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Subject: RE: Help: All the Pretty Little Horses-2 From: Lox Date: 31 Jan 01 - 10:36 PM Cormac McArthy wrote a book called "All the pretty horses" which I recommend in the highest possible terms. If you haven't read it, read it! It's a beauty. (Thread creep over) lox |
Subject: RE: Help: All the Pretty Little Horses-2 From: Susan-Marie Date: 31 Jan 01 - 09:29 PM Yikes - my daughter loves horses so I used to sing this to her all the time, but now I don't think I can. I can't bear thinking about how painful it would be to listen to your baby cry and not be able to feed her. Oh well, that makes two folk songs ruined by understanding (the first one was Oh Shenandoah, what an eye-opening thread that was!) |
Subject: RE: Help: All the Pretty Little Horses-2 From: Mark Clark Date: 31 Jan 01 - 02:04 PM Ian has it right. It's the African wet nurse giving her milk to massa's baby while her own baby, lies unfed and unattended. All the pretty little horses refers to the wonderful things available to the owner's family that are not available to the African slaves. I think this is essentially the same theme---and almost the same song---as Gershwin's "Summertime." Of course Gershwin's composition is softened for popular consumption. - Mark
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Subject: RE: Help: All the Pretty Little Horses-2 From: Ian HP Date: 31 Jan 01 - 01:49 PM I too am intrigued by this song and lacked an explanation until I heard it on the Snakefarm album, 'Songs From My Funeral'. The Snakefarm website says that this was a lullaby sung to the master's child by a slave listening to the cries of her own baby left alone. That's as much as they say. My guess is that cake and horses were things that slaves could only dream of having, as in slave songs about having shoes, freedom, etc. in heaven, when the Lord will provide, etc.. Hope this helps. |
Subject: All the Pretty Little Horses-2 From: GUEST,Cinnamon_Johnson@baylor.edu Date: 31 Jan 01 - 01:44 PM I am looking for an explanation about the words to the folk song "All the Pretty Little Horses." What are the historical/social reasons a lullaby would talk about the baby getting cake and all the pretty little horses??? I am doing an arrangement of this song with one of my high school choirs and need to explain this to them. |
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