The song Annie's pupils are singing in the school house, while Melanie watches the birds gathering their ranks in the playground, waiting to ambush them, is "Risseldy Rosseldy" . It's an old Mother Goose nonsense rhyme song that kids have been singing for decades. Hitchcock uses this music to build suspense, because, in part, he makes the decision early on not to use any conventional symphonic background music in the score; because he wants to establish an aura of brutal unvarnished realism for the murder scenes; the attack scenes; and all the disasters that go on. Without conventional music he has to use devices like the school children singing to build suspense. The lyrics of this traditional nursery rhyme/hymn go like this: "I married my wife In the month of June, Risseldy, rosseldy, Mow, mow, mow, I carried her off In a silver spoon, Risseldy, Rosseldy, Hey bambassity, Nickety, nackety, Retrical quality, Willowby, wallowby, Mow, mow, mow."

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