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Don't Be Like the Dodo Bird

Title

Don't Be Like the Dodo Bird

Post date

07/11/2016 - 09:24

Tags

lullaby acapella

Liner Notes

This one was another song I sang to my kids to try to convince them to go to sleep. Apparently this song was "too sad" according to my son (5), though my daughter (7) enjoyed it.

I suspect many people didn't realize the real cause of the dodo bird's demise was failing to go to sleep at bedtime.

Lyrics

Don't be like the dodo bird. Go to sleep at bedtime. Don't be like the dodo bird. Go to sleep at bedtime.

When people came to the land of the bird, the dodo didn't go to sleep. Instead it was awake deep in the night, exploring their cities.

Don't be like the dodo bird. Go to sleep at bedtime. Don't be like the dodo bird. Go to sleep at bedtime.

And when humans saw the dodo bird stumbling around their towns in a stupor the humans thought, "Hey, hey, dodo bird, I think I will make a hat of you."

Don't be like the dodo bird. Go to sleep at bedtime. Don't be like the dodo bird. Go to sleep at bedtime.

And the hats the humans made, oh yes. Were the most beautiful of all, you guessed. But every hat was a dodo slain, and so there are no dodo birds.

Don't be like the dodo bird. Go to sleep at bedtime. Don't be like the dodo bird. Don't sleep walk in others' towns.