There is one very interesting and remarkable idea relating to songs. It is
believed that a language is easier to express in songs than in speech. Julian Dakin
asserts that “for most learners, singing or reciting a rhyme is much easier than
talking” (p. 5), and T. Murphey’s utterance is also very similar: “It seems easier to
sing language than to speak it” (p. 6). We can find some reasonable explanation for
this fact when considering the beginning of a child’s life. The very first child’s
utterances are sounds like humming, spluttering, muttering, whooping, which
resembles more the sound of singing than talking. T. Murphey (p. 7) writes more
precisely: “The singing of songs resembles what Piaget (1923) described as
egocentric language, in which children talk, with little concern for an addressee.
They simply enjoy hearing themselves repeat”. In the chapter about beginning of
music is written, that in prehistoric times the vocalization of song was more usual
than of speech, which might mean that singing was more natural than talking, and
which might mean there was and maybe there still is some natural inborn disposition
in everyone as far as the attitude to singing is concerned. And “it could be that the
need for egocentric language never really leaves us and is fulfilled partly through
song” (T. Murphey, p. 7).