Today I was singing on my way to work. I had a homesick moment so I started to sing those sunday school songs from my childhood. One of them really puzzled me. If you know it, sing along....
I got a shoe
You got a shoe
All God's children gotta shoooooooe
When I go to heaven gonna put on my shoe
Gonna walk all over God's heaven, heaveeeeen, heaveeeeeeen
(repeat as desired)
Now, why would anybody teach children such a song? We all know that not all of God's children gotta shooooooooe.
I know that it is supposed to be in reference to some sort of heavenly shoes that are waiting for all God's children to wear on arrival, but nobody told me that when they taught me the song. I figured this out with age. I had classmates who had nicer shoes than mine. Some barely had shoes to speak off. All of us have seen, or know children (God's children?) without shoes. I wonder if they were also taught this song.
What is the purpose of this song anyway? Maybe I'm just being sceptical. I'll just sing another song...
Aringa ringa roses.................
20 comments:
Hehehe!!Fao at last!!
Now to the shoes...I remeber that song like it was the otha day....
Gal, that right there is you...gettin' the bantu christmas fever hihi!!!
Aringa roses indeed...
humpty dumpty sat on the wall...
old mother hubbard, slept in a cupboard
And my favourite:
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water...God knows what happened there, cause they came down with a daughter!
I so know that song and i can still sing it, i Blame it all on Mrs Rose my first proper english teacher God rest her soul**my kindergaten teacher twanged me for saying boy instead of mboy*** i still my cranuim hasn't recoved yet.
@ichiena ROTFL ati they came down with a what!!!
You have to love us Kenyans with our cultural issues. Wasnt the song.. a ring, a ring of roses?
But you know Kenyans with our pronounciations!
Acolyte don crack me up....IT was ariNGA roses...ama?
It was A RING A RING OF ROSES. ROTFL
AAAaaaaH noooo! Aringa roses!!
Somebody sane plizz support me....plizzz...
A ring of roses...Bants. U r insane u know....hehe....
What about.......Baba black sheep.........right...
When Mrs. Mbogo taught me the song, she taught me ARINGA roses. Those who were taught otherwise, in your box!
yeeeees!!!
hehehe...Bantu, I agree. It was "ARINGA RINGA ROSES, A PACKET FULL OF ROSES, ATIS, ATIS, WE ALL FALL DOWN..."
PN, you brought on some memories. One song I never understood (and still don't) is, "These bones, these bones are, dry bones...." What exactly does that mean?
Happy New Year, keep the nostalgia alive :)
Dem! Sisbigbones, kwani where were you taught "these bones"? Reason I ask is, if it was in sunday school, they would have told you the bible story behind it. Remeber the valley of dry bones? Yah. That's what the song is about.
Also,
you were taught "ati atis we all fall down!). Funny. Our version was, " a tissue a tissue we all fall down!" Funnier.
Happy new year gal, ati the box for the rest of us? what happened to democracy??
lol true, not all God's children got shoes. I'll back up my statement with a famous anecdote that tour drivers share with whoever will listen.- a tourist while visiting a village near Mt Kenya saw a boy wearing one shoe, he is touched and decides to find out why " you lost a shoe?" to which the boy replies "nope, i found one"
Ok Anonymous, you have made my day today. Please make it a habit.
@Don_Q, democracy does not apply in this my box. In your box!
why teach anyones children a song about the plague that wiped out halp of europe in the first place?let me explain:
a ring a ring of roses,
(the red ring around the eyes of those infected)
a pocket full of possies
(held at the nose to relieve the smell of death all around)
atchoo atchoo(sneezing)
we all fall down
(we DIE!)
despite the fact that it was children who came up with the damn song, we need not endeleza such!
some could however help me understand some of the skipping games we played- (second stanza)Underb(r)ush,blue band
by by zero
zero point zero is a.......etc
WHAT THE HELL?
aha i remembered some more:
zero point zero is a round, around and around,i am a (enter appropriate missing word) dressed in black these are the actions i must do:
-salute for the king
-bow for the queen
-close my eyes and count fifteen(without "banning")Saidieko please!
We have to discuss this. Thanks Anomymous.
okay allow me to break it down so it can forever and consistently be broke. this song is evidence of globalization from long before. this song was sang by african american slaves...who didn't have shoes and was translocated to us via some missionary who believed we would identify with our 'brodas' in diaspora! so blame the cross that the flag so diligently followed.
Kuuuuumbe! Ebu I google some other songs.....
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