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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

"Come Little Children" By Edgar Allan Poe


Here's a little poem by Mr. Poe that in fact is the lyrics of one  of our background songs. The first time that we heard this song was in 1993 on a halloween movie "Hocus Pocus" from Disney, they had to change the word "Shadows" for "Magic", because it was a movie for children. Actually the original version sounds creepy, like a Psychophony, that's why we choose this version sung by a  girl in Youtube.

Anyways, here's the link just in case you want to hear the original version...


Come little children
I'll take thee away, into a land
of Enchantment

Come little children
the time's come to play
here in my garden
of Shadows

Follow sweet children
I'll show thee the way
through all the pain and
the Sorrows

Weep not poor childlen
for life is this way
murdering beauty and
Passions

Hush now dear children
it must be this way
to weary of life and
Deceptions

Rest now my children
for soon we'll away
into the calm and
the Quiet

Come little children
I'll take thee away, into a land
of Enchantment

Come little children
the time's come to play
here in my garden
of Shadows

54 comments:

  1. Omg!! i love this!! and also congrats on the blog it was the best one !! love you both ♥♥ grace :D

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    1. Garden Of Magic
      from HOCUS POCUS*
      Text based on the poem “Come Little Children” by Edgar Allan Poe
      Additional text by Brock Walsh
      Music by James Horner
      (c) 1993 Walt Disney Music Company
      All Rights Reserved Used by Permission
      *Adapted lyrics not used in film
      Reprinted by Permission of Hal Leonard Corporation

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    2. Garden Of Magic
      from HOCUS POCUS*
      Text based on the poem “Come Little Children” by Edgar Allan Poe
      Additional text by Brock Walsh
      Music by James Horner
      (c) 1993 Walt Disney Music Company
      All Rights Reserved Used by Permission
      *Adapted lyrics not used in film
      Reprinted by Permission of Hal Leonard Corporation

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  2. I would love to hear this whole poem sung by Sarah Jessica Parker dressed as Sarah Anderson from Hocus Pocus. The movie version is too short...but magical.

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    1. I totally agree with you

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    2. there once was a linsey and a girl gone stray, 18 years of hell no play. hate crime not it its all right, as long as daddy bedd eats high. little seet couchie heaads on minhe, burns with the flesh as the blood fleeps by, tyle my yle lee did cry, little boys tooshie is a alliby, fake ones big ones its raping me, watch as dedee cancels the. linsey broom lil girls room, brians here with a knife flesh wound. oh how i miss dad.

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  3. Edger Allan Poe is one of the best poets. I always like his poetry. June

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    1. Yeah, me too. But this was never published by Poe, and is totally NOT his style of writing.

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  4. i love Edgar Allan Poe he's my favorite poet, im just in love with all of his work

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  5. Lovely song tanks for the information i've been looking up for this

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  6. Oooohhhh!!!!!!!!!!I didn't know that it was Poe's poem!!!!!!!!Great info!!!!!!!!!!

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    1. That's because this isn't his work. It was done by the director of the hocus pocus movie and then turned into a full poem that people accredited to edgar allan poe

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    2. So your saying they wrote a song for a movie then right before putting the song in changed the lyrics. Yet there are only two verses that are in the movie.

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    3. The first two verses are indeed written for the movie Hocus Pocus and were in 2002 re-written along side with adding other verses by a site going by a name Poe3 (poetry) hence the confusion with Poe.

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  7. Who read the poem in the melody of Hocus Pocus? I know i did.

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    1. I did. Lol. I sang it actually in the style of "Supernatural's" version. I love that version. Lol

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  8. Love the site, love the blog! Great music, great theme, all around Kudos :D

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  9. Sorry to tell you all, this is not poes work. This was in fact written for the movie and then expanded upon to create this full poem. There is no proof outside of the Internet that poe ever wrote this. And I have done many uni assessments around poe and his works and I have never come across this in any of his works. And in fact, other people who have also based their studies around mr poe didn't see this poem until 1993 when that movie first came out and then there were people saying that because it is a dark style poem it has to be edgar allan poes work. But it's not. It was written by a mr Warner for the movie and that is fact. Many people have found links online saying its poe, but it is easy to post something that people then take as fact. None of the works that I haven ever seen of his make a reference to this. As I said, up until this movie, no one had ever heard this poem.

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    1. The directors of the movie only USED part of the poem and changed the word shadows into magic because it would be too dark for children. Poe DID write the poem, the only reason you couldn't find it was because you didn't try looking for it, only when the movie came out was when you started researching it. So your answer is invalid. Thank You

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    2. Actually, if you bothered to do PROPER research you'd know that there is NO EVIDENCE whatsoever to link this to Poe other than internet propaganda. This poem is NOT included in his Complete Works for a reason. He did not write it. There is no record of the poem anywhere before the 1990's.

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    3. Guys nobody cares
      Just enjoy the poem

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  10. To everyone who thinks that Mr. Edgar Allan Poe wrote this, then you are one of those sad little folks who take 'Internet Propaganda" for fact without doing any real research whatsoever. My college professor her at UGA who actually has a Masters degree for the study of famous poets (both American and European) of the past three centuries, when showed this poem, said for a fact that it is NOT Poe's work. While he does use lots of words, phrases, metaphors, and idioms that were the staple of the Victorian era, he NEVER used the word "thee" in any of his works as that was Middle English language. The meter of this poem is also not one he ever used either. Add to the fact that my professor has over two dozen first edition books of Mr. Poe's works (some are kept in archive given their condition) and this does not appear in ANY of those works, it can be said that "Come Little Children" is definitely not one of his works.

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    1. Sorry to have to say this but the in Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe.
      The word Thee is used in the poem To _ _
      As well as in the Scenes from "Politian" A unpublished drama . written by Mr. Poe.
      Now as I haven't asked Mr. Poe himself if these works have been rewritten or reworded I'll leave it at never say never. And unless we can speak to those whom wrote the words at the time they wrote them we are all seeing what was reprinted at a much later date.

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  11. Great music! I love this blog. I couldn't stop singing the song:D

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  12. Here's a link to someone who has done extensive research about this poem and has come to the conclusion that it is likely based off of Poe's work but was not an poe original. They found that the first verse was written for the '93 movie Hocus Pocus but calls the next two verses mystery verses since they could not find the author.

    http://www.dmelhoff.com/who-wrote-come-little-children

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  13. i love this song/poemhttp://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=come%20little%20children&source=video&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDYQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D1t8-_pI1-9Q&ei=j4WoUqSrL4rIkAebiYGoBg&usg=AFQjCNG853K0TGCbzwWt5uxQYj3J6YumaA&bvm=bv.57799294,d.eW0

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    1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t8-_pI1-9Q‎

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  14. It's obviously not Poe but its written well and KateTheGreat is an awesome singer. I love playing this song during the Halloween song. This, Mordreds Lullaby by Heather Dale, and Hypnos lullaby. Aah. Good stuff.

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  15. This poem isn't by Edgar Allan Poe. It's by John Debney. And the "Supernatural version" wasn't made by Supernatural. Katethegreat did a cover of the song from the movie Hocus Pocus that used the poem as lyrics for the song. Obviously somebody who was a serious fan of both the song and Supernatural used a variety of scenes from the TV show to make one beautiful video that perfectly goes along with the song.

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  17. HI. I too have been in love with this song from Hocus Pocus and I too went on the many many websites with the mention of this song and of Edgar Allen Poe. I WANT it to be by him but like it's been posted on several academic sites there is not any known proof of it in print.
    However, the writer of a book with the same title did contact both movie composers and kate covington from youtube. He got answers stating that the music Sarah's Theme ( come little children) was orchestrated by James Horner and the Song Lyrics themselves were in fact written by song Composer Brock Walsh, BROCK WALSH whom was quoted as saying that HE wrote the verse for the movie but that HE was influenced by his life long passion for Edgar Allen Poe's work. and it was taken out of context that people believed that Poe wrote the first verse when infact it was written by Brock Walsh and it credited for it on the disney music websites and IMDB and in movie soundtrack websites.
    The song with the extra verses are sung and posted on youtube by katethegreat kate covington + come little children on youtube
    i love this song dearly and spent wayyyy too many nights searching and reading all the websites that had the mere mention of this.

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  18. this is a fantastic song, i gentley sang this to my daughter and she loved it that much that she went to sleep.

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  19. No matter who wrote this is really nice. I only ask one thing. Please fix the spelling of the word "children" in the fourth paragraph.
    Thank you

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  20. I've heard a couple versions of the song but I never realized that it was originally written by Edgar Allen poe! Favorite song + favorite poet = I'm in frickin' paradise!!!

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  21. This is not actually by Edgar Allen Poe. I'm a literary historian / collector. I have the most obscure works of Poe and can recognize his style. this is closer to Yeats and yet it it's not his either. The urban legend that this is by Poe started on the Internet in 2006. You won't find any claim of that before then. The original lyrics are by the late James Hornor, the rest were by an anonymous message board poster who wanted to trick some Goths.

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  22. This poem is about murdering little kids. How can any of you say its beautiful or sweet or relaxing? Scumbags

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    1. 1: No it isn't.
      2: It IS beautiful.
      3: Of course a simple minded person would like you would use a slur like that. Try harder.

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  23. This is my favorite poem from Mr. Poe

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  24. I love this Poem so much, but hate how little info I can find on it all I find is the stupid disney version. I hate it so much, I want to know about this amazing poem <3

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  25. Look nobody agrees on who the author is. The topic points to Poe, but everyone says that the style of the writing says otherwise. I honestly believe it was Poe. Like somebody else said, and thanks to them for saying it, you didn't hear the song until you heard it in a movie. Therefore you didn't research it until then and somebody else claims to have written the poem.

    All I can say is that either everyone can agree on who the author is, or we can say it was Poe. The choice is yours.i am a firm believer in the fact that it was indeed Poe and that maybe he decided to try something different. Nobody can tell me that they would like to write the same way every time they wrote.

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  26. I may be wrong but I swore I heard this song and or poem growing up before the hocus pocus movie even came out but I could be wrong.

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  27. How to ruin a good thing: start an argument about it online.
    No one appreciates being berated and no one thinks you're clever. You just ruined something good by being a self-righteous ass about it.

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  28. I see a lot of debate of whether or not Poe wrote this. He did not write this. No proper Poe scholar even remotely considers this as being his. Please, please do your research before claiming things such as this. Read Quinn, Silverman, Hervey Allen—any of these Poe biographers do not mention this, nor do they attribute it to Poe. Thomas Ollive Mabbott did not attribute this to Poe. Poe's words are far better than the lyrics of this song, which are, albeit, good in their own right. Check out the Richmond Poe Museum's website for an article that debunks these. An official museum has debunked this. Therefore, wouldn't you agree this isn't Poe's?

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  29. https://dmelhoff.com/blog/who-really-wrote-the-poem-come-little-children/

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  30. I agree that Poe did not write this. Whoever did should get props though. Love it.

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  31. Perhaps it may be that my mind is wrought
    To a fever* by the moonbeam that hangs o’er,
    But I will half believe that wild light fraught
    With more of sovereignty than ancient lore
    Hath ever told-or is it of a thought
    The unembodied essence, and no more

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  32. Into a land of enchantment...

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  33. this gave me chills and makes me want more to the story behind this song

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  34. It's not by Edgar Allen Poe. This is100% a myth. The lyrics were written by Brock Walsh and the music by James Horner.

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