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what made up songs do you sing to your kids??

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Coddy · 26/03/2004 10:43

when my nephew was tiny, BIL used to sing -

to the tune of "Dont cry for me argentinA"

"DOnt cry for me Thomas Surname,
the truth is theres nothing wrong with you
so stop your wailing and your complaining
theres nothing to it , so why do it?"

ANy that you lot made up?

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motherinferior · 29/05/2004 16:36

We have a simple ditty to an ascending major arpeggio and descending major scale, with the unforgettable lyrics 'nakedness and nudity, nudity and nakedness'.

Generally a bathtime song

Coddylicious · 29/05/2004 16:38

lol Mi you are so much more high brow than my barry manilow!

Coddylicious · 29/05/2004 16:38

I sense an article here!

Galaxy · 29/05/2004 16:42

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Coddylicious · 29/05/2004 16:45

we still sing balasnorey

and soemone from MN has a good line efor the archie line -cnat remmeber what but it made me laugh

acnebride · 29/05/2004 16:54

ROFL at Knob the Builder Serenapostrophe, and at Tipperary Badhair

Only lots of variations on 'Woke up this morning - my nappy was full of poo - said I woke up this morning - my nappy was full of poo - we're all out of babywipes - what is my mummy going to do' plus 'yes sir, that's my bunny, no sir, not being funny'.

This is definitely a potential mumsnet book, preferably with the tunes printed too...

Welshmum · 29/05/2004 16:59

When she was smaller we had 'Nap time for baby and mummy, time for the little babies to go to sleep'
Sung to the tune of 'Springtme for Hitler and Germany, winter for Poland and France'
Lord knows where that one came from.....

muddaofsuburbia · 29/05/2004 17:01

Papillon and Forestfly - the second verse just for you

But you can shove yer other granny aff a bus
ye can shove yer other granny aff a bus
ye can shove yer other granny
cos she''s yer daddy's mammy
Ye can shove yer other granny aff a bus!

KateandtheGirls · 29/05/2004 17:09

My husband used to sing to our daughter:

Caroline, aren't you sweet?
Caroline, aren't you neat?
Caroline, aren't you great?
Caroline, isn't it late?
Caroline, you are swell.
Caroline, I can tell.
Caroline, we love you.
Caroline, yes we do!

moominmama86 · 29/05/2004 17:20

Nappy-changing song, to the tune of 'Spiderman'

Poopyman, poopyman
Benny-boy is a poopyman
Poopyman, poopyman
Benny-boy is a poopyman
Poopyman!
You are a poopyman...

Ds thinks it is hilarious - I can't believe I now sing about poo everyday

Easy · 29/05/2004 17:28

I found myself singing one to ds the other day that my father used to sing to me (we're talking 39 years ago here).

it goes
"Bluebells are bluebells
cos bluebells are blue
Bluebells are bluebells
cos bluebells are blue"

A special tune of it's own, I can't really describe. You can sing it on and on and on and on and ...... ad infinitum.

I usually find that the word Blue becomes more Blooooooo the longer you sing it. Silly isn't it?

motherinferior · 29/05/2004 17:43

I'm afraid songs in the Inferiority Complex really are very basic. We also have one that goes 'going up the stairs, like a couple of bears, up the stairs we go/Going up the stairs, like a couple of bears, singing ho ho ho ho ho'.

Helsbels · 29/05/2004 17:56

oz bozzy nig nog,olly golly goo, oz bozzy nig nog - knack noo! - my dad used to sing it to me the second verse goes whatever else you say or do - you must not ever say knack noo! Then you say it and dad tickles you mercilessly - excellent fun - we also had some stories about purple people eaters?

Welshmum · 29/05/2004 17:59

And this one.

Bibbidy, bobbidy boo
A mouse ran in my shoe
It wriggled around
Until it was found
Bibbidy bobbidy boo

(to hickory dickory dock)

susanmt · 29/05/2004 18:09

To the tune of 'Daisy Daisy' (lyrics by dh)

Baby, baby, baby all covered in poo
You're very smelly, but we still love you
We have to change your nappy a million times a day
But you're still sweet, yes you are, and we love you

frogs · 29/05/2004 20:01

A nappy changing song (with apologies to the mice on the mouse organ from Bagpuss):

We will rub it
We will scrub it,
We will polish it
Clean, clean, clean.

A song for miserable times:

Come to me, my melancholy baby
Just cuddle up, and don't be blue...

(Fats Waller)

gothicmama · 29/05/2004 20:03

Helsbels we had stories about them too

Tessiebear · 29/05/2004 20:21

This is really awful: to the tune of Happy Birthday:

If you cant sleep, just lay there
If you cant sleep , just lay there
If you cant sleep, just lay there
If you cant sleep - lay there!!!!!!

californiagirl · 29/05/2004 21:11

To the tune of "Shortnin' Bread", there is

Mommy's little baby loves sleeping, sleeping
Mommy's little baby loves sleeping deep.

There is also something with a tune I think I made up and that I don't guarantee is the same every time for getting my breakfast while holding the baby:

Toast and tea, toast and tea
Toast and tea for me, for me!
Toast for mommy and tea for mommy
but nothing for baby

She likes everything sung, so the other day I was shutting her up by singing something with words that started "Everything sounds better when you sing it" and DH asked what musical it was from.
I had to tell him I'd made it up on the spot, but
I thought the tune was something classical.

Lately I've started singing the Ode to Joy on the grounds that if it worked on a tiger it ought to work on the baby. DH has no idea what I mean by the tiger, and appears afraid to ask.

skerriesmum · 29/05/2004 22:08

I love singing Bushel and a Peck from Guys and Dolls but with these words:

Sweet small boy
I love that cutie boy
Sweetie small boy how I love his cutie face
Love his cutie face
He's the best boy in the place
He's my boy
The best boy
He's my boy
He's a baby!
He's my little baby!

How lame is that?!

Ixel · 29/05/2004 22:23

To frere jaques tune...
mummy's baby, mummy's baby,
we love you, we love you.
Tummy full of milk, tummy full of milk,
done a poo, done a poo.

This isd a nappy change song.

hatter · 29/05/2004 23:57

The bath-time song - to the tune of something I can't quite remember but I think it's called Two little fishes - the last line of each verse in the original is (I think) they swam and they swam all over the dam. The food verse tends to get repeated and the girls think of increasingly silly things. If we're feeling rude we do bum and tum as well.

Two little girls need to get in the bath
One'll have a giggle and the other a laugh
Two little girls need to get really clean
Coz they're the muckiest scruffiest girls you have seen

a-boogie-a-boogie-a-boogie wah-ooo
a-boogie-a-boogie-a-boogie wah-oo

One's got ice-cream all over her nose
And the other's got yoghurt inbetween her toes
One's got jelly all in her hair
And the other's got chocolate everywhere

repeat chorus

Time to get out now, they're all nice and clean
They're the sparkliest shiniest girls you have seen
Time to get out and time for bed
Time to rest those sleepy heads

Bron · 30/05/2004 00:06

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pesme · 31/05/2004 00:19

But you can push your grandma of a bus.
cos shes your daddies mammy....hehehe

CODalmighty · 31/05/2004 00:20

skerriemum
think you and i have the same lyric writer