Hopes and Wishes

Some days, like today, I'm more lazy than I normally am. Or running behind. Or both. I skipped out on my shower this morning. And I neglected to make myself a lunch. I have something that I can eat but it isn't any good.

It would be nice if there was some service at the school every day that takes teachers' lunch orders and goes and picks it up. Or businesses would have a representative that would deliver. Yeah, that'd be nice.

Last night or the night before, I sang some songs to get Ivy to calm down and go to sleep. I pulled out one of the lullabies my mother passed down to me. She heard it from her grandmother. It's an old song. And apparently, lullabies happen to be sad. I remember when I was young and hearing this song, it made me cry. And that's the exact same thing that happened with Ivy.

I'd heard three lyrics and one year, I found a 'new' or unfamiliar second lyric. So here's the lullaby.

Oh do you remember a long time ago poor babes in the wood, whose names I don't know, They were stolen away, on a bright sunny day. And left in the woods, I heard people say Among the trees, beneath the blue sky They picked bright flowers and watched the birds fly; Then on blackberries fed, and strawberries red, And when they were weary "We'll go home,' they said. When it was night, wo sad was their plight, The sun it went down, and the moon gave no light! They sobbed and they sighed and they bitterly cried Poor babes in the woods, they lay down and died. And when they were dead, the robins so red, took strawberry leaves and over them spread And sang them a song, the whole night long Poor babes in the wood, poor babes in the wood.