Please help increase my repertoire of sleep-inducing songs and lullabies

[bumbleweed]

Sorry sounds miniscule problem compared to the others cries for help in this topic, but I am deep in the mire of sleep-deprivation believe me.

I basically have to rock/sing dd to sleep still and have been singing 'twinkle twinkle' and 'kumbaya my lord' repeatedly now every night for 8 months, and those tunes and word are driving me mad.

Please suggest some other sweet, gentle lullaby-esque songs for me!

[Bink]

And:
My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean
Speed Bonny Boat Like the Wings of a Bird (which always primly gets a subtitle "The Skye Boat Song")

[Bink]

Oh, also Where have all the flowers gone

[dublindee]

Grover's "Wubba" lullaby from Play with me Sesame

[MrsBadger]

love 'Wheels on Blasted Bus' bink!
I can just hear it now...

The wheels on the blasted bus go sh§§ f§§§ bug§§§
sh§§ f§§§ bug§§§
sh§§ f§§§ bug§§§
The wheels on the blasted bus go sh§§ f§§§ bug§§§
All day long!

I know what you mean about singing music you like - wasn't planning on confessing to singing Parry, Brahms and Handel but have done so on occasion...

oh, and Vaughn Williams' The Turtle Dove goes down a storm.

[Bink]

now that's going to be in my head all day

MrsB, you probably know, who is it that did the famous setting of "Where the bee sucks", and where can I find the music? It's another one they like but I flounder at the end and it always sounds a bit unsatisfactory

[MrsBadger]

have a hunch it's Thomas Arne - rummaging for score and/or mp3

[dublindee]

where the bee sucks there suck i
in a cowslips bell i lie
there i crouch when owls do cry
.....

I remember it too!

[dublindee]

a bit uptempo surely for a lullaby?

[spots]

we have Lavendar's Blue, Dilly, Dilly... Frere Jaques... that one from Oh Brother Where Art Thoou that goes 'when I went down to the river to pray' as well as a few from my mum that I don't know if tunes are known but in case anyone else knows themm they are D'ream Angus', 'Loola Loola Bye BYe', 'I Left my Baby Lying There'... also 'Little Baby Sweetly Sleep' which I think can be Xmas carol, and 'I saw 3 ships' ditto.

Can I just counter your point Twiglett, by saying that I actually find bedtime lullabyes a really simple pleasure! I don't care if DDs still want lullabyes at 14... there's just something so timeless and lovely about singing your children to sleep.

[MrsBadger]

if it is the Arne you're looking for, mp3 here , downloadable score here
I love the web!

[Bink]

MrsB, you're a star - though I have to confess I will have to get help with mp3-ing and downloading - will come back to let you know how I get on.

Much bigger confession: I have for some 35 years been convinced that song was in Midsummer Night's Dream (ie was Puck's not Ariel's). I guess both of them have cowslips in (she clutches at weeds).

This evening's soppy song: Favourite Things from Sound of Music.

[thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat]

do you know the joe Jingles "say goodbye" song? I sometimes sing that as "say goodnight" and go through all the family and dds' friends etc. unfortunately it can be counter productive (with a 6 and 4 year old) because it invariably degenerates into "you missed out Aunty Helen" "no I didn't" "yes you did. start again" "no" "waahhh you DID miss her out". But you'd probably be safe with an 8 month old. (for the moment...)

[Bink]

Oh, there's more (and I realise why, it's not because my mum sang to me it's because my dad did) -

Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies [this one is for boys, somehow]
When little hen, when when when (will you lay me an egg for my tea)
The sun has got his hat on (hip hip hip hooray)

(and in answer to query on possibly inappropriate upbeatness, I've found anything can be a lullaby if you sing it very softly and gently - except, possibly, What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor, which was one of my dad's star turns)

[niceglasses]

Think someone else mentioned it but my lot love
Morningtown as well (and not just at bedtime)

Train whistle blowing.....


I only know 1st verse tho so have to keep repeating.

[squigglepuss]

No one has included our 3 favourites:

• The Owl and the Pussycat
  
• A froggy would a wooing go
  
• Go tell aunt Rhode (I think traditional American)
  
  My father sang the last 2 to me as a child and they still make me drowsy!