And Kissin' `Em On The Head

I'll Give You Three Chances, And If You Don't Behave, I'll Turn You Into a Goon....



Kissing? Oh my god, Clarence, that rabbit is kissing strange feild mice!!! Hurry! Do something! It's a subtle change, but it totally throws off the whole meaning of the song, nobody gets in trouble for kissing people (unless you live in the grown up world and it's your boss) but on a kids level, it dosen't really happen. Think I'm being silly? There's more, lyrics have been changed for 'I Know An Old Woman'. Changing from, perhaps she'll die and dying to everything from she went to the doctor and got fixed to she got a tummy ache. Lyrics for 'Bringing Home A Baby Bumble Bee', totally wiping out the second (I'm squishing) and third (I'm wiping up) verses and just sticking to the first one repeated over and over. Lyrics from 'Found A Peanut', removing some of the middle verses (Went To Heaven, Didn't Want Me, Went The Other Way, Didn't Want Me) and changing the ending in a few versions. I've noticed a few other changes in other songs (The Cat Came Back, Nobody Likes Me, Ants Go Marching, ect) and I just think it's goofy. First, it removes any morals that the songs have by removing things that might not be P.C., but it also takes away from their original neatness and fun sing-along-ness. Plus, it messes up the songs people my age (and older) remember from their childhoods, which is just mean.


I've noticed that cartoons and other things have changed too, we opt for more sex and more violence, and that's all ok but God forbid someone puts a graphic that would have been perfectly fine on a game board years ago (IE: a child getting spanked or a child smoking, which can be found on one of the first 'Chutes and Ladders' gameboard.) on a game these days, yet you can find people blowing away other people and walking in their blood. I just find it interesting that we swap one set of weird standards for a whole new set of weird standards.


Anyway, I'm not going to use watered down nice-nice silly songs for the kids, I'm going to teach them the good old fasioned silly songs where people attempt to blow up cats, women eat horses and die, and little bunnies named Foo get turned into Goons for bopping the silly field mice.