I don't have a definite answer for this, but I think the question I would ask to someone who might know better is this: If, somehow, there was an invisible mint that magically put extra dollars into people's pockets, and we somehow managed to collectively keep that a secret from the world's governments...what would happen?
I'm pretty sure the concept of 'inflation' is purely arbitrary: if value/currency exists that the powers that be simply aren't aware of, there's no way they can factor it into their make-believe money games. This is why counterfeiting works perfectly fine on the small scale. ^^
The only issue that remains is whether or not the system can make them aware of it at some point...which is what the 'invisible mint' question should clear up. I think one of these things would happen:
A) No one notices/cares. Business owners would see their profits going up and decide not to look a gift horse in the mouth. Economists would see the increase in spending per capita, but chalk it up to some BS 'trickle down' program finally kicking in and call it good. =/ Everything will be hunky-dory until inflation slowly creeps back into the economy over time.
B) Somehow, people's increase in spending power would force a new level of capitalist evil to kick in and 'rebalance' the system. Maybe CEO's would collectively raise the price of literally everything so they can go back to bleeding people dry, or politicians would suddenly decide that taxes are good and we need a LOT more of them.
I'd bet on B. ^^; Although I'd love to hear an expert opinion.
Maybe it's because I've been exposed to Japanese for a while, but I don't see anything that strange about it. We do it in English too, actually...like when we say "Off we go", or "United we stand". It's not the normal word order, but no one blinks an eye when they hear those phrases.
Syntax is generally very flexible; I don't know of any languages (yet) where a little word order switching isn't allowed at least some of the time. ^^;
I think it's just cultural evolution of at work. When a song becomes so old that its original context, or even the meaning of the words themselves fall out of the collective memory...we'll take it if it sounds cute. That's all. ^^;
To be honest, I think a lot of popular/folk songs of that age and older tend to be "cuter" in composition because they were meant to be sung and interacted with...before the age of radio and records made passive listening more accessible to the public.
They are designed to be fun and catchy and easy to learn, and so it kinda makes sense that they get resurrected to be marketed to children.
