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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! :o
For some reason I have always used Teddy Bear Picnic for DS - no idea why, but it seems to work :).
The Nanny theme song! No joke, since he was a tiny baby it's ALWAYS calmed him down!
I sing 'I see the moon' every night for ds, have since the day he was born.
Hehe how cute...:
Twinkle Twinkle for DS1 and I like to sing "if i could save time in a bottle" for DS2.
Used to be Swing Low, more recently Brown Girl in the Ring became a favourite.
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...
"Lullaby" by Billy Joel used to work for DD... I used to get a bit teary singing it to her too :lol: 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!
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....
With ds 1 it was "old macdonald", and "come away with me"
Ds 2 likes true colours, rainbow connection and a song called indoor fireworks by Elvis costello
When DD was a little baby, it was the ants come marching, then it was twinkle, twinkle - all 3 verses, and that still helps calm her down. DS so far prefers for me to la,la rather than actually sing and that tends to be any tune I can think of!
For DS1 it has always been "hush little baby", he was really sick for 12months & I would sing it all the time....he's now 3 and I've caught him singing it to DS2 (so cute).
DS2 yet to find one he likes.
My mother used to sing 'wind through the olive trees' but I'm not sure that's the name of the song.
For DD#1, I'd sing 'home of the whale', which I have a Massive Attack version of here.
DD#2 .... you try and sing anything you get "STOP SINGING MUMMY" :rolleyes:
When ds2 was really little i used to sing "I'm Henry the 8th I am" and he liked that.
Whatever either of us is listening to at the time really. At the moment a lot of Dan Sultan or Nick Cave. Blowin in the Wind by Bob Dylan is always a favourite too. As you can see we're a little non traditionalist ;)
The five little ducks song- but i usually start with 10 little ducks and count down- if he is unsettled i just keep going and going and if he settles quickly i skip a few numbers. i have also made my own words up and changed "ducks" to "trucks" so its 5 little trucks went out one day- over the bridge and far away - mummy truck said honk honk beep beep - but only 4 little trucks went to sleep" and so on.... :)
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'
Pink really settles Kailey.
Im currently listening to it and singing along and shes zonked out :)
Our favourites are 'Close to you' by the Carpenters, 'Mockingbird' and the 'Stay Awake' song from Mary Poppins
Is anyone else's chid really, really picky?
Before DS could speak well enough to request specific songs, we'd have to run through song after song after song, singing the first line or two before he'd say NO! until finally we found the one he wanted to listed to.
Now he just names the song he wants, which is much easier.
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 :redface:.... but we do like looking forward to a new day. :lol:
"glumph" went the little green frog ... Why? I have no freaking idea!
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
I remember doing that song backwards (counting up) one night with DS1 and getting to 80 ducks!:
I sing Elanor Rigby and Ob la di. Ob la da - 'cause I know all the words.
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.
Aww I am picturing you all singing to your babies soo beautiful!
We sing twinkle twinkle most nights but I do love to sing Moringtown ride by the seekers or you've got a friend by James taylor :)
If only they let me sing more :)
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Me too :loveshower: Awwww.....
Ha.. last night I sang 'Luna' by the smashing pumpkins... very random but its such a cool song :)
Oh I forgot...Agadoo is a big hit at bedtime...my kids are crazy :P
3 verses? What are they please? :D:
The favourites here are Twinkle, Twinkle & Hush little Baby, sometimes if something else has grabbed me that day I will sing it.
I have my own words too which I sing to either Twinkle twinkle or Hush little Baby.
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!
Twinkle,twinkle little star:
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
When the blazing sun is gone
When he nothing shines upon
Then you show your little light
Twinkle twinkle all the night
Then the traveller in the dark
Thanks you for your tiny spark
He could not see which way to go
If you did not twinkle so
In the dark blue sky you keep
And often through my curtains peep
For you never shut your eye
Till the sun is in the sky
'Tis your bright and tiny spark
Lights the traveller in the dark
Though I know not what you are
Twinkle twinkle little star
"The Star" by Jane and Ann Taylor 1806
We have the book of Twinkle twinkle little star and this is at the back.
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.
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!!! :)
Ohh my girls LOVE PINK... but the problem is DD1 likes dancing to her so doesn't get her to sleep, that said i did used to sing glitter in the air, this part in particular:
Have you ever wished for an endless night?
Lassoed the moon and the stars and pulled that rope tight
Have you ever held your breath and asked yourself
Will it ever get better than tonight? Tonight
I LOVE that song :) when i went to her concert i was SHATTERED it hadn't been on, was her last 1 and was FANTASTIC i was PG with DD2 i think, maybe thats why they both like it!