Singing to sleep - fave songs?

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

What are the fave songs/lullabies your kids lilke you to sing when they aren't well or need to be sung to sleep?

DD1 used to love twinkle twinkle little star .. normal i assume
DD2 has been quite unsettled today, tried twinkle twinkle, mary had a little lamb and rock-a-bye baby NOPE the song she shut up and settled to THE ALPHABET SONG!

[Sterla]

For some reason I have always used Teddy Bear Picnic for DS - no idea why, but it seems to work .

[~Hestia~]

The Nanny theme song! No joke, since he was a tiny baby it's ALWAYS calmed him down!

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

The Nanny theme song! No joke, since he was a tiny baby it's ALWAYS calmed him down!

Hehe how cute...

[littlelara]

I sing 'I see the moon' every night for ds, have since the day he was born.

[~MummaBear~]

I sing 'I see the moon' every night for ds, have since the day he was born.

I sing this to DS too, every night since he was born, Well apart from the odd time i am not here.. He will not sleep now until i have done it. he is 4 now and i dont see it stopping anytime soon!

DS1 and DD Love ' you are my sunshine'

[Epacris]

DS and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE singing Tomorrow from Annie the musical. But it’s a bit of a belter so it doesn’t really work as a calming down bedtime lullaby .... but we do like looking forward to a new day.

[helle]

"glumph" went the little green frog ... Why? I have no freaking idea!

[Oorki Galoorki]

we have been singing to DS for yrs Jingle bells, twinkle little star and hickory ****ory
DD has rock a bye baby, twinkle twinkle and insy wincy

[~me~]

My DS2 who will be 4 in two weeks
I walk him to bed and then lift him and sing Rock a Bye baby and rock him then drop him into bed (literally) when the cradle comes down we sing and down will come 'benny boy' cradle and all. He loves it, probably be still doing it into his teens Lol!
I can't remember how it all started, think it was around when he was 3 and being difficult to put to bed? I do remember DH was the one to start it and now it just happends every night.
DS1 always loved Twinkle Twinkle little star as a baby and toddler.
DD just loves any kind of music.

[MissM]

We sing 'You are my sunshine' our lyrics are:

You are my sunshine, My only sunshine,
You make me happy when skies are grey
You'll neva know **Insert DD's name** how much I love you
So please dont take my **Insert DD's name* away

She sings it to me too but says 'Mummy'

Sometimes it brings tears to my eyes .. reminds me of when she was a bubba and i used to rock her to sleep singing it. Time flies, and my bubba is growin!

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

OceanPrincess - I have used Lullaby too, but the bit that makes me teary is the "someday your child may cry but if you sing this lullaby it will never die, that's how you and I must be."

I also sing By the River of Babylon right now, but DS has started to sing along so it will have to change soon. We've gone through A Mouse Lived In A Windmill, Walking on Sunshine, 500 miles and You to me are everything like that. I tend to use hymns that calm me down, especially if he wakes at night! I do it more for me than him.

[Doodlebug]

When ds1 was little the only thing that would ever calm him down was walking around the house holding him singing Yellow Submarine! No idea why!?!?! In the car however, he'd go silent the second I put 'my' music on. GnR, Def Leppard, ACDC etc... Now we get in the car to go to kindy and he'll request Def Leppard mostly!!! I'm a proud mummy!!!

[Lenny]

Twinkle Twinkle for DS1 and I like to sing "if i could save time in a bottle" for DS2.

[onthefly]

Used to be Swing Low, more recently Brown Girl in the Ring became a favourite.

[STARRYSKY]

yep, we do twinkle twinkle here too, theres a bit of a pattern....start off with twinkle, then silent night, then come o ye faithful, then away in a manger (but I change the words, "my little boy jacob lay down his sweet head" sorry if that offends any religious types..!) then somewhere over the rainbow then the alphabet song LOL! By the end of that he will be nodding off...most of the time...

[OceanPrincess]

"Lullaby" by Billy Joel used to work for DD... I used to get a bit teary singing it to her too Such pretty lyrics... "Goodnight my angel time to go to sleep, and save these questions for another day..." but the bit that always gets me is this bit:

I promised I would never leave you
And you should always know
Where ever you may go
No matter where you are
I never will be far away

Or "Goodnight sweetheart" from Three Men and a Little Lady, not sure if that's the right name for it but you know the one!

[~Kim~]

well I sing...a lot. So I sing what ever pops into my head.

Alphabet/twinkle twinkle/baa baa black sheep (well they're all the same tune anyway), It's a long way to Tipperary, Sadie the Cleaning Lady, Down by the station, My old man's a dustman, I've been working on the railway, catch a falling star....what ever nursery rhyme pops up next.
Sadly I can usually get through my whole (very long) repertoire before the little rat will actually go to sleep these days....