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This dark lullaby phenomenon is certainly not limited to the U.S. Parents around the world have lulled their babies to sleep with grim words about menacing monsters or violent circumstances. Below, we’ve rounded up a sample of dark and disturbing lullabies from around the world.
- "Nana nenê" // Brazil
- "Duérmete Niño" // Spanish
- "Bayu Bayushki Bayu" // Russia
- "Ninna Nanna" // Italy
- "Lelo Ledung" // Javanese
- And 8. "Bíum, Bíum, Bambaló" and "Sofðu Nú Svínið Þitt" // Iceland
- "Highland Fairy Lullaby" // Scotland
- "Lima Anak Ayam" // Malaysia
- "Kråkevisa" // Norway
- "Incili Bebek Ninnisi" // Turkey
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. All the stuff that puts a child right at ease. Listen here.
This lullaby is sung in Spain and Latin American in various versions. It warns that if you don’t go to sleep, a shapeshifting monster called the Coco will eat you up. In some countries the Coco is substituted with el Lobo (the wolf), which doesn’t make it any less scary. Listen here.
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. Listen here. More Articles About Nursery Rhymes:
In Italy, the old hag, the bogeyman, and the white wolf will get you, but not because they’ll drag you off. No, your mother’s going to just giveyou to them. Listen here.
On the Indonesian island of Java there is a scary giant looking for crying children. Also, crying will make you ugly. Translation from mamalisa.com; listen here.
Iceland has perhaps the scariest creature of all. The one that you don’t even know what it is. All you know is that it’s lurking, lurking… Listen to the Sigur Rós version with lyrics and translation here. There's also this Icelandic classic, which I haven’t been able to find the melody for: Which translates to
In Scotland there are no scary creatures to carry you off. Your mother’s just going to put you down and lose you. Listen here.
In this medley of lullabies by Malaysian singer Zee Avi, the third one, starting at 1:10, goes straight to baby chicks dying.
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. A gory catalog of all the uses he makes out of the carcass follows. The lesson of the song is finally summed up in the moral, “A person who cannot make use of a crow like thi...
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. This, from the perspective of the singing mother, is what happened next. Full lullaby text and story here. Sweet dreams!
- Arika Okrent
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Weird Lullaby est un album jazz du pianiste et chanteur bebop Babs Gonzales paru en 1992 sur le label Blue Note. L'album est une compilation de 20 titres comprenant la plupart des morceaux enregistrés par Gonzales entre 1947 et 1949.
- Jazz
- 1992
- Michael Cuscuna
Babs Gonzales (vocals)Tadd Dameron (p)Pee Wee Tinney (g)Arthur Phipps (b)Recorded: May 7, 1947.
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- 5,2K
- Joe Milazzo
18 avr. 2019 · Weird Lullaby. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Weird Lullaby · Babs Gonzales Weird Lullaby ℗ A Blue Note Records Release; ℗ 1996 Capitol Records, LLC Released on: 1997-01-01 ...
5 mars 2018 · The lullaby tells the story of two children who are left to fend for themselves in the forest and sometime later, they die alone. It doesn’t sound like a very soothing subject for young children, but it does fit with the theme of using lullabies to warn children not to go out alone.
28 févr. 2018 · The traditional lullaby has stood the test of time as a way of relaxing at bed time, but are we scaring children to sleep? Remove the soothing, melodic tones from lullabies and we are left with some seriously creepy lyrics…
