I am an old man, but I cannot stop crying. I've lost so much in the last few months that I needed a musical outlet to help me. So moving, so incredibly timeless that this song should be included in every CD of old ballads and lullabies. I will sing this song for the rest of my life.
There is nothing wrong with crying. Your a human with human emotions! You deserve to shead those tears, even if you were raised in that toxic mindset of men dont cry.
My mom sang this to me when I was a child. She died when I was 10. When I was 11 I started playing the flute and the first solo I ever got was this. This song has always meant way too much to me.
I'm sorry to hear about your mom's passing. As a tribute to her, why not sing this to your kids? I know I'd love it if my mom had sung me the same lullabies that my grandma sang her. I sing the ones she sang me to my kids now and they love it when I do
Weird fact: this is actually an old slave lullaby sang by the slaves who took care of their masters children, owning a horse was a sign of freedom so of course they sang it to the white children and when she sings about the baby "way down yonder in the meadow" the "poor little baby crying mama" is a slave child who at the time were taken from their mothers, the line "birds and the butterflies flutter round his eyes" was originally "birds and butterflies pick out his eyes" because the slave children were seldom taken care of. Its a creepy yet soothing tune for a lullaby, just thought a bit of history from the song would be interesting.
Yeah I knew the verse 'Poor little baby crying mama' was a sad verse but yeesh!! I'm really glad we live in the 21st century and slavery is now almost non-existent!
Don't know where I heard this song but I sang it to my three daughters when they were babes and I've sung it to every baby I ever cuddled. In about the 1970s, I was singing it to one of my babies when a friend who was from the Ukraine(elderly) recognized the tune. She said it was a lullaby that the mommies sang to their babies in the Ukraine. But the words were different. Their version was about the baby boys growing up and going to war and dying, never to come home to their mommies. Ugh! maybe that's why it makes people sad! I love it because it's sweet and our version is about horses. Last year I was cuddling my granddaughter and I her asked which song she wanted me to sing. She said, "Sing the soft one, Gramma." Babies love it.
Considering this song was originally sung by poor black ladies to starving babies...... not far off. This is a morbid song, yet I love it. I sang it to my son when he was a baby. :)
I don’t know why I suddenly thought of this song and searched it up. This is the lullaby my parents used to sing to me. I grew up in rural British Columbia, where there are fields upon fields of horses and cattle and redwoods everywhere you look. This song has always been filled with such rich imagery for me. It fills me with a strange sense of melancholy to hear it again.
I bought a music box at a garage sale that plays this song! So glad I found this video. The music box likes to play on its own so I always have this tune stuck in my head haha
The first time I heard this was in the movie Flicka, and then I recognized it in a few novels, as an equestrian lover I became obsessed with this lullaby. Its beautiful, and my children will know it by heart.
Katelyn Perez my mom used to sing that whole “mama’s gonna buy you a mocking bird” and my dad and grandparents used to sing “you are my sunshine” (still love that song) but whenever I was afraid (I was afraid of almost everything as a kid) I would sing or talk to myself and I would just come up with random lyrics and a random tune.
I don’t know, but I first heard this song in season 1 of The 100 when Clarke Griffin stabbed Atom in the neck to end his suffering (after ACID fog put radiation through his body)
My husband died 10 weeks ago and our 9year old granddaughter sang this at his funeral. I had never heard it before and of course I wept buckets. My husband of 52 years had Dementia and heartbreakingly took his own life, so this is a song that will always stir deep emotions in me, Sue, Ireland
im not being dramatic or anything, but i asked my mom, she said that she sung this to me and me siblings when we were younger. no wonder its so comforting!
i love this song. my mom would sing it too me every night growing up. She knew it made me happy. She died about 6 months ago in labor with my little brother. Neither lived but i like to pretend they did in a way. She died 2 weeks before my 16th birthday. And on that day all i did was play this song over and over again. And when ever i miss her, i play this song and pretend she still sings it to me. Its as if shes still here... Thank you for posting it. It helped me get through the day...
I had a cd with this tune 17 years ago when I had my first son. We'd lay down and I'd sing along until he fell asleep. Even once I lost the cd, I continued to sing. I sang it to my daughter and now I have a 6 month old and feel so blessed that Allah gave me another baby to sing to after experiencing several losses.
My grandmother used to sing this to me when I was a child ... it was the only thing that would put me to sleep ... and to this day I can still hear her singing that sweet sad song ...
I played this in my high school band and we got third place at state. We played it with two other songs that go along with it and we also played another song too.
Thank you so much for this post... my mom sang that to me when I was a baby and she is dying currently. I also sang it as my son was dying to him. Be blessed and hug your loved ones... None of us know what time we may have. Much love to all...
omg I'm so sorry I have 3 horses I would die if something happened to one of my baby I hum this song to my horse her name is dream she was my first horse I would just die if I lost I'm so sorry for your los
yea he's not in pain anymore that a all that matters I hate how animals suffer from humans selfishness bye not putting them down when there in pain so they will have them longer
always tell my horses when you die I want you happy running and bucking in a pasture and have a heart attack not from colic or choking or breaking something
what a great piece of music. The variations, chord voicings, the changing passes of the duet harmony and inventive passing chords with their half step motion of tension and release behind the melody just slay me. It's a simple song but there is fine craftsmanship in the arrangement. I turn the lyric off in my head and just let the melody and changes roam in my head. It puts you in a trance. There's a bit of magic going on here.
I was crying and this song randomly came to my mind, so I searched it up thinking maybe it would actually calm me down and I would stop crying and could sleep like it makes babies do. It worked. Good way to calm yourself down apparently, adult or child :p
Who agrees that a horror movie could totally be based off of this song?! Edit: damn I left this comment 7 years ago and had no idea it had any traction haha
Yeah, I think so. This song's been done so many different ways, but I can't believe no one's made a techno dance remix or a creepy, dark Japanese Vocaloid version of it yet.
I am the oldest of 5 grandchildren on my mothers side and my grandpa has sung this song to all 5 of us, my aunt had another baby 2 years ago and a few months ago i heard him singing this to him and i broke out into tears wondering why i was crying at a song i have never heard before (i didn't remember) and i just looked the lyrics up... i started crying again
I am from India,a non-english medium school student.This is the first time I am listening to any lullaby seriously,before this I was not aware of this term.This lullby opened a new interest for me.wow wow what a lullaby,background music,tone,modulations,salute to you Thanks a zillion.
My mom sang this to me when I was little, she's gone now, not dead but sick in the mind, I sing myself to sleep now, this was beautiful thank you for the lyrics.
when i was a baby i think i remember this lullaby and its making me cry cuz they died in a car crash now i feel this moment came cuz of them watching over me
The disturbing feel you have about the song, is that the song originally has a kid dead in the field, birds pecking at his eyes instead of fluttering around them.
the song was originally sung by a slave who had a baby, at the same time her owners did. she was forced to care for the owners child over her own, and she sung this song. the second verse was directed at the slave owner, not the child. (if I am remembering correctly)
Wanna know what this song means? In the 1800s London there were two groups: Rich people and poor people. People usually had about 10 children since many did not survive. So that meant that children were getting sick all the time. London at the time was also very polluted and children were going to work at 5 years old, so no wonder they were getting sick. Sometimes when a child was so sick and the mother knew that they wouldn't make it through the night, the mothers would sing this song. 'When you wake you shall have all the pretty little horses' means that when the child woke up they would be in heaven and they could have all the horses. Honestly, I swear every single lullaby has a dark meaning.
This song makes me realize how much comfort can come from a song. My older brother sang it to me and my twin before he passed away from Juvenal cancer. Not to long after that my parents split up and me and my twin brother we placed in two different homes, then I found out my twin had ran away from our dads house because he was being abused. I thought my life was done, then one day I was in the park and I heard someone singing this, my twin and me haven't left each others side since then.
my daughter asks for this lullaby daily at bedtime. I have been playing it for her since she was about 3 and she's now 6. absolutely love the meaning behind the song, as sad as it is. plan on singing it to my little one coming soon in May. Thanks for posting :)
I used to play this song for my kids at naptime when I worked in daycare. I always found it so calming. It's been more than ten years since I've heard it. A couple lines suddenly came to me so I looked it up. Thanks for posting. It brought back some great memories.(and the scary thought that the children I watched are all now teenagers! lol.) God bless you. ;)
I think this is the message: a mother trying to get her child to go to sleep, the child knows that she may not be back, and that the baby may not wake up at all... So she's trying not to sleep, but the mother is trying to say it's okay, and that it will be better when she wakes. "All the pretty little horses" is trying to reference that they will still be there when they wake up, But the meadow is trying to say they won't be exactly the same. That's how i enterpret it.
I heard this song from show “The 100“ and just suddenly hit me all at once. I didn’t know why and I later asked my mom and she told me she used to sing this to me and I was a baby. We might not be able to remember something but we will always feel it.
Pretty Little Horses was written by a slave. She was raped and then they took her newborn baby and let it die and forced her to breastfeed her slave master’s baby. The part about a lamb in the field with butterflies getting in his eyes while he cried for his mom is super sad when you understand the context. She’s singing to a crying baby that will be beyond spoiled while her child is being swarmed by insects as it dies crying for her. I couldn’t imagine that kind of suffering but I’m glad she immortalized it in a song for those who forget or claim that it wasn’t that bad.
I was never sung to as a kid. I first heard lullabies in movies. Flicka was where I heard this one. I spent the past seven years trying to find this song. This song is unbelievably comforting and a little unsettling to me. It's also extremely nostalgic. I love this song and I'll never forget it.
my friend introduced me to this song because her mother used to sing it to her and now her life has been torn up and i think it means alot to her and that means it does to me as well........ i have it on mp3 now thank you
I love this song but it sounds beautiful when you are humming it bc when I saw this on “the 100” and I was mesmerized and loved it but it has a scary vibe to it
Seriously?! I didn't catch that! Pretty sure Clarke lied to poor old Atom though because i'm certain he didn't wake to have any pretty little horses at all since he kinda done kicked the bucket and all the horses have two heads so . . . nice going, Clarke! They say never lie to someone about to die but I guess Wanheda makes and breaks all the rules.
been playing this video for my little one for years from kangaroo care in nicu to being requested to hear when tired or just wants to relax and cuddle love the voice so soothing
Thanks for uploading this all those years ago, when I would visit my cousins house and his parents would yell and yell (he was 8) I used to put this on for him and he would fall asleep, then there was me scared af he was gonna wake up lol.
My Father and Mother used to sing this when I was a little baby, when I listened to it... I remembered them singing it to me, I almost wanted to cry because I don't have my mom anymore.
Why? There's nothing scary about kids or lullaby's no matter how slow or annoying you make them. Why do people have an obsession with children when it comes to horror movies? Is every horror movie director a pedophile?
I discovered this song through a singing storybook that my son owns. I sought it out because I kept thinking that, for a compressed MIDI song, it has no business going as HARD as it does. 💯💯💯
My mother used to sing this when I was restless. I now have a creature under my own care who gets restless. I'm teaching myself the song so that I can try to calm him with a lullaby since nothing else works. (He's a cat btw)
My heart breaks to find quite a few comments thanking daycare for this precious, haunting lullabye, instead of mama and daddy and grandma and granddad.
my dad would sing this to me every night when i was little. our relationship isn’t the best now but this sounds brings me peace almost like everything is still ok
Yeah, the slaves used to sing this to their kids when they would leave them in the Meadows to die. It would help keep them from crying as the mom walked away.
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I am an old man, but I cannot stop crying. I've lost so much in the last few months that I needed a musical outlet to help me. So moving, so incredibly timeless that this song should be included in every CD of old ballads and lullabies. I will sing this song for the rest of my life.
There is nothing wrong with crying. Your a human with human emotions! You deserve to shead those tears, even if you were raised in that toxic mindset of men dont cry.
I hope you are still here and are faring better.
Wow.. 12 years ago now, I hope you're still here
not old yet, but this song always made me cry. still does
I hope you are still around and if not then either way I would like to believe that things have gotten better for you.
My mom sang this to me when I was a child. She died when I was 10. When I was 11 I started playing the flute and the first solo I ever got was this. This song has always meant way too much to me.
This year in my band I had a clarinet solo in this. I can honestly say it brings tears to my eyes
I'm sorry to hear about your mom's passing. As a tribute to her, why not sing this to your kids? I know I'd love it if my mom had sung me the same lullabies that my grandma sang her. I sing the ones she sang me to my kids now and they love it when I do
Sing it to your kids
My mom has also sang this to me and I will play this when.i have a hard time sleeping
This comment just made me legit cry. God bless you and your mom in heaven. I hope all is well for you now.
This song has a beautiful feeling of disturbia to it.
And now I have that song stuck in my head. Thank you.
It's because of it's history
I really shouldn’t...Rihanna DISTURBIA.
BUM BUM BEE DUM BUM BUM BEE DUM DUM
Weird fact: this is actually an old slave lullaby sang by the slaves who took care of their masters children, owning a horse was a sign of freedom so of course they sang it to the white children and when she sings about the baby "way down yonder in the meadow" the "poor little baby crying mama" is a slave child who at the time were taken from their mothers, the line "birds and the butterflies flutter round his eyes" was originally "birds and butterflies pick out his eyes" because the slave children were seldom taken care of. Its a creepy yet soothing tune for a lullaby, just thought a bit of history from the song would be interesting.
:o History lesson breach! Wow never knew thanks!
glad you liked it!
Yeah I knew the verse 'Poor little baby crying mama' was a sad verse but yeesh!! I'm really glad we live in the 21st century and slavery is now almost non-existent!
Ricki Anderson my whole life is a lie....My daycare played this song to help me sleep everyday
woaw thank's for teach me
Don't know where I heard this song but I sang it to my three daughters when they were babes and I've sung it to every baby I ever cuddled. In about the 1970s, I was singing it to one of my babies when a friend who was from the Ukraine(elderly) recognized the tune. She said it was a lullaby that the mommies sang to their babies in the Ukraine. But the words were different. Their version was about the baby boys growing up and going to war and dying, never to come home to their mommies. Ugh! maybe that's why it makes people sad! I love it because it's sweet and our version is about horses. Last year I was cuddling my granddaughter and I her asked which song she wanted me to sing. She said, "Sing the soft one, Gramma." Babies love it.
Considering this song was originally sung by poor black ladies to starving babies...... not far off.
This is a morbid song, yet I love it. I sang it to my son when he was a baby. :)
Leelee Watson You're right. This song always gives me chills.
Bweez Brooks yea my mom sang it to me when i was little now im singing it to my babies and they right to sleep they love it
@@leeleewatson8725so heart breaking
I don’t know why I suddenly thought of this song and searched it up. This is the lullaby my parents used to sing to me. I grew up in rural British Columbia, where there are fields upon fields of horses and cattle and redwoods everywhere you look. This song has always been filled with such rich imagery for me. It fills me with a strange sense of melancholy to hear it again.
I bought a music box at a garage sale that plays this song! So glad I found this video. The music box likes to play on its own so I always have this tune stuck in my head haha
No one ever sang to me as a baby...
Now, despite no one has ever sung to me as a kid, I like listening lullaby's :)
I'd sing to you ^^
Thank you :)
Kitsune To Neko No problem neko :3
Fan Faeng me to
I was sung to when I was little, I just listen to lullabies for contentment
The first time I heard this was in the movie Flicka, and then I recognized it in a few novels, as an equestrian lover I became obsessed with this lullaby. Its beautiful, and my children will know it by heart.
As a kid no one would ever sing to me, so when I would get scared I would sing myself, and this was the first song I learnd
Good good
***** Thank you, such a sweetheart... :)
Katelyn Perez my mom used to sing that whole “mama’s gonna buy you a mocking bird” and my dad and grandparents used to sing “you are my sunshine” (still love that song) but whenever I was afraid (I was afraid of almost everything as a kid) I would sing or talk to myself and I would just come up with random lyrics and a random tune.
I remember a long time ago, my mother used to sing this to me when she was still around. Such a flood of memories and emotions.
Why does it sound so calming and nice but with a hint of...creepiness..
Because the history behind it
Because thats exactly what it is.
It's also because of the "little girl" voice of the singer combined with the minor key of the music.
Aylin QK._ i had to turn it off becos it creeped me out 😅😅😅😅
I don’t know, but I first heard this song in season 1 of The 100 when Clarke Griffin stabbed Atom in the neck to end his suffering (after ACID fog put radiation through his body)
Beautiful, haunting , lullaby
My husband died 10 weeks ago and our 9year old granddaughter sang this at his funeral. I had never heard it before and of course I wept buckets. My husband of 52 years had Dementia and heartbreakingly took his own life, so this is a song that will always stir deep emotions in me, Sue, Ireland
I adore her voice ♥
Your rendition was beautiful caro 👌🏻️😊️
Caroline ADMIN
Good song
I ADORE YOURSSSSSS.
I ADORE YOURS SISSSS
i asked my mom about this because it was so familiar, i didn't know why.
she said you sang it to me and my sister because we absolutely loved horses.
wow that's nice
im not being dramatic or anything, but i
asked my mom, she said that she sung this to me and me siblings when we were younger.
no wonder its so comforting!
This version is lovely. So soothing and its almost haunting the way the voices blend. Beautiful nonetheless. Thanks for this!
i love this song. my mom would sing it too me every night growing up. She knew it made me happy. She died about 6 months ago in labor with my little brother. Neither lived but i like to pretend they did in a way. She died 2 weeks before my 16th birthday. And on that day all i did was play this song over and over again. And when ever i miss her, i play this song and pretend she still sings it to me. Its as if shes still here... Thank you for posting it. It helped me get through the day...
I had a cd with this tune 17 years ago when I had my first son. We'd lay down and I'd sing along until he fell asleep. Even once I lost the cd, I continued to sing. I sang it to my daughter and now I have a 6 month old and feel so blessed that Allah gave me another baby to sing to after experiencing several losses.
So happy you're getting blessed again. Congrats on the baby
My mom passed last year. She used to sing this to me as a baby. Now I play it for my daughter at bed time. Thanks for posting it.
One of our earliest memories is whispering this song to ourselves to escape further from reality. To us, this is a song of comfort and disruption.
My grandmother used to sing this to me when I was a child ... it was the only thing that would put me to sleep ... and to this day I can still hear her singing that sweet sad song ...
I'm doing this in orchestra and I looked up the actual song and wow this sounds beautiful but creepy
I played this in my high school band and we got third place at state. We played it with two other songs that go along with it and we also played another song too.
+Zenia Primrosee two other songs that go along with this one? What's the name of those songs? Do they sound something like this? I wanna hear them (:
we are playing this at my junior high concert. I play bass clarinet.
newjug1234 same except we are playing this in band rn
newjug1234 you should have someone record it. Ima subscribe
Thank you so much for this post... my mom sang that to me when I was a baby and she is dying currently. I also sang it as my son was dying to him. Be blessed and hug your loved ones... None of us know what time we may have. Much love to all...
I remember singing this song to my horse lucky before he passed away
That's so sad I'm so sorry.
omg I'm so sorry I have 3 horses I would die if something happened to one of my baby I hum this song to my horse her name is dream she was my first horse I would just die if I lost I'm so sorry for your los
+Aiyana Slaughter thanks ye... but I'm happy now that he's running in grassy fields up In the skies
yea he's not in pain anymore that a all that matters I hate how animals suffer from humans selfishness bye not putting them down when there in pain so they will have them longer
always tell my horses when you die I want you happy running and bucking in a pasture and have a heart attack not from colic or choking or breaking something
Thank you I need this to Fall asleep
wow.. Great
what a great piece of music. The variations, chord voicings, the changing passes of the duet harmony and inventive passing chords with their half step motion of tension and release behind the melody just slay me. It's a simple song but there is fine craftsmanship in the arrangement. I turn the lyric off in my head and just let the melody and changes roam in my head. It puts you in a trance. There's a bit of magic going on here.
I was crying and this song randomly came to my mind, so I searched it up thinking maybe it would actually calm me down and I would stop crying and could sleep like it makes babies do. It worked. Good way to calm yourself down apparently, adult or child :p
What a lovely version, clear, simple, softly sung but not sugary
Who agrees that a horror movie could totally be based off of this song?!
Edit: damn I left this comment 7 years ago and had no idea it had any traction haha
I would totally do that, If I had the like 4.5 million dollars to make it happen :x
Yeah, I think so. This song's been done so many different ways, but I can't believe no one's made a techno dance remix or a creepy, dark Japanese Vocaloid version of it yet.
It was, on the xfiles and on Sybil.
pangaeus What episode of X-Files?
Invocation, season 8 episode 5
We sang this in my middle school choir class when i was but a wee lad. This is amazing
I am the oldest of 5 grandchildren on my mothers side and my grandpa has sung this song to all 5 of us, my aunt had another baby 2 years ago and a few months ago i heard him singing this to him and i broke out into tears wondering why i was crying at a song i have never heard before (i didn't remember) and i just looked the lyrics up... i started crying again
....i literally have no opinion on this...
What a beautiful song! I have horses, and my daughter grew up with them too. This is to my sweet Kristin. I luv u so much! Mom
this song actually makes me wanna cry
I am from India,a non-english medium school student.This is the first time I am listening to any lullaby seriously,before this I was not aware of this term.This lullby opened a new interest for me.wow wow what a lullaby,background music,tone,modulations,salute to you Thanks a zillion.
This song makes me cry soo hard!! Omg... This really reminds me of Down by the Meadow a little bit, huh *crying* !! :'( :-(
I’m a new conductor, and this is a song I’m teaching my choir, I’m so excited!
Thank you everyone for the love on this video :^)) you're all so wonderful
loveemma09 not as much as you're voice is can can you do some other songs please
@@spookay69 this is Becky Jean williams
@@loveemma09 hi
My mom sang this to me when I was little, she's gone now, not dead but sick in the mind, I sing myself to sleep now, this was beautiful thank you for the lyrics.
when i was a baby i think i remember this lullaby and its making me cry cuz they died in a car crash now i feel this moment came cuz of them watching over me
There are going to be thousands of views just from me. This is one of the only songs that calms my newborn down and stops her from crying.
Even though I'm pretty sure this is a lullaby it still has a bit of a disturbing feel about it that I really like.
The disturbing feel you have about the song, is that the song originally has a kid dead in the field, birds pecking at his eyes instead of fluttering around them.
+Hans Lueth seriously? that's dark
the song was originally sung by a slave who had a baby, at the same time her owners did. she was forced to care for the owners child over her own, and she sung this song. the second verse was directed at the slave owner, not the child. (if I am remembering correctly)
I looked up the origins on google
This was my favorite lullaby grandpa used to sing it to me. I never realized how dark it was
This song puts my baby to sleep every time I sing it to her. I love this version...very soft and soothing.
Wanna know what this song means?
In the 1800s London there were two groups: Rich people and poor people. People usually had about 10 children since many did not survive. So that meant that children were getting sick all the time. London at the time was also very polluted and children were going to work at 5 years old, so no wonder they were getting sick. Sometimes when a child was so sick and the mother knew that they wouldn't make it through the night, the mothers would sing this song. 'When you wake you shall have all the pretty little horses' means that when the child woke up they would be in heaven and they could have all the horses.
Honestly, I swear every single lullaby has a dark meaning.
Yeah . Like ring around the rosy is based off of the Black Plague.
This song makes me realize how much comfort can come from a song. My older brother sang it to me and my twin before he passed away from Juvenal cancer. Not to long after that my parents split up and me and my twin brother we placed in two different homes, then I found out my twin had ran away from our dads house because he was being abused.
I thought my life was done, then one day I was in the park and I heard someone singing this, my twin and me haven't left each others side since then.
This song makes me feel so emotional. 😭
my daughter asks for this lullaby daily at bedtime. I have been playing it for her since she was about 3 and she's now 6. absolutely love the meaning behind the song, as sad as it is. plan on singing it to my little one coming soon in May. Thanks for posting :)
The 100.
when she kills atom
Poor atom
5 years later poor madi 😢
jason galibert the song absolutely broke my heart
rip Madi 😭😭😭😭
I used to play this song for my kids at naptime when I worked in daycare. I always found it so calming. It's been more than ten years since I've heard it. A couple lines suddenly came to me so I looked it up. Thanks for posting. It brought back some great memories.(and the scary thought that the children I watched are all now teenagers! lol.) God bless you. ;)
I think this is the message:
a mother trying to get her child to go to sleep,
the child knows that she may not be back,
and that the baby may not wake up at all...
So she's trying not to sleep,
but the mother is trying to say it's okay,
and that it will be better when she wakes.
"All the pretty little horses" is trying to reference that they will still be there when they wake up,
But the meadow is trying to say they won't be exactly the same.
That's how i enterpret it.
It's a folk song about a slave taking care of the masters baby, while her own baby is out in the field along being neglected.
+David Stefanowicz alone*
David is correct. very sad song
Why do you think that?
@@daviewavie112
that's a common theory. Not a lot of evidence for it, and probably not true.
I had a choir concert today and another group sang this song. It was so beautiful. :)
My Mamaw used to always sing this to me before she passed.. I can't sleep with out this..
Irish folk music,,,,, love it
we sang this in choir :D
same thats where i first heard it and i sing it out of no where sometimes, its a comfort in a way
Thank you. Just thank you, this helped me in a lot of traumatic situations. It's very soothing.
I heard this song from show “The 100“ and just suddenly hit me all at once. I didn’t know why and I later asked my mom and she told me she used to sing this to me and I was a baby. We might not be able to remember something but we will always feel it.
i feel so bad for madi
@@bshippee7504 The saddest death imo
Pretty Little Horses was written by a slave. She was raped and then they took her newborn baby and let it die and forced her to breastfeed her slave master’s baby. The part about a lamb in the field with butterflies getting in his eyes while he cried for his mom is super sad when you understand the context. She’s singing to a crying baby that will be beyond spoiled while her child is being swarmed by insects as it dies crying for her. I couldn’t imagine that kind of suffering but I’m glad she immortalized it in a song for those who forget or claim that it wasn’t that bad.
finally found the song Clarke and charlotte hum in the 100
Ciara Tobin lol me too😂😂 i' ve been looking for like 4 years😂😂
Woah what?! I thought it sounded familiar!
Sameeeee
Now it’s even sadder
rip madi, atom, and charlotte
I was never sung to as a kid. I first heard lullabies in movies. Flicka was where I heard this one. I spent the past seven years trying to find this song. This song is unbelievably comforting and a little unsettling to me. It's also extremely nostalgic. I love this song and I'll never forget it.
*cradles all my favorite characters that died and sings this*
*me holding barb holland, georgie denbrough, bob newby and jason blossom*
@ISABELLA HIBBARD Where is my boy Crowley? I need him back for the final season!
this is one of the most beautiful songs ive ever heard. i remember my mother used to sing it to me when i was very little.
Fun fact: I immediately downloaded sheet music, grabbed my cello, and played this for my horse
my friend introduced me to this song because her mother used to sing it to her and now her life has been torn up and i think it means alot to her and that means it does to me as well........ i have it on mp3 now thank you
I love this song but it sounds beautiful when you are humming it bc when I saw this on “the 100” and I was mesmerized and loved it but it has a scary vibe to it
5 years later, rip madi's childhood
I sing this to my daughter every single night, this is the only version I found that sounded so beautiful!
so calming
Yup
My mom used to sing this to me. Some of the only moments with her that didn't stress me out.
That's the lullaby Clarke was murmuring when she killed Atom #the100
Yah I heard that too haha
Seriously?! I didn't catch that! Pretty sure Clarke lied to poor old Atom though because i'm certain he didn't wake to have any pretty little horses at all since he kinda done kicked the bucket and all the horses have two heads so . . . nice going, Clarke! They say never lie to someone about to die but I guess Wanheda makes and breaks all the rules.
+Gweneth Cole does this also involve what happened yesterday on twitter??? 😂
Evangelia Μcridou I don't have twitter so I wouldn't know! Lol What happened yesterday on twitter? :D
+Gweneth Cole Ugh so many confusing things...😂 but not something important, it was just a huge misunderstanding.
been playing this video for my little one for years from kangaroo care in nicu to being requested to hear when tired or just wants to relax and cuddle love the voice so soothing
The 100 brought me here!!
poor madi
Beautiful, haunting, wondrous lullaby, my favorite.
I heard it from Flicka some years ago X3 it's so pretty
Beautiful song ,beautiful voice it's so calming to listen to.
I'm so jealous of her singing voice
Im going to Sing this song to my Children When i Grow up... So Beutiful. So Soft.
Why this does remind me of Nepeta finding Equius finding each other again
LightofTwelveAngels 《Water Shoes》 There is a video about that and it's very sad
ITS ME!
@@bugzone46 where?
@@Rain-ub9zc look up the song, but add homestuck to the search
This lullaby is amazing!!! I just love it.
if you have ever seen flicka she was Katie was singing this to flicka sitting on the side of the round pen to calm her down.
It was actually all the pretty little ponies she sang to flicka... search it on RUclips it's there
Thanks for uploading this all those years ago, when I would visit my cousins house and his parents would yell and yell (he was 8) I used to put this on for him and he would fall asleep, then there was me scared af he was gonna wake up lol.
her voice is so soothing. who sings this
Beck Jean Williams
+loveemma09 just saw that lol
There's something about it that's just so soothing.
this was my baby song. thank you,
I have to sing this and we don't sound this good
Same we also play the flute to this!
My Father and Mother used to sing this when I was a little baby, when I listened to it... I remembered them singing it to me, I almost wanted to cry because I don't have my mom anymore.
Am I the only one thinking that this lullaby was perfect for a horror movie or something? O.o
I think so, too xD
+Joyce Macayan Fun fact: Its actually, (i believe, it kinda reminds me of it) in a horror/thriller (i believe...) anime, Elfen Lied
Why? There's nothing scary about kids or lullaby's no matter how slow or annoying you make them. Why do people have an obsession with children when it comes to horror movies? Is every horror movie director a pedophile?
Jerry The Hellbound Really?!
colzbroeffect boss They way it was sung, and the music in how it is played and lastly, the lyrics.. there you can tell what the song suits to..
I discovered this song through a singing storybook that my son owns. I sought it out because I kept thinking that, for a compressed MIDI song, it has no business going as HARD as it does. 💯💯💯
Clarke hummed this to Atom in the 100!
rip madi's childhood
Also to Madi. RIP
This made my dog fall asleep! It's so pretty!
Heard this on X-files for the first time and so now it has creepy undertones for me.
It was driving me crazy trying to think where I heard this song before. Thank you for reminding me!
I first found this song in a lullabye book.... me and my sisters loved it.
My mom used to sing this to me. The nostalgia is killing me
My mother used to sing this when I was restless. I now have a creature under my own care who gets restless. I'm teaching myself the song so that I can try to calm him with a lullaby since nothing else works. (He's a cat btw)
i am surprised no one uses this song for a creepypasta O-O
My heart breaks to find quite a few comments thanking daycare for this precious, haunting lullabye, instead of mama and daddy and grandma and granddad.
My depression is gone.
Beautiful. I'm learning the song on ukelele. A big thank you for the words.
This sounds so beautiful, but I feel like it has an incredibly dark origin, maybe it's just me...
my dad would sing this to me every night when i was little. our relationship isn’t the best now but this sounds brings me peace almost like everything is still ok
This is a good song, but i feel very scared wen im hearing this
I thout this was a trowler then a ghoust face pops up.the voice it scary
you should supposedly its a lullaby that slave would sing to the plantations owners kid after their kid were left for dead
***** You should try the Current'93 version ;)
isabelle's right
Yeah, the slaves used to sing this to their kids when they would leave them in the Meadows to die. It would help keep them from crying as the mom walked away.