That woe is me,
Poor child for thee!
And ever morn and day,
For thy parting
Neither say nor sing
By by lul-ly lulay!
That is from the Coventry Carol. I sing it to my children every year at Christmas. Then I tell them the story of how Herod was so jealous that he ordered all young boys under three to be killed. And I tell David that I would never allow Herod's soldiers to have killed him. Or Elsa. Or Sam. Which is clearly bullshit. It is a hard and terrifying fact that we can't always protect our children from madmen. A madman came into an elementary school and shot 20 first graders, while teachers and the principal died trying to save them. By by lu-ly lulay, babies. We are heartsick.
