Yeah. I’m feeling better now. And more confident things will work out just fine things will have to work out fine. No room for negotiations there. ;) Funny though, how three persons can all have a very different unique perspective on the same situation.

And does this child’s song exist in English? It’s about a big, mother fish, who tells it’s 10 little children fishies they may swim to the open sea, but that she won’t follow them, as she prefers to stay in the dirty ditch because in the sea there are giant, evil sharks. One by one, the baby fish swim to the ocean, until only one little fish is left. In the end that one gets eaten too and the count down song ends.

Kean Kelly found the English version:

Four little fishes swimming out to sea,
One met a shark!…
And then there were three.

Three little fishes wondering what to do,
One hid in a great big shell…
And then there were two.

Two little fishes looking for some fun,
One chased after a wave…
And that left one.

One little fish with all his friends gone,
Went back home to find his mum…
And that left none!

Is this it? (and why do we make childsongs/poems this grim?)

And my reply:

Yes, although it seems the English are more inventive with their story. We just repeat the same verse over and over with different numbers. Is there a french version of this song too?

This grin: well, to serve as warning as to listen to the mommy (fish) in case of the dutch song? And because children need other ways to deal with concepts like ‘death’ than adults do, and music is not such a bad medium to bring such things? This is still my favorite childrens sleeping song (although it’s a pop song actually) and the reason why I should not get prim babies *grins*

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