What do you sing/play to put your kids to sleep?

[SpareWheel]

We sing "Amazing Grace" or "Lavender's Blue" and occasionally play Labi Siffre's "It Must be Love". We're a bit short of other gentle tunes to and they're getting bored of nursery rhymes. Any suggestions?

I find bellowing GOBACKTOBEDISAIDGOBACKTOBEDIT'SSLEEPTIME from downstairs does the trick.

(mine are six and nearly four, though.)

Blimey - sing????

I'm at the end of my rope by bedtime so it's just 'night night, no more talking, don't make me have to come back in here, if you don't stop talking now we won't be doing x/y/z tomorrow, right I've had enough now - you in that room, you in that room, you stay here - GOOOOO TO SLEEEEEEEEEP!!!!!'

tHAT'S usually how it goes

Mine 6, 4.5, nearly 3

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If I sing dd1 plasters her hands over my mouth and shouts 'STOOOOOOOOOP!'

LO (10m) has his own MP3 player! It cost all of £5 from Tesco with another £5 for a crappy pair of speakers.

For singing I do christmas carols with a lullaby-ish tune (Away in a Manger, Rocking, Shepherds Cradle Song, some obscure medieval ones that I happen to know) and folk songs - Skye Boat Song, another Scottish one I don't know the proper name of, Dashing away with a Smoothing Iron, The British Grenadiers (although that's a bit vigorous but he loves it). All those years of singing in school choirs finally pay off...

Ds2 has Palestrina, Josquin, Tallis, Cardoso, and any other 16th/17th Century unaccompanied choral music! He loves it - smiles as soon as it goes on and lies and listens until he drifts off. He really likes the Bach motets (Der Geist Hilft etc). Ds1 and dd have story discs. Ds1 and dd are nearly 6 and 3, ds2 is 13 months.

I sing 'Lulla,Lulla Bye Bye' and 'Hush, here comes the sand man'. Then it's classic fm as her cd player has broken! (she's 2.4)

We also sing "Suo Gan" which is a Welsh lullaby - the music to which the film "Empire of the Sun" opens. It's SO beautiful.

Needs to be sung again and again, but a little bit more quietly each time and eventually justed hummed until I/DW backs out of the door.

ds2 loikes happy birthday sung over and over and over. he blows out candles at the end even when almost asleep. hes nearly 3

oh and skye boat song

I don't sing,I am extremely boring at bed-time.It's enough of a circus as it is,any singing and it would turn into the X-factor auditions.