Lyr Req: The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky

Subject: SOng about the moon as a cookie
From: GUEST,Susan-Marie
Date: 16 Aug 02 - 04:54 PM

My kid's favorite lullaby is what they call the moon song. It starts out like this:

The moon's the north wind's cookie, he bites it day by day....

I'd like to record it on a CD and I'm looking for an author, if one exists. Anyone know it?

Subject: RE: SOng about the moon as a cookie
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 16 Aug 02 - 04:55 PM

poet Vachel Lindsay

Subject: RE: SOng about the moon as a cookie
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 16 Aug 02 - 04:56 PM

can't remember which collection it's in, but most libraries should still have a copy of two of his collected poems

Subject: Lyr Add: THE MOON'S THE NORTH WIND'S COOKY
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Aug 02 - 06:24 PM

Thanks, Bill, for posting the author's name. I wasn't familiar with it, but it sounded neat, so...found it on google, thanks to your imput. I am wondering, though, if this is all of it?


Vachel Lindsay: The Moon's The North Wind's Cooky (What The Little Girl Said)

The Moon's the North Wind's cooky.
He bites it, day by day,
Until there's but a rim of scraps,
That crumbles all away

The South Wind is a baker.
He kneads clouds in his den,
And bakes a crisp new Moon
that...greedy...North...Wind...eats...again!!

Subject: RE: Song about the moon as a cookie
From: MAG
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 04:30 PM

That's the whole poem. Title of at least one children's anthology.

Subject: RE: Song about the moon as a cookie
From: GUEST,Susan-Marie
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 10:31 PM

Thanks for the author Bill. The version I know is slightly different at the end:

And bakes up a new moon
To take the place of the old moon
Which gets eaten...again

I wonder where I got the tune. I have it in Noteworthy Composer, will try Alan's midi to text program and if I'm sucessful I'll post it for you, kat.

Subject: RE: Song about the moon as a cookie
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Aug 02 - 01:22 AM

Thanks, Susan-Marie, I'd like that. Vachel Lindsay seems to have been a very interesting person. I learn something new here, everyday!

Subject: RE: Song about the moon as a cookie
From: Genie
Date: 18 Aug 02 - 05:55 AM

More about/from Vachel Lindsay:

chronology of his life and work

some other of his poems

A Vachel Lindsay Exhibit--by Cary Nelson

Poets' Corner (misc. V. Lindsay poems"

Subject: RE: Song about the moon as a cookie
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 19 Aug 02 - 02:10 AM

There is brillant and complete set of replies - except the reverse of the medal - a cookie as a moon.

MOON COOKIES

You have showed such restraint over this year, Gila-Giggle-Gato. Let me do this one for YOU, my Little Linx Laughing.

http://pages.ivillage.com/paganparent/moon.html

>The Pagan and Wiccan Parenting Page

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Song about the moon as a cookie
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 19 Aug 02 - 09:29 AM

Vachel Lindsay is a very special person to me, who will not be forgotten, as long as I can do something about it! His poetry, and in particular his public performance of his poetry on the vaudeville circuit, was extermely popular. He recited for and was appreciated by Yeats among others, when Yeats was touring the US, in Chicago. He wrote many memorable children's poems for his own family, all as inventive and mysterious and playful as 'The Moon's the North Winds Cookie'. I can't remember it, but will look for at least one other moon poem that he wrote to balance this one. If memory serves it is in the same meter and rhyme scheme, so it could be added to these two verses to make a longer and perhaps more complete song. All the biographies I have read seem to stress his mental breakdowns, and I think in many ways he has been misunderstood. I would urge you all to find a collection of his and read through it, or a recording of him reciting his own work. Some of it is not very PC these days, especially his long poem 'the Congo', which I think accounts for the lessening of his reputation, but much of his work still sings. His drawings were as remarkably fresh and inventive as his poems. A real sensitive and rare spirit.

Subject: RE: Song about the moon as a cookie
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 19 Aug 02 - 01:25 PM

Having heard some of his stuff over the years and recited it aloud--To Hades with PC! It is the stultification of creativity, having been extracted (it was never born, of woman or otherwise)by limited minds for the sake of limiting art they are incapable of understanding. Send to Blue Noses to their own ring of Hell.

Art is independent of culture. In fact, one of the signs of real art is that people often have to learn to appreciate it. This does not mean that all of that which we don't understand is art. It is often just BS.

Subject: RE: Song about the moon as a cookie
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 19 Aug 02 - 01:45 PM

agreed, and his work is Art, capital A. I think his poem Congo, is a great poem, just mentioned that others may not now think so, precisely because they will not understand.

Subject: RE: Song about the moon as a cookie
From: MMario
Date: 19 Aug 02 - 01:52 PM

Susan-Marie - if you don't have any luck with the miditxt program - try downloading NWC2ABC - it will convert NWC to ABC which can be posted.

Subject: RE: Vachel Lindsay
From: Genie
Date: 19 Aug 02 - 01:59 PM

I'm with you, Bill K.and E. Barnacle. We used to do portions of "The Congo" as a "spoken choral" piece when I was studying drama in college many years ago. I loved that poem and still think it's a fine work of Art.

Genie

Subject: RE: Song about the moon as a cookie
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 19 Aug 02 - 01:59 PM

Having heard some of his stuff over the years and recited it aloud--To Hades with PC! It is the stultification of creativity, having been extracted (it was never born, of woman or otherwise)by limited minds for the sake of limiting art they are incapable of understanding. Send to Blue Noses to their own ring of Hell.

Art is independent of culture. In fact, one of the signs of real art is that people often have to learn to appreciate it. This does not mean that all of that which we don't understand is art. It is often just BS.

Subject: RE: Song about the moon as a cookie
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 19 Aug 02 - 02:15 PM

that is one serious stutter, there, Ebarnacle!

Subject: RE: Song about the moon as a cookie
From: Susan-Marie
Date: 19 Aug 02 - 10:23 PM

Ummmmm, I can't find the link to the Midi/Text program or a NWC/ABC program. Can anyone help me out?

Bill K, the only thing I don't like about the Moon Cookie song is that it's too short. I would love to have two more verses.