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The mysterious extra verses of “Come Little Children.”
I’ll keep this short and simple. Back in 2006 a message board got a post that claimed that the song “Come little Children” from Disney’s Hocus Pocus was based on a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. The person even posted the “original poem.”
Let me debunk this right here. There is no poem by Edgar Allan Poe called “Come little Children” or “Garden of Shadows” that was ever published or had even gone unpublished. The writing style doesn’t even match Poe.
Most of the uncredited music in Hocus Pocus was by James Horner.
This 2006 message board post is the oldest appearance of the “Garden of Shadows” version of “Come little Children.” But somehow the story of the extended lyrics spread all over the Internet and even some professional singers mistook these new lyrics as real and recorded versions of the song with the “Missing” verses.
The reason Disney has never scooped up the popular, longer version of the song and used it, is fear of the lyricist coming forward and wanting money. No one knews who wrote those extra lyrics or why they wanted to credit Edgar Allan Poe for them.
Now twenty-years-later no one knows who really came up with with the “Garden of Shadows” version of Come Little Children. And there are multiple recordings of that version of the song.
I’ll keep this short and simple. Back in 2006 a message board got a post that claimed that the song “Come little Children” from Disney’s Hocus Pocus was based on a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. The person even posted the “original poem.”
Let me debunk this right here. There is no poem by Edgar Allan Poe called “Come little Children” or “Garden of Shadows” that was ever published or had even gone unpublished. The writing style doesn’t even match Poe.
Most of the uncredited music in Hocus Pocus was by James Horner.
This 2006 message board post is the oldest appearance of the “Garden of Shadows” version of “Come little Children.” But somehow the story of the extended lyrics spread all over the Internet and even some professional singers mistook these new lyrics as real and recorded versions of the song with the “Missing” verses.
The reason Disney has never scooped up the popular, longer version of the song and used it, is fear of the lyricist coming forward and wanting money. No one knews who wrote those extra lyrics or why they wanted to credit Edgar Allan Poe for them.
Now twenty-years-later no one knows who really came up with with the “Garden of Shadows” version of Come Little Children. And there are multiple recordings of that version of the song.
