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Not coming to a Wee Sing album near you

Here are a few stanzas from Isaac Watts' Divine and Moral Songs for Children . I don't know if I would sing these to future grandchildren, and I doubt Wee Sing will be making a recording anytime soon.  Maybe kids (and parents) were tougher back then. SONG 16. Against Quarrelling and Fighting.  Let dogs delight to bark and bite,  For God hath made them so;  Let bears and lions growl and fight,  For 'tis their nature too. But, children, you should never let  Such angry passions rise;  Your little hands were never made  To tear each other's eyes. SONG 18. Against scoffing and calling Names.  When children in their wanton play  Serv'd old Elisha so;  And bid the prophet go his way,  'Go up, thou bald-head, go:' God quickly stop'd their wicked breath,  And sent two raging bears,  That tore them limb from limb to death,  With blood, and groans, and tears. Grea...