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Michael's avatar

My kids were the right age for the Bed, Bed, Bed CD to be their lights-out sleepy time soundtrack for several months, but it never occurred to me to sing to them myself. That's a sweet story you tell, perhaps my favorite of yours.

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Huh, I know (and like) this song, but had never registered the song title (a friend of mine made a TMBG tape for me, so I didn't always have the titles in front of me). It is a charming song.

Just because of the coincidence of name, I will also link to the Cindy Kallet song, "I'm A Mammal" --https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1FolXZ3DBM

(She says, of the song, "Thanksgiving with relatives; dinner ready and our three-month old was hungry too! But, alas, I was not welcome to nurse him at the table, so he had his meal of thanks in the bedroom and I had mine reheated later. The next day, talk with friends about how we humans seem to have distanced ourselves from the fact of our 'animalness'. That night in the car I started singing what became the first verse, and by the end of the four-hour drive home, John and I had completed the song.")

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