If there is a contented lullaby at all, it is the lullaby of the contented producer, who has made great profits out of this prohibition.
Now, after two years of prohibited imports we do not hear any contented lullaby from the surfeited consumer.
It suits politicians, who think only of the short term, to sing lullabies to an electorate always willing to sleep.
You never heard a lullaby sung in an institution.
Let us not mistake the contented lullaby of the surfeited consumer for the busy murmur of the working hive.
It had tended to become something of a lullaby—a deceptive lullaby.
The rocking 12/8 rhythm and the pre-verbal 'shoodoo, shoo-be-doo' of the chorus connote the lullaby and the 'shh' sounds that are used to 'hush' crying babies.
Gershwin's lullaby is indeed jazzy, but not modern.
