My friend’s just-turned-4-year-old daughter was sitting in the kitchen this weekend playing with one of her dolls. She started singing to the doll the following lyrics, with a relatively sophisticated tune:
“I won’t be a sinner for you,
Oh I won’t be a sinner for you,
No, I won’t be a sinner for you -
Because I DIED, DIED DIED!!!”
We have been googling like crazy and can find nothing that even resembles the above.
Not only that, but she doesn’t attend church or Sunday school or anything - her family is atheist - so there’s little chance she might be misinterpreting a hymn. I suppose there’s a possibility she may have picked something up from a carer at day care, or be a child genius, but I am coming down on the side of “possessed by the same demon that Robert Johnson sold his soul to”. Anyone got any ideas?
I haven’t been able to find anything either, but – could you post a recording of that kid, so I can use her as my ringtone? I’d love to hear a 4-year-old singing those lyrics.
I too, would love a recording of that! That sounds so cool! I have no idea what it could be, though… have you asked her? She might at least be able to give a name of a friend or babysitter or someone that she associates with the song.
Dang! Missed the edit window! I did a little searching, but don’t think any of these are what you’re looking for. Not that they’re not worth looking at.
Only lyric with “sinner” that pops into my mind is
“No, no I never was a sinner – tell me what else can I do
Second best is what you get – till you learn to bend the rules”
from “Crumblin’ Down” by John Mellencamp.
Probably not what the child was singing unless a great lock of her hair was blocking one eye as she vaulted over parking meters while wearing penny loafers.
When I was a child I’d sometimes see an old lady in a park who would chat to me and tell me stories from the bible (I have never been religious, but I humoured her and listened.) Maybe something similar has happened to her and she’s put little bits and pieces into her own song?
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My friend’s just-turned-4-year-old daughter was sitting in the kitchen this weekend playing with one of her dolls. She started singing to the doll the following lyrics, with a relatively sophisticated tune:
My cousin When she about the same age was acting strange; saying things she couldn’t know, talking to thin air, acting out, cruel or tricky… that sort of things. We asked, she said “her friend” who no one else could see. When she was asked who was her friend she replies “Belial”.
I know this sounds hokey but we found it was a demon. A very powerful one. I was young at the time, and after that my mother forbid contact. So I’m not sure how it was handled. But I do know she saw a priest and my uncle had the house blessed.
We are very religious, Roman Catholic. Our people are very superstitious and possession is not uncommon in our country. I once had a girlfriend who would blackout and have fits of rage and incredible strength. It was believed that she was possessed but that happened before we got together. As I said I was young and people love to gossip as well stories change or can become exaggerated with time and this took place more than ten years ago.
So allot of stories but not allot of proof. I’m not too sure if I believe in demons, but have had personal experience with ghosts.
I know allot of people will make fun of this, do your best to pay no mind to the nonbelievers.
If you really want to help the child ask her if she has special friend, see if she reacts to a crucifix, and seek the help of a priest, but first make sure its not the baby sitter isn’t just playing a bad joke on the family!!!
The ‘babysitters’ who observed this were her mother and grandmother, who wouldn’t make this sort of thing up. She does have an imaginary friend - a goblin she calls Captain Howdy who lives in her play teepee.
[Speculative musing] I do wonder why it is only Catholics who get possessed by the kind of demon that only Catholic priests can dispell… What if it were an Obeah spirit or a kitsune-gami? Surely, if one accepts the mythology of traditional Catholic possession, a crucifix would be useless then? [/SM]
in order for the child to be “possessed”, would the family not need to follow one of the mythologies that would allow possession? i agree that it always seems to be catholics that get possessed! LOL! of course, in my own bizarro belief system, my first guess would be a past life memory. but again, i think they would need to believe in that, too. encourage them to write down the words to the song so they don’t forget it. if for nothing else to embarrass the little girl in 10 or 11 years!
Getting back to reality, my best guess is that she heard a song with that tune from either somebody at daycare or an electronic source, possibly distorted or changed the words in her little 4-year-old head, and came up with what you heard.
The closest song I can think of is “I Ain’t Gonna Sin No More”, and I can’t really remember how that goes.
Could she be singing some garbled version of this song?
…this seems to be some sort of Christian rock group. I don’t listen to Christian rock, so I couldn’t tell you what the tune’s like, but the end lyrics are suggestive of what the child is singing.
