Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for January 05, 2011

My daughter was the same way at that age … only instead of “John Barleycorn,” it was West Coast rap.

Max is off to a good start…..selective hearing, tuning out, etc.

John Barleycorn? Who? I must be older than I thought….

Selective hearing is a male thing, I’m 76 and still suffer from it!! Thank goodness….

Hi Kreole Check out “Traffic“‘s 1970 album of the same name. Cheers!

Should Max be like 10 years old by now? He should be talking and everything.

The kids don’t age in this strip. Luci was born in 2007 but she’s still a baby!

It took 3 decades but John Barleycorn got me sober a decade ago. Dust of the turntable Dear, I feel a craving coming on.

That’s fine because he feels loved, and it’s probably distracting him from his ooky stomach. I think this is sweet…everyone’s happy.

Good for Max out with grandma in fresh air away from screaming baby sister.

I think Gramma’s voice must be soothing to Gramma as well….

When I was little, it wasn’t Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. It was “Roxanne” by The Police and “What I Got” by Sublime.

Our Middle Son used to curl around the base of the music stand and sleep while my friend and I practiced The Crawl, by Spirit of the West. He also thought a Rankin Family cassette was a lullaby album; we wore out the tape in a year.

Now he likes Avenged Sevenfold… Oh, well; we tried. :)

I rocked my kids to City of New Orleans bu Arlo Guthrie, Bus Stop by the Hollies, and People Get Ready by the Impressions. Grandkids have heard the same songs. Sweet times.

John Barleycorn goes w-a-a-a-a-y back to preChristian England as a local deity and the folksong is at least 500 years old.

When I was that little the song that did it for me was the Kingston Trio’s “It Takes A Worried Man”.

@DerkinsVanPelt – LOL – “What I Got”? Uncensored version, I hope! Love that song! My kids’ lullabyes were usually “The Rose”, and Townes Van Zandt’s “Pancho & Lefty.”

Now I’ve got to go listen to “John Barleycorn.” :-)