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Bedtime songs you sing

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MiddleClassProblem · 26/02/2019 22:50

We like to songs to DD at bedtime. Some of the classics like Twinkle Twinkle but also a variety of pop (etc) songs.

DD is always asking us for new ones and we’re running low on what to sing. What do you sing to your kids? We need inspiration!

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MrsNai · 26/02/2019 23:03

Tee and Mo's 'Go to Sleep', Sam Cooke's 'You Send Me' and all five verses of 'Twinkle, Twinkle'.

I had no idea that there was more than one verse to 'Twinkle, Twinkle' until I became a Mum.

LookImAHooman · 26/02/2019 23:11

MrsNai ditto! And that Tee and Mo one is lovely, if an earworm.

SockQueen · 26/02/2019 23:12

The Skye boat song or I See the Moon most nights. Sometimes the Tee and Mo song or the CBeebies bedtime song (though that now makes me cry after a thread I read about it last week).

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TheBubGrower · 26/02/2019 23:28

Wonderful World was always one of my favourites with DS and you are my sunshine. We love tee and mo too, was not expecting that to be so popular!

BunchOfBalloons · 26/02/2019 23:31

I sing eternal flame to my 6 year old DS. It always settles him and after the whole song (it does get a little repetitive) his little hand is still clutching mine from the first line while he doses off. It will break my heart when he gets too old for it Sad

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MiddleClassProblem · 27/02/2019 00:31

None of these are on my list! Brilliant! And no idea that there are more versus to Twinkle Twinkle!

Sorry, sounds a bit shouty for a post so late Grin

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TheSheepofWallSt · 27/02/2019 00:40

Lots of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, fairport convention and Joni Mitchell over here. Occasional Beatles numbers - often George Harrison’s - and I do do some bluesy numbers - things like Summertime or quiet versions of bigger songs.

Also current faves and requested most nights by DS (he’s 2) are

The Kooks song Seaside (“seashide”)

Vashti Bunyans Train Song (“sing like
Steam train”)

Moana - either the opening number, the crab song or the song Moana sings to Tehfiti at the end. Occasionally he’ll ask for “like on the boat”- meaning he’d like me to sing the Polynesian languages bits. I give it a good go but...

We do also do nursery rhymes etc. I just get a bit bored Blush

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MiddleClassProblem · 27/02/2019 07:08

We do quite a bit of the Beatles. It’s hard though as we mostly want slow tempo songs which a lot are sad love songs that we can think of now 😬

I couldn’t use So Shiny as a sleepy song as she’d want to act it all out. Possibly the Moana Make Way song (don’t know it’s name).

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Bellaposey · 27/02/2019 07:10

Feed the birds from Mary Poppins always worked for my DD.

LookImAHooman · 27/02/2019 20:56

I like the Go to Sleep track from Mary Poppins. DC1 didn’t agree and we always thought we were asking for trouble by tempting fate with those lyrics but will have to try it on DC2.

Ratbagratty · 27/02/2019 21:01

My dd asked for hokey cookery as her bedtime song tonight....

Ratbagratty · 27/02/2019 21:01

That should be hokey cokey

Angelinthenightx · 27/02/2019 21:36

Mines are the neighbours,home and away ,the golden girls theme tunes my kids still like me singing them.

LovelyBranches · 27/02/2019 21:40

Heno heno hen plant Bach
and this is probably quite embarrassing but we also sing Soft Kitty from The Big Bang Theory.

FrangipaniBlue · 27/02/2019 21:45

Hush little baby and over the rainbow because those were what my mum sang to me!

She also used to sing old crooked cross (I think that was what it's called?)

DelurkingAJ · 27/02/2019 21:51

Morningtown Ride
Hushabye Mountain
Scarborough Fair
I Gave my Love a Cherry
Thomas the Tank Engine theme tune Hmm
Rockabye Baby
Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat Where Have You Been
Baa-baa Black Sheep
Theme from Shrek

EggbertHeartsTina · 27/02/2019 21:51

Old war songs such as Pack Up Your Troubles, We’ll Meet Again

You Are My Sunshine

Go To Sleep My Baby

Blackbird (the Beatles)

He also asks for the alphabet often Grin

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MiddleClassProblem · 27/02/2019 22:07

Angelinthenightx 😂 that’s awesome.

Thank you all!

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MiddleClassProblem · 27/02/2019 22:08

Although might avoid the Hokey Cokey. We just did Is This Love? but will jot down a list from here too x

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Backhometothenorth · 27/02/2019 22:13

Somewhere over the rainbow
Ride a cock horse...
Dream a little dream
She'll be coming round the mountain...
Old MacDonald
and all sorts of others

MissDai5y · 27/02/2019 22:32

Once upon a dream is our default song

I hope dd doesn't get too bored of it as I struggle to remember complete songs that i didn't learn as a teen or the non rated version.

Clawdy · 27/02/2019 22:44

Coulter's Candy - it never fails!
All The Pretty Little Horses
Morning town Ride.

BitOfFun · 27/02/2019 22:47

I always used to sing Que Sera, Sera to my girls. Or Close To You by The Carpenters.

mogtheexcellent · 27/02/2019 22:51

You are my sunshine
The nightime cbeebies song 'the time has come to say goodnight..'
Tee and mo
Baby of mine from dumbo
Lullaby by Billy Joel
Babys done a poo by nick cope

And at Christmas silent night.

Although at the moment all singing is accompanied by my DD shouting 'no singing mummeee' and trying to cover my mouth with her handsGrin

Cherylshaw · 27/02/2019 22:52

I sing the Skye boat song, twinkle twinkle (all 5 verses) baloo baleerie, I also put on sparrow sleeps and gently sing along