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Thread #71761 Message #1230274
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
20-Jul-04 - 07:55 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Probably a Negro lullaby: Hush Hush Hush
Subject: RE: Origins: Probably a negro lullabye: Hush Hush Hush
Gee, when you were bad or wouldn't go to bed, weren't you ever threatened with the boogie man or the banshee or La Llorona or the 101 other creatures invented by parents to compel obedience? You have missed an important part of childhood- or at least it was up through the 1930s.
Nowadays even a velociraptor rates only a yawn.