#it's so bad objectively but if one of my Latin students wrote a stupid song in Latin I would be sooooo happy

[heimeldat]

I was reminded earlier of a nonsense song I came up with when I was about 9 or 10, sung to the tune of "When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder." (You can't get it stuck in your head if you don't know the tune!)

There's a cabbage in a pear tree and a pear tree in your ear,

And your ear is in a big black hole in space,

And we're riding pretty horses as we gallop down the hill,

And we're gonna hit Prince Charming in the face.

I taught it to my siblings and we sang it so often our mom got annoyed. So being the smart-alecky little kid I was, I thought, "She can't tell me to stop singing it if it's in Latin because then it's educational." So anyway, I've had the Latin Cabbage Song stuck in my head all day. (Forgive the questionable translation choices; I was 10 and trying to fit a pre-existing tune.)

Est brassica in arborem et arbor in auream

Est in magnum cavum in intermundum

Et equamus pulchros equos et curramus de monte

Et feribo Reg Charming in facie

#random thoughts #latin #childhood memories #idk it just popped in my head and v wouldn't go away so I'm sharing it #it's so bad objectively but if one of my Latin students wrote a stupid song in Latin I would be sooooo happy #i wonder if my Latin teacher at the time ever heard it... i'm sure I sang it at school too #why are there so many uses of accusative “in” when I clearly knew how to use the ablative properly in the last line? idk