Since it's night time, a survey

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About lullabies. Or whatever the plural form of lullaby happens to be.

-what lullabies did your parents sing to you?
-what lullabies do you/did you sing to your children?

[Deleted]

The only thing I remember my mom singing is "You are my Sunshine." I sing that to Lilly a lot, but I also sing tons of other things. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" was always my favorite to sing to her when she was tiny.

[polka]

-what lullabies did your parents sing to you?  I remember You Are My Sunshine and Rock-a-bye Baby.
-what lullabies do you/did you sing to your children? I sing Baby Mine, You Are My Sunshine and Rock-a-bye Baby to them the most. They always ask for those ones.

[noodle]

My mom made one up about how it was time to sleep, and all of our friends were asleep.  She listed family and friends and how each one was asleep, and then it was time for me to go to sleep.

I sing You Are My Sunshine to my kitty all the time.  That is his lullaby.

[Deleted]

You are my sunshine is a really fucked up song essentially demonstrating the cycle of abuse in three short verses.

And also the state song of Louisiana.

Ywia.

[ProfessorArtNerd]

Neither my mom nor I can sing lol.

Ummm does You Can't Always Get What You Want count?

[sugarbear]

I don't remember my dad singing me any songs. I'll have to ask him. Our nap time / bed time songs are Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Stand By Me, Lean on me, and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

[buddysmom]

Tingalayo (sp) was a big one. Also the one that goes "put another Nickle in, in the nickleodean, all I want is loving you and music music music." No idea what its called

[winnied]

No kids.

My mom would sing songs from The Sound of Music as well as the Winnie the Pooh song.

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-they made up their own, I think? I can remember one, but I've never heard it anywhere else.

- I don't. They yell at me to stop. Lol. I used to sing "homeward bound" by Marta Keen to ds as a baby, before he could yell "dop it mommy!"

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My mom sang Swing Low Sweet Chariot and In Them Old Cotton Fields Back Home.

Now that I think about it, I have no clue why she would have chosen these songs.

[Deleted]

Okay, real answer. My mom doesn't sing. My dad sang everything, often in foreign languages (opera) but nothing with any special regularity except "I see the moon and the moon sees me", which I sing to both kids every night.

I also made up a song for L when she was a week old that I always sing to her and modified to sing to O too.

Other than that I just sing all kinds of songs all the time.

[BieberMyBalls]

Dec 10, 2013 23:04:45 GMT -5 cville said:

You are my sunshine is a really fucked up song essentially demonstrating the cycle of abuse in three short verses.

And also the state song of Louisiana.

Ywia.

I was curious and googled the lyrics for the entire song. Uuh, holy shit.

I sang rock-a-bye baby, You Are My Sunshine, and Hush Little Baby mostly. As DS1 got older, he and I made up our own little bedtime song to the tune of Neil Diamond's "Hello Again" lol no idea why.

Eta: I think my mom sang You Are My Sunshine. She wasn't much into singing.

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

I don't recall being sung to.
H sings the girls 'good night, sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs *ba da ta CHA* bite', with a lot of silliness during the scatting.
I sing them a song from Veggie Tales.
Think of me every day
Hold tight to what I say
And I'll be close to you
Even from far away
Know that where ever you are
It is never too far
If you think of me
I'll be with you.
I pause randomly and they fill in the words, they sing the last line with me.
If they are sick, I curl up with them and and sing a strange mix of show tunes, Amy Winehouse, and Pink Floyd.

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

Dec 10, 2013 23:07:26 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Dec 10, 2013 23:04:45 GMT -5 cville said:

You are my sunshine is a really fucked up song essentially demonstrating the cycle of abuse in three short verses.

And also the state song of Louisiana.

Ywia.

I was going to make "Rock-A-Bye, Baby," E's song, but I decided it was too morbid. lol

I have changed the lyrics, I don't think Kristen even knows the real ones.
When the bough breaks,
The cradle won't fall
Cuz I'll catch you, baby
Cradle and all.

[macmars45]

My parents never sang me lullabies. They read me books until 1st or so grade and then my oldest sister (almost 8 yrs older) took over reading me books. I have so many awesome memories of my oldest sister reading Gordan Korman books (among others).

I have no kids to sing lullabies to yet.

[ProfessorArtNerd]

Dec 10, 2013 23:13:53 GMT -5 turdferguson said:

My dad sang me to sleep each night with the Irish lullaby of "to rah loo rah loo rah". I love it now because it's whimsical.

Now I have Come On Eileen in my head. Which I sing to my mom bc that's her name. Full circle

[W.T.Faulkner]

Ain't no lullabies in this family.

I might sing to my own imaginary babies when they stop being imaginary though.

[nursewife]

I sang hush little baby a lot to the twins when they were newborns. Now we sing ittsy bitsy spider and twinkle twinkle little star. DD sings it as wiggle wiggle though

[janiejones]

I can't remember what my parents sung.

We have a few:

Sea shell, sea shell
Sing a song for me
Tell me about the Ocean,
Tell me about the Sea.




Bye low my baby,
Bye low my baby-bye,
Bye low my baby,
Rock a baby-bye




Go to sleepy baby bye,
Go to sleepy baby bye,
Daddy's gone to the mail boat,
Daddy's gone to the mail boat-bye

Bye-low baby bye,
Bye-low baby bye,
Mommy's gone to the mail boat,
Mommy's gone to the mail boat-bye

[isabel]

My mom sang "You Are My Sunshine" and "A Bicycle Built for Two." I'm sure she sang other stuff, but those two stand out.

@amoosed, I love "Swing Low Sweet Chariot." That's a great lullaby song.

eta: I'm guessing DH and I will sing "A Bushel and A Peck" to our kids because we sing it to/with each other fairly often.

[tdk2]

Dec 10, 2013 23:06:13 GMT -5 ProfessorArtNerd said:

Neither my mom nor I can sing lol.

Ummm does You Can't Always Get What You Want count?

Hah. We have always sung that to c a lot and prob will to j. Because kids often want stuff they can't get.


My dad would sing to us late at night after he got home from work. A lot of Peter Paul and Mary and pretty much all classic rock. "Lemon tree" was my fave as a kid. My sister loved "scarlet ribbons."

I sang a lot of that to c as a baby but lately she's not into singing at night. Well except with Dh when they read and sing frosty the snowman. Which started in June and has been sung many times a week. You can imagine how excited she is about snow now that it's arriving!

[tdk2]

Oh and Simon and garfunkel songs.

Prince's song 7 used to always stop her crying and get her to sleep.

[janiejones]

Dec 10, 2013 23:12:45 GMT -5 @kirkette said:

My Mom- Some songs about Jesus or various tunes by Raffi
For Kirklette, I sing - I Don't Want to Live on the Moon. I'm basically a one trick pony. LOL
Mr.Kirkette sings - Layla, Rainbow Connection, Under the Sea, Be our Guest, Kiss the Girl, Sing Sweet Nightingale, or other songs he makes up.

I have never heard that.  It's cute. (It probably helps that I picked the JGL version on youtube)

[Jermys]

-what lullabies did your parents sing to you?
I don't think any lullabies.

-what lullabies do you/did you sing to your children?
You Are My Sunshine
Sweet Baby James
Love Me Tender
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Forever Young
Go To Sleep You Little Baby
Me and Bobby McGee

[gustafngrete]

-what lullabies did your parents sing to you?
Don't think they sung to me all that much.  My Dad was a good storyteller, though
-what lullabies do you/did you sing to your children?
Each night I'll sing 4 or 5 songs from repertoire of a dozen and a half, including: "Feeling Groovy" "Home on the Range" "Let Me Call you Sweetheart" and "Over the Rainbow". I always end with the same two songs (so they know that I'm wrapping up): "Baby Mine" (sung to the tune "Oh my Darling Clementine") and "Frere Jacques".  

I was very persistent about singing when they were little, so now I've created a monster.  At age 8 and 6 they still expect it... And DS2 will cry if I don't sing to him.  

[looseseal]

My mom sang us 'Down in a Meadow,' and I sing it to my kids, too. I sing lots of different lullabies. I had to look up lyrics to lots of them, because I would only know one verse. I like to do the long version of Mary Had a Little Lamb. I wish I knew more non-lullaby songs, but H says I have a horrible voice anyway so we shouldn't subject them to it, lol.

[janiejones]

Dec 11, 2013 0:03:42 GMT -5 @kirkette said:

Dec 11, 2013 0:00:23 GMT -5 janiejones said:

I have never heard that.  It's cute. (It probably helps that I picked the JGL version on youtube)

Old school Sesame Street. Got to love Ernie. 

AHA! That's much more familiar now.

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

Dec 10, 2013 23:34:18 GMT -5 ProfessorArtNerd said:

Dec 10, 2013 23:13:53 GMT -5 turdferguson said:

My dad sang me to sleep each night with the Irish lullaby of "to rah loo rah loo rah". I love it now because it's whimsical.

Now I have Come On Eileen in my head. Which I sing to my mom bc that's her name. Full circle

I HAD had Irish Lullaby (SUCH a pretty song) stuck in my head after reading that.  But after reading this, now I have Benny and the Jets.

damn it brain

[pinkeggs]

My mom sang some penny song that I can't remember.

I sing lots of You Are My Sunshine and Close to You by the Carpenters lol
Oh, and In My Life by the Beatles