First Song: All the Pretty Horses

I had no trouble remembering what the first song I heard was. It was a lullaby that my mom sang to me, called "All the Pretty Horses." She's pretty materialistic, so it suited her.

This is the basic gist of the song:

Hush-a-bye, don't you cry
Go to sleep you little baby
When you wake, you shall have cake
And all the pretty little horses
Blacks and bays, dapple and greys
All the pretty little horses
Hmm, and mama loves, daddy loves
Oh they love their little baby
When you wake, you shall have cake
And all the pretty little horses

That was a long time ago and I needed to help my memory out. When I  listened to different versions of it on YouTube and looked at lyrics online, nothing really looked much like my mom's version. They were sort of dark and creepy. My mom sang it in a more or less cheerful tune, maybe because she wasn't a good singer and couldn't pick up on the real tune, or maybe just to not scare me. I think she also sang less of the words and kept looping back to the part about the physical appearance of the horses: 'black and bay, dapple and gray' over and over. There was a really dark verse that she never sang:

Way down yonder, down in the meadow
Lies a poor little child
The bees and the flies are pickin' out its eyes
The poor little child crying for its mother


Anyway, I started to probe my memory of what she sang, and figure out what she knew and what she didn't know, just by covering and cutting out some unfamiliar words that I don't think she sang.

I'm planning to frame something like this inside a dark box, and change how I block words. The yellow trace paper isn't doing it for me, but it's a start.