ABC
It happens in everybody's life. The trauma of waiting for a bus that never comes. The sight of seeing someone board the bus soon after arriving at the bus stop that you've been waiting for over 20 minutes. The fact that every single bus number stated on the bus stop sign has passed the stop except yours.
Maybe its because I've done too many evil deeds recently. The fucking bus just won't come my way.
I was waiting at a random bus stop this afternoon where this group of little children started singing the alphabet song in unison. Its quite brilliant isn't it the alphabet song because that is the first thing you learn in English and it kinda gets stuck in your head for as long as you can remember.
Time and again when I flip through that big fat dictionary, the alphabetical order plays such a big role in my search for the meaning behind the words. And then this ABC jingle comes playing through your mind like an old casette tape, so nostalgic and powerful at that very instance.
Which makes me wonder do all the rich, old, powerful motherfuckers in the world do this jingle in their heads too?
Which makes me wonder who the hell created this ABC jingle that is so brilliant?
I mean you can't find a better melody for all that 26 alphabets.
The ABC song will forever be a classic and a kiddy song. It will be a kiddy song that adults hum to not only teach their children but to sing it softly in their heads when they forget whether 'P' or 'N' comes first. Perhaps the alphabet song serves a reminder to all of us that we are all but little kids deep down.
Little kids sing it aloud.
Adults act like they don't know the song.
But hell they do.
And they do very well.
Maybe its because I've done too many evil deeds recently. The fucking bus just won't come my way.
I was waiting at a random bus stop this afternoon where this group of little children started singing the alphabet song in unison. Its quite brilliant isn't it the alphabet song because that is the first thing you learn in English and it kinda gets stuck in your head for as long as you can remember.
Time and again when I flip through that big fat dictionary, the alphabetical order plays such a big role in my search for the meaning behind the words. And then this ABC jingle comes playing through your mind like an old casette tape, so nostalgic and powerful at that very instance.
Which makes me wonder do all the rich, old, powerful motherfuckers in the world do this jingle in their heads too?
Which makes me wonder who the hell created this ABC jingle that is so brilliant?
I mean you can't find a better melody for all that 26 alphabets.
The ABC song will forever be a classic and a kiddy song. It will be a kiddy song that adults hum to not only teach their children but to sing it softly in their heads when they forget whether 'P' or 'N' comes first. Perhaps the alphabet song serves a reminder to all of us that we are all but little kids deep down.
Little kids sing it aloud.
Adults act like they don't know the song.
But hell they do.
And they do very well.
posted by jingli K at 2:45 AM
1 Comments:
The lyrics were written by an American in the 19th century, and the tune was a French folk tune whose composer has been lost to the sands of time.
You can find out about the origins here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_song
and here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkle_twinkle_little_star
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