Rise Up Singing: Over in the Meadow

Adapted by Lee Hays and Doris Kaplan I know it from Raffi’s version Rise Up Singing chapter: Play, D - Em A7 / D - A7 D / A7 - - - / D - A7 D I just realized something about this song. When I was a kid and I sang it, nothing seemed strange about the line “lived an old mother [animal] and her little [babies][number]“. Now it rings totally wrong to me because I think to myself “Wait, if she has little babies, then she can’t be old, right?“ As a 7-year old listening to the song, though, I can see w