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- Have you ever sang a song with intentionally altered lyrics so many times you forget the real lyrics? We sing "Psycho Baby, qu'est-ce que c'est*" to Natalie all the time. It is an AWESOME song to sing to babies. They are psycho A LOT, and the rest of the lyrics are useful, too: "Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa**... better run run run run run away." Yesterday I heard the original on the radio and was baffled to hear the original "Killer".
- Natalie loves music - she always has. She's starting to "sing" more and more these days, though there's very little tune to her singing - it's more like spoken word performance. She does, however, like to create lullabyes on her bathtub xylophone. She bangs on a key over and over, hollering "Lullabye! Lullabye!" VERY soothing.
- The other day in the car, Natalie asked for a song but it took me a LONG time to figure out what she wanted. She said, and this is a direct quote/transliteration, "Something ham run away." Can you guess the song?
**I think the French spell it "fha's fha fhasq...".
posted by Jen at
7:54 PM
5 Comments:
I have two nieces who are toddlers, so I speak toddler, I hope. Is she singing "Where is Thumbkin?"
I'm thinking it's the "Here I am, Here I am...then, run away, run away"
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Rhi, at 9:39 PM
Nicely done! She was, indeed, requesting "Where is Thumbkin."
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Cait, at 8:52 AM
Note to self: download and burn cd of Talking Heads "Psycho Killer" for next week's music group. Type up lyrics.
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pookchop, at 6:16 PM
Kate asks for "thumbkin" by holding up her two index fingers, wiggling them and saying "poo poo"...confused us a bit at first...
Qu'est-ce que c'est literally means (French) "what is it that it is?" wordy b---ds, those French...heh.
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Anonymous, at 6:42 PM
Well, at tleast you realized that they were saying "Qu'est-ce que c'est" even if you didn't know how to spell it. Up until now I always thought the lyrics went, "Psycho killer, escapade..." !
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Natalie, at 2:04 PM
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