reverie
You know the bugle they play to wake up soldiers - I think it's called reverie?

Imagine instead of a bugle you get Reverie sung (screeched) cheerily by your mother, blaringly projected with great vim at the absolute top range of the human voice in exactly the bugle's pitch and rhythm:

"You GoTTA get Up, You goTTa Get UP, YOU GOTTA GET UP in the MorrRRNNnnnning!"

My good god if it had been followed seconds later by the sound of a sniper's shot piercing her skull and dropping her to the floor - we all would have cried big crocodile tears of happiness and wept at the joy of sleep uninterrupted ever again.

but no... no such kindness for us...

This happened Every morning. EVERY Morning.

...

sometimes she would walk through our rooms and keep singing the rest of the bugle part over and over - just a loud piercing "ya ta tatatatata" while beating on pans with a ladle until we couldn't hide beneath pillows or blankets any longer and ...

...

(sob)

I can't go on... never again! the memories ... they haunt me...

(weeping)

but you know I'll do it to my kids =)
( Allisade would love to hear from you, Mon 24 Nov 2008, 15:18, 2 replies)

The tune is called 'Reveille'
which I expect you already knew but had blocked out in your horror.

Mums're bastards, mwa-ha-ha-ha!
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Mon 24 Nov 2008, 15:33, closed)

Indeed.
Reverie is often what the reveille call rudely yanks you out of.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 10:17, closed)