Tired
Can’t blame the grog.
Can’t blame a virus.
Can only blame the evil leprechaun that took issue with Nico and cursed him to wake up at 1am and start speaking in tongues for eternity. or, until I kicked him and the big guy out of bed at 3 so I could end up with an extra hour of sketchy sleep.
Fuck you evil leprechaun!
Speaking of bedtime, I finally looked up the rest of the lyrics to “you are my sunshine”, which I sing to Nico every night as my mother did to me. I’ve been putting this off for YEARS, figuring that it was probably a boyfriend/girlfriend song and that I wouldn’t be able to expand beyond the 4 verses that I sing. I had NO idea that there would be such a range of lyrics, though all that I saw are in the “um, let’s forget we read that” category.
The only copy and pastable one was credited to Johnny Cash, but I saw it credited to other people as well. Enjoy. Oh, and don’t read if you want to preserve the sweetness. Otherwise you’ll have some forgettin’ to do.
You Are My Sunshine
The other night dear, as I lay sleeping
I dreamed I held you in my arms
But when I awoke, dear, I was mistaken
So I hung my head and I cried.
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You’ll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don’t take my sunshine away
I’ll always love you and make you happy,
If you will only say the same.
But if you leave me and love another,
You’ll regret it all some day:
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You’ll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don’t take my sunshine away
You told me once, dear, you really loved me
And no one else could come between.
But not you’ve left me and love another;
You have shattered all of my dreams:
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You’ll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don’t take my sunshine away
In all my dreams, dear, you seem to leave me
When I awake my poor heart pains.
So when you come back and make me happy
I’ll forgive you dear, I’ll take all the blame.
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You’ll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don’t take my sunshine away
ha. i’ll cut you, fucking sunshine.
i wonder if they make some kind of hypnosis for kids. or at least something hypnotic that they could get into to make them want to shut up and go to sleep. the stuff i listen to knocks me out real good. too bad someone’s usually fucking clapping their hands and yelling at the end to make you snap out of it.
you kick ol’ rye out of bed too? that’s power.
hm. well… there’s the sounds of the womb things, or ocean noises. I don’t think talking would really be very hypnotic for a kid, but I don’t really know. He sleeps 9-10 hours straight more often than not these days, though. Add a trip to the video arcade, or a bob the builder movie and there’s no sleeping for a week, however.
That sunshine will make you regret leaving. Scary shit, sunshine, scary shit.
A video will eff up sleep for a week? ugh, so sorry mama. I thought I had it rough.
my heart (and eyes) ache for ya.
sorry, but i love the Johnny Cash version of that song. <3 reminds me of my Gramps. sorry about the video thing and no sleeping:( ugh:(
My grandmother knew that entire song, and it always creeped me out and made me cry as a kid. NOT a song I’d sing to my own, subsequently. (Although they learned it at school & occasionally burst into it).