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  1. #1
    BellyBelly Life Member

    Nov 2003
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    Songs/Music

    I was wondering if anyone has any special songs or music that that they play for their baby (not really nursery rhyme stuff but just music that's special to you)? I'd like to put together a CD that I can just have on in the background during pg as well as after the birth. At the moment a song that really means a lot to us is What A Wonderful World/Somewhere Over The Rainbow by Israel someone-or-other (can't spell his name LMAO!).

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    I love Gentle Gentle. It is on the McLeods Daughters soundtrack Season 2 It is aimed towards a girl but I love it anyway

    chorus
    Gentle Gentle
    Sing to your child
    Your companion for such a long, long time
    Beneath your heart
    Her heart beats strong
    Life of your life
    Is safe in your arms

    Oh touch her face
    You gaver her form
    Child of this earth, child of this sky
    You are her voice
    She has your eyes
    This is her gift
    The thread of life

    Oh give her grace
    And give her peace
    Let her be strong, let her be kind
    She is your soul
    And you are her strength
    Bless her and guide her
    All her life

    Chorus

    gave me goosebumps just typing it out.


    Love

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    Oh i also have two CD's full of that stuff that I just remembered might be something there that you may interest you to check out.

    Disney Babies Lullabies

    1 - When you wish upon a star
    2 - Baby Mine
    3 - Hush little baby
    4 - Dreams are the flowers (that bloom in your heart)
    5 - Brahms Lullaby
    6 - Stay Awake
    7 - Mountain Lullaby
    8 - All the Prettly little horses
    9 - Golden Slumbers
    10 - Fast Asleep
    11 - La La Lu
    12 - Rockabye baby
    13 - Sleep, Daddy, Sleep
    14 - Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
    15 - Sleep Little Child
    16 - Sleepytime Skies
    17 - Ho Ho Hum
    18 - Countin' Sheep
    19 - Nighty Night
    20 - A dream is a wish your heart makes

    Disney Rock a bye baby

    1 - Blessed
    2 - Why Worry
    3 - Isn't she lovely
    4 - Baby Baby
    5 - Your the first, the last, my everything
    6 - You are so beautiful
    7 - Farewell and goodnight
    8 - Beautiful boy (darling boy)
    9 - Hushabye
    10 - Dream
    11 - The second star to the right
    12 - Till there was you
    13 - A whole new world
    14 - When you wish upon a star.

    Love

  4. #4
    BellyBelly Life Member

    Nov 2003
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    Wow, thanks for sharing all of that, Kathryn. And those lyrics are just beautiful. Will have to try and track down that song!

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    My song to Paris is Gorecki by lamb:

    If I should die this very moment
    I wouldn’t fear
    For I’ve never known completeness
    Like being here
    Wrapped in the warmth of you
    Loving every breath of you
    Still in my heart this moment
    Or it might burst
    Could we stay right here
    Until the end of time until the earth stops turning
    Wanna love you until the seas run dry
    I’ve found the one I’ve waited for

    All this time I’ve loved you
    And never known your face
    All this time I’ve missed you
    And searched this human race
    Here is true peace
    Here my heart knows calm
    Safe in your soul
    Bathed in your sighs
    Wanna stay right here
    Until the end of time
    ’til the earth stops turning
    Gonna love you until the seas run dry
    I’ve found the one I’ve waited for

    The one I’ve waited for

    All I’ve known
    All I’ve done
    All I’ve felt was leading to this
    All I’ve known
    All I’ve done
    All I’ve felt was leading to this
    Wanna stay right here
    ’til the end of time ’till the earth stops turning
    I’m gonna love you till the seas run dry
    I’ve found the one I’ve waited for
    The one I’ve waited for
    The one I’ve waited for

    Wanna stay right here
    ’til the end of time ’till the earth stops turning
    I’m gonna love you till the seas run dry
    I’ve found the one I’ve waited for
    The one I’ve waited for
    The one I’ve waited for


    *hugs*
    Cailin

  6. #6

    Oooh yeah forgot to add my song to the boys is "With arms wide open" by Creedance.

    Love

  7. #7
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    Feb 2004
    Melbourne
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    Awwww they're both lovely

  8. #8
    Debbie Lee Guest

    I think I have to change the CDs in my car to something more mellow. At the moment, Little Nobba is being soothed by Pearl Jam,
    I do, however, have "Songs For Dreaming" on tape in the car. I put it on when I am feeling frustrated. Very soothing. I want to get the same thing on CD to play in the nursery when the baby is sleeping. Will have to have a look for it.

  9. #9
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    May 2003
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    Groovy Kind of Love, by Phil Collins...........I "whisper sing" this to Olivia when we are cuddled up just before I put her to bed........it is my favourite time of day with her.........

    When I'm feeling blue,
    All I have to do
    Is take a look at you,
    Then I'm not so blue
    When you're close to me,
    I can feel your heart beat
    I can hear you breathing in my ear

    Wouldn't you agree,
    Baby you and me,
    We've got a groovy
    Kind of love.




    Plus I played loads of Sarah McLachlan, Lisa Stansfield, Norah Jones and Dido when I was pregnant and when we were in hospital together and when we were first at home......and now when I play those CD's I want to cry when I look at Olivia.

  10. #10
    BellyBelly Life Member

    Nov 2003
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    Thanks for sharing those songs everyone. It's amazing the emotions that a song can bring up!!

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    Sep 2004
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    Oh Cailin
    Lamb are my favourite and that is my most favourite song - our little bean is going to be a lamb fan whether he/she likes it or not!
    My husband and i went and saw lamb at the enmore - the best live music ive ever seen - did you go

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    Mar 2004
    Melbourne
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    I like Paul Kelly and he has just been doing a series of four concerts in Melbourne. He was working through an A-Z of his songs. DH and I decided to go to all of them because it will be our last chance for a while. It was on Monday and Tuesday nights of the last two weeks. It was very loud and the baby moved so much that it either loved Paul Kelly or hated him. I guess that we won't find out for a while yet.

    There is one song that mentions a woman getting her husband to feel the baby kick in the night. As Paul sang that DH reached over and touched my belly. It was the sweetest thing, I had tears in my eyes.

    I am sure that Paul Kelly will always remind me of being pregnant with this baby.

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    Aug 2004
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    there is an unwritten law son that I really like which i can see myself adapting a bit to sing to bubs, is called cailin, he actually wrote it about his daughter cailin. the first verse is a bit depressing, so i will probably leave that out!

    Well it seemed like yesterday
    When the world was looking dark
    It felt so cold and grey
    And why the hell am I even here
    What's the purpose, all I feel is guilt and hate and fear

    'Til that day you came along
    My heart was empty
    Like the soul was missing from a song
    And I thought I'd loved a few
    No one ever made me feel
    The way that you do

    Hey little girl
    Look what you do
    Oh, I love you
    Hey little girl, I love you

    Well I know I'm not always right
    And girl it breaks my heart
    When I have to see you cry
    So many things I wanna say
    Now I know that you're the reason
    That I'm here today

    Whenever you're here
    Just stay near
    We'll be alright, yeah alright
    Hey little girl
    Look what you do
    Oh, I love you
    Hey little girl
    Look what you do, and you do
    When all my love starts running thin
    I got you my own Cailin
    Hey little girl, I love you

    I'll be alright
    But I need you close
    Please stay tonight
    As long as you're here
    Just stay near
    We'll be alright, yeah alright

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    Heather, no I didn't go *wah* I would love to see them though

    And min, you wouldn't believe the amount of people that ask me if I know that song! And I even had a guy dedicate it to me once awwwwww...
    In fact the other day when I was on the phone to a guy at optus he asked me if I knew that song LOL!

    *hugs*
    Cailin

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    Debbie Lee Guest

    Actually, come to think of it, my Dad used to sing; "You Are So Beautiful" (Joe ****er??) to us as babies. We grew up thinking that the song was written for us (or so Dad said! And we allllll believe what Daddy tells us!!). We were devastated when we found out it wasn't written especially for us. Still, it is one song that I will probably sing/play for Little Nobba.

  16. #16
    Pietta Guest

    I have two- here are the main bits-

    Make the world safe for you by the Whitlams (I actually played both of these songs and sung them while I was in labour!!)


    I know they all want you
    With your Desdemona's eyes
    I'll keep you from danger
    And shield you from prying eyes

    I can make the world safe for you
    Come and live over here
    I can make the world safe for you
    Come and live over here
    I can make the world safe for you
    Nothing bad'll happen now...

    I've got a problem
    I think you know how I feel
    Plans piling up in the corner
    Eyeballing me every hour

    I can make the world safe for you
    Nothing bad at all

    You've got no money
    So I know how you feel
    When you see the glitter
    Turn around it's no big deal

    Thats the main part- and the other one is

    When I see you smile- It is for my DH and Ryley. I cry when i think of it-

    Sometimes I wonder
    How I'd ever make it through,
    Through this world without having you
    I just wouldn't have a clue

    'Cause sometimes it seems
    Like this world's closing in on me,
    And there's no way of breaking free
    And then I see you reach for me

    Sometimes I wanna give up
    I wanna give in,
    I wanna quit the fight
    And then I see you, baby
    And everything's alright,
    everything's alright

    When I see you smile
    I can face the world, oh oh,
    you know I can do anything
    When I see you smile
    I see a ray of light, oh oh,
    I see it shining right through the rain
    When I see you smile
    Oh yeah, baby when I see you smile at me

    Baby there's nothing in this world
    that could ever do
    What a touch of your hand can do
    It's like nothing that I ever knew

    And when the rain is falling
    I don't feel it,
    'cause you're here with me now
    And one look at you baby
    Is all I'll ever need,
    you're all I'll ever need

    Chorus

    Sometimes I wanna give up
    I wanna give in,
    I wanna quit the fight
    And then I see you baby
    And everything's alright,
    everything's alright

    So right...


    *sobbing and singing*

  17. #17
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    Sep 2004
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    Aww girls, you are all so sweet, I have tears from reading the song lyrics. I'm a big one on music too, it brings back so many memories bith good and bad. When I was a baby my dad used to carry me around singing A Little Ray Of Sunshine. So I am told anyway - he passed away when I was 3 months old. So whenever I hear that song I think of him singing to me.
    I'm trying to sort out music too to have playing during labour, birth and afterwards, not sure if I want actual songs or just a relaxation cd. What do you think?

    Can't say that I really have songs for my boy's I do remember that Mabeline was playing on the hospital radio when Brandon was born though.

    Take care
    Trish

  18. #18
    BellyBelly Life Member

    Nov 2003
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    Trish, maybe make sure you have enough CDs so that you have both options available to you? You might change your mind about what music you want to listen to once you are actually in labour.

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