What songs do you sing to your baby (not the "usual ones)

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We sing 'unusual' songs to DD. As well as the usual 'row your boat' and 'hush little baby' etc ...

I like to sing songs like 'Land of The Silver Birch' or 'The Dead Horse' sea shanty to calm her down... and action songs like The Princess Pat for play times.

What other songs do you sing? (Looking for suggestions of new songs to learn really! 😁)

Paradise By The Dashboard Light by Meat Loaf 😂
She was only tiny so luckily didn't understand the words- but she did fall asleep!

Morningtown Ride by the seekers. Every bedtime. Sometimes countless times. They both know it pretty well!

My daughter used to fall asleep to me singing ‘Crusader’ by Saxon, or ‘Turn the Page’ Metallica version. Now she’s older, she just tells me to shush!

I sing a right mix to DD when she was little. Her current favourite is Uptown Girl or Footloose.

For bedtime I just massacre Eidelweiss and I think she pretends to fall asleep through pity!

My dd is 19, but when she was a baby I'd sing her friends theme tune, George Michael songs & other 80's favourites, her dad would sing her rock songs by his favourite bands (he had to "sanitise" some of the lyrics )

My parents would sing her Beatles songs, her other grandparents would sing jazz and swing classics.

My grandparents would sing her soul & jazz classics with the occasional sea shanty thrown in by my granda

We all (my family) sang her various Scots folk songs too - sky boat song, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond, flower of Scotland, auld Lang syne...deacon blues dignity

Result is she loves "old" music (I dispute 80's is "old")

I used to sing 'daisy, daisy' and 'once upon a dream' from sleeping beauty to dd.

Never gonna give you up by Rick Astley. He still knows all the words.

@YolandiFuckinVisser I love Anne Briggs singing 'She Moved Through the Fair'

I used to sing all sorts of folk songs. Ar Hyd y Nos (All Through The Night), Lavender's Blue, Scarborough Fair, The Trees They Do Grow High, Malaika (Miriam Makeba). Plus, songs I made up and 'Baby Mine' from Dumbo.

Pretty much anything that's in my head at the time but I do keep coming back to old Scottish songs e.g. Road and Miles to Dundee/Wild Mountain Thyme/Bonnie Wee Jeannie McColl. I grew up with them and I guess I want her to know them too.

I sing Morningtown Ride too - great bedtime song.

Also a selection of songs from musicals, and songs my grandmother used to play on the piano which have stayed in my head.

I got you babe - sonny and cher

Boasty

Pour some sugar on me

To the tune of We like to Boogie.

Dum, dum, dum
Who likes the boobie?
Who likes the boobie?
You suck on the boobie, get milk from the boobie.
You like the boobie on a Saturday night.

I went to the barber's shop
To get all my hair chopped off
But when I got there
And I sat in the chair
The chair went.... Pop!

Chanted whilst baby was bouncing on my knees - a bounce for each syllable - and then a sudden drop at the end on the word "pop". They used to love it!

I have a 7 week old and she has the Ru Pauls Drag Race theme tune sung to her quite a lot, with some catwalk struts included, and the guess the egg ditty from Sunday brunch 🤷‍♀️

Away in a Manger.

I always used to sing You Are My Sunshine ☀️

99 bottles of beer on the wall.. I can remember all the words .. oh and Madonna songs from the 80s!!

DH (labour party member) used to sing We'll Keep the Red Flag Flying Here to DS.😳

I Will by Alison Krauss
And Goodnight my Angel by Lucy Kaplansky.
Now he has Alexa play them whilst I escape downstairs.

There was a movie in the 80s called All Of Me with Lilly Tomlin and Steve Martin and in the end they dance to a song called All Of Me. I used to sing that to my son all the time. I still love it.

Loola bye bye.
Is this the way to Amarillo
Open the eyes of our hearts, Lord
Basket case by Green Day.

Bit of a mixed bag really.

Whatever is in my head at the time... dd has always been a fan of don Maclean, I learned all the lyrics to American pie when she was a baby.

I once absent mindedly sang oh my darling clementine today ds and now that's his calm down song.

A lot of old stuff too, Joanie Mitchel/Elton John/the who/queen but they both love Taylor swift.

Morningtown ride here too! I have definitely fallen asleep mid verse a few times and had to be prodded awake by whichever child I was singing to.

Occasionally when baby is in a real state in the middle of the night and I can't calm I sing 'kum by ah' (not sure of spelling) until she sleeps. As a prayer for me and discribing how she's feeling/ doing eg crying, sleepy, feeding.

When DD was little I used to sing (badly) to her the Morecambe and Wise song, Bring Me Sunshine and Barry Mannilow's Can't Smile Without You. Happy days 😊