My Favorite Things

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things

 Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things

 Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite things

When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I’m feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don’t feel so bad

When it rains, songs would play in my mind. Well, I thought about a lot of things when I got nothing much to do. But childhood memories are fun to linger and saunter on sometimes.  Rain and childhood memories remind me of the song My Favorite Things from the movie The Sound of Music. Julie Andrews’ 1965 movie is a classic favorite.

The story of a very young aspiring nun, Maria, who left the convent and became the governess in a  Navy captain’s home. Her task was to look after the Captain’s seven frisky children with attitudes, who made all their past governess’ lives miserable by playing prank jokes on them. But Maria’s patience got the love of the children who missed their dead mother so much. Maria’s stay with the Von Trapp family made a big change. From a very sad and strict grounds to a happy and lively house. Eventually, the Captain and Frauline Maria fell inlove, and they got married.

Songs and dancing made the movie so lovely. Lessons about family, love, trust and loyalty,  depicted in the story. And of courage and patriotism, too.

I am not a fan of Eminem. But he was so popular then and they kept playing his songs. I can’t help but listened to this particular song. I never heard of the Mockingbird Song when I was a kid, or maybe not that I could remember. But when I heard him singing Hush Little Baby, The Mockingbird Song, for his daughter I knew that it’s a children song. It was in 2004 when this song hit the charts. But it was only later, when I had my baby, that I’ve searched through the internet and found the original lyrics.

There were also notes that some changed the “Mama’s going to buy you..” phrase into “Mama’s going to show you..” instead. Well they said not to spoil your child from buying things. Then, I guess, we’ll just have to show them things rather.

Hush Little Baby, The Mockingbird Song

Hush, little baby, don’t say a word,
Mama’s going to buy you a mockingbird.

If that mockingbird won’t sing,
Mama’s going to buy you a diamond ring.

If that diamond ring turns brass,
Mama’s going to buy you a looking glass.

If that looking glass gets broke,
Mama’s going to buy you a billy goat.

If that billy goat won’t pull,
Mama’s going to buy you a cart and bull.

If that cart and bull turn over,
Mama’s going to buy you a dog named Rover.

If that dog named Rover won’t bark,
Mama’s going to buy you a horse and cart.

If that horse and cart fall down,
You’ll still be the sweetest little baby in town.

So hush little baby, don’t you cry,
Daddy loves you and so do I.

The eensy weensy spider
Crawled up the water spout
Down came the rain
And washed the spider out
Out came the sun
And dried up all the rain
And the eensy weensy spider
Crawled up the spout again.

New Verse:

The itsy-bitsy spider
Stuck out two spinnerets
Out came a web
made-up of tiny threads
Along came the wind
That blew so far away
Where the itsy-bitsy spider found
A brand new place to play!

I would say the Itsy-Bitsy-Spider’s one of the classics. I remembered loving and singing this song, when I was young, every time it rains. After me and my younger siblings scream the Rain, Rain Go Away song. We used The-ITSY-BITSY Spider on the first verse, not EENSY-WEENSY. (I came across the second verse from the US-National Institutes of Health, Department of Health, & Human Services’ website for children.)

Now my son would not stop bugging me to sing the song over and over again whenever i started. He would force my hands to do the itsy bitsy thingy action.

You’re my Honeybunch, Sugarplum
Pumpy-umpy-umpkin, You’re my Sweetie Pie
You’re my Cuppycake, Gumdrop
Snoogums-Boogums, You’re
the Apple of my Eye

And I love you so and I want you to know
That I’ll always be right here
And I love to sing sweet songs to you
Because you are so dear!

Cuppy Cake Song (or Apple of My Eye) _ The song is simply sweet. I could put son to sleep with this.

The song lyrics was written by a mom as a valentine day present to her daughter. She wrote the song inspired by all the sweet names her dad and mom used to call her when she was little, and to all the sweet names she calls her daughter Amy.

The Cuppy Cake Song is just the chorus from Amy’s version of ” You’re My honey-Bunch”.