A Slaughter Down at the Farmhouse at L.A. Daddy

Published May 27th, 2007 in Kids Say....

You know the classic kid song, The Farmer in the Dell?

The farmer in the dell
The farmer in the dell
Hi-ho,The derry-o
The farmer in the dell

The farmer takes a wife
The farmer takes a wife
Hi-ho,The derry-o
The farmer takes a wife

My lovely, charming and oh-so-sweet daughter has her own take on the lyrics. When L.A. Toddler sings the song, she puts it like this:

The farmer takes a life
The farmer takes a life
Hi-ho,The derry-o
The farmer takes a life

Apparently, to her, the Farmer is one pissed off serial killer.

1 Hilly May 27th, 2007 at 8:08 pm

Holy crap, someone call Rob Zombie!
2 Paige May 27th, 2007 at 9:04 pm

Good God, that’s scary.
3 Phil May 28th, 2007 at 3:35 am

Remember that movie where some demented hillbilly farmers plant people in the ground to make sausages out of them?

Get that one for your next family movie night!
4 KathyR May 28th, 2007 at 10:12 am

And in the next verse “the farmer gets life.”

Or, maybe because this is an L.A. blog, “the farmer gets a life.”
5 Redneck Mommy May 28th, 2007 at 11:49 am

Hmm, I wonder if she met my farming inlaws???

Hmmm….
6 Jeff St Real May 28th, 2007 at 3:06 pm

Looks like she just put the ole’ Mother Goose spin on it. I never noticed until I was a father just how morbid many of those little rhymes can be. Here’s one of my favorites.

Solomon Grundy,
Born on a Monday,
Christened on Tuesday,
Married on Wednesday,
Took ill on Thursday,
Grew worse on Friday,
Died on Saturday,
Buried on Sunday.
That was the end of
Solomon Grundy.

Poor fella!
7 motherofbun May 28th, 2007 at 8:17 pm

Oh that is SO funny!
8 Jeff May 28th, 2007 at 10:25 pm

Hey, farming is a tough game these days. Farmers are snapping all the time now.
9 Oh, The Joys May 30th, 2007 at 9:18 am

I see you too are MASTER of the photoshop!
10 joel Oct 6th, 2008 at 9:40 pm

i guess “The farmer takes a life” is taking an animal’s life