Given the outrageous statistics on child endangerment in the current century, I think Cruel Mother is still trenchant, still dangerous in that it speaks to something nobody likes to think about but exists nonetheless. Another great lullaby-antiwar song,... Crow on the Cradle ("If it should be that your baby's a girl, never you mind if her hair doesn't curl....rings on her fingers, bells on her toes, a bomber above her wherever she goes.").

Heh heh, and then there's always the cautionary Alway With Rum....the Song of the Salvation Army.....