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At least in the USA, children's music overlaps significantly with Christian music, but there seem to be relatively few shared melodies. Rather, the overlap seems to come from Christian children's groups who sing both types of songs.

God has promised me / wisdom from above  (5.5)

I will have success if understanding I will love (7.6 ~ 6.7)

If I choose to make / wisdom my life's goal (5.5)

He will then reward me with much honor as I grow (7.6 ~ 6.7)


 * This isolated (and unknown on Google) church song has a similar melody to ones that I've heard in other places, but they just aren't the same. It is a very simple melody and there may be no more to it than that.  The melody is entirely trochees and cretics.  This is common enough in songs that there must be more to it than that ... the pitches of the notes might be what stands out to me.

One of the few true shared melodies is Glory be to God on High. Louie, Louie (which became Pharaoh, Pharaoh) is another. I suspect there are many isolated examples created at single churches that never spread, but I can't remember any from my own childhood that I haven't also seen elsewhere. Joyful, Joyful (We Adore Thee) can be considered another example, but the original lyrics were also religious. I've heard some churches have repurposed Jeremiah was a Bullfrog, not surprising given its title. Lastly, the melody of the Internationale has appeared in a children's song How did Moses part the Red Sea?

I have heard some people say that some Christian songs have transitioned to popular songs by the reverse process. I have found few examples: This Little Girl of Mine is derived from a gospel song, This Little Light of Mine, and there is a children's version on YouTube as well. Michael Row the Boat Ashore and the Battle Hymn of the Republic have not been turned into new songs, but the religious verses are sometimes omitted.

List of songs that rhyme a word with itself

 * 1) War Pigs by Black Sabbath (in their masses / at black masses)
 * 2) Freedom of Choice  by DEVO (freedom of choice / freedom from choice)
 * 3) I would walk 500 miles by Proclaimers (most of the song consists of repeated rhymes)
 * 4) Painted Black by the Rolling Stones (want it painted black / want them to turn black)
 * 5) Meet Virginia by Train (wants to be the queen / wanna be the queen)
 * 6) Walkin' in a Winter Wonderland (build a snowman / Mr. snowman)
 * 7) There is a Party by DJ BoBo (rhymes "dream" twice and "thing" twice and cannot be explained by the rhythm)
 * 8) Savage by Megan Thee Stallion (edge-up all I'm showing / AP all I'm showing)
 * 9) Iko Iko

near rhymes

 * 1) shade by metrics rhymes light with lights
 * 2) cyndi lauper all through the night  rhymes "end" with "ends"

Note: according to the lyrics accessible online, Setting the Woods on Fire by Mason Proffit actually does not rhyme any words with themselves, and Im only putting this here because I misheard the lyrics as rhyming "poker" with itself and thought i might have heard "prouder" with itself as well. Though, honestly, Im not convinced ... there are different versions of this song, and it sure sounds like he's using "poker" twice in a row on the version I have.

I exclude "post-rhymes" where a word is sung over and over but is not the most prominent part of the verse. For example, the Beatles' Hey Jude is listed on TVTropes as an example of this, since it rhymes better with itself, but it can also be analyzed as a rhyme of start and heart. Likewise Behind Blue Eyes from the Who rhymes sad man and bad man, not just "man" and "man". On the other hand, the Savage song does not have an internal rhyme in the two lines ending in "all I'm showin'",.

I exclude childrens songs because some songs meant for very young children have lyrics that change very little from line to line ... e.g. Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes for toddlers sometimes just repeats the same line over and over and focuses on the body movements.

Spondees
Childrens music also makes frequent use of spondees, but sometimes it is difficult to judge whether a syllable is truly stressed or not. The clearest example I can think of is a Christian song where the tempo increases with each verse, and contains increasingly upbeat lines such as Do you know He loves you so and He has paid for all your sins? where it seems each note is the same pitch and loudness as the one before it except the very last word. The sheet music indicates that "only" nine notes in a row are the same.

Cocomelon's socks song has this .... its melody is It Aint Gonna Rain No Mo'. Beatles' Lucy in the Sky sounds like it has a spondee with the MIDI version but it doesnt seem to be like that in the song itself. There's a small chance that this may have contirbuted to my thinking of Beatles as children's music(!!!!) when I was young, but I think it's just because my mother often played Beatles music when I was a child and I didn't really separate it from my own music at the time. I think there are other ways in which the Beatles resemble a traditional children's band, but that they're more perceptible from a child's point of view. I remember as a teenager or possibly even a young adult being surprised that the Beatles had recodeded a song called Sexy Sadie as it seemed their songs were entirely without references to sexual activity from what I remmebered.

cocomelon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2cRB8faeuw has Cocomelon branding in Jan 2017?? I suspect YouTube allows heavy content producers to edit old videos, and that they dont bother publicizing this feature because it's only available to a very small number of users and the demand for access to this feature from the wider public would lead to bad publicity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlIY8sfbVCE shows editing of both audio and video

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