What songs do you sing to your DGC?

'I can sing a rainbow' to my daughter and 2 grandchildren to get them to sleep + 'If you were the only girl in the world' to D and GD

In the car with DGC they told me and DH any word and we would sing a song with that word in it. Surprising how many songs most people know. Any failure became "How much is that .......... in the window, lots of laughter!

We had lots of songs we sang in the car, and my DS sing them with their own children now. Until they were teenagers, we would sing "Bill Grogan's Goat" whilst doing the washing up.

Reading through these I realise many DGC are tiny, mine are all grown now but putting a baby on my head and singing Rod Stewart’s “Sailing” always used to settle them down for bed. I don’t know if I have a voice or not and i RrEALLY don’t care, suggest we ALL make a gladsome noise as singing is. rEALLY good for the morale of the troops - ask any old serg’t major

The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers and Agadoo, both while bouncing on my knee!

The Runaway Train. my grandson loves it, in fact he sang it at his preschool leavers assembly, they were stunned he knew the words. We also sing the crossing the road song which I used to sing with my dad.
When you cross the road by day or night
Beware of the dangers that looooom in sight
Look to the left and look to the right
And you'll never ever get run over!
Granddaughters love music too, especially the old favourites. I bought the down load of Tommy's Tape. the tape Anneka Rice did for challenge Anneka as my children loved it but we no longer have a cassette player in the 'modern' world so down load it is. I take one of my granddaughters to a singing group now she loves it

Cos I am ‘saucy grandad’ they all love:

“Nobody loves me, everybody hates me,
Fink i’ll Go out and eat worms”

I learned in the Scouts.

I do sing with a fun groupnat the library, mostly sixties pop songs, puppet on a string, bare necessities, do Ron Ron Ron, etc. But the grandchildren seem to prefer Granddad’s daft songs

You are my Sunshine, I used to sing it to my children when they were little, and now my daughter sings it to her children.

Golden slumbers, used to sing it to my son when he was a baby, if I hear it being sung now I;always cry, my son not with us anymore.

Cat Stevens moonshadow,
Horsey horsey don't you stop,
You are my sunshine,

inishowen, just go for it! I was told to mime too and it’s never stopped me belting them out!

I was annoyed when a teacher pulled just my son and one other boy out of the Year 6 choir practices. Talk about knocking a child’s confidence!

When GD visits she has taken to singing the Duck song over and over especially when she is sitting drawing, so weird.

Granddaughter sings the song from Frozen. Again and again and again And will watch it any number of times. She sings Twinkle Twinkle too. New songs from nursery now and then.

My 2 year old grandson songs nursery rhymes or songs from his favourite tv programme. My 3 older grandchildren(14,11,11,) lots of things but they don't hear it as they have their ears.

My kids had renditions of Stevie Wonders “you are the sunshine of my life” ..... Grandchildren have a mix.... “ how do you like your eggs in the morning” and my GS in turn sang it to the Nursery school ladies ! When teenage GD’s have any angst they get “ don’t you worry about a thing coz every little things gonna be alright” ... No I can’t sing to save my life, however it keeps them amused that Nanny has a song for every occasion.

She never wants to come out. She never wants to get in either . She's two, but will be three next week nad is arguing for less time now!

I sing Wind the Bobbin and Wheels on the bus, and some Woody Guthrie sings, Ship in the Sky, Good Night Little Arlo, but I change Arlo to the child's name, and I'm gonna wrap myself in paper, I'm gonna daub myself with glue, stick some stamps on top of my head and I'm gonna mail myself to you.

Christopher Robin is saying his prayers, They're Changing guard at Buckingham Palace, Daddy's taking us to the zoo today, 4 little ducks went out one day,

and a cockney music hall one;
A mother was bathing 'er baby, bathing 'er baby one night. The mother was fat and the baby was thin, just like a skelington, covered with skin
She only turned round for a minute, to reach down some soap off the wrack
She only turned round for a minute, but oh when she turned back!
Her baby had utterly vanished! Vanished completely away.
Oh where, oh where is my baby? She heard an angel say.
Your baby has gorn down the plughole. Your baby has gorn down the plug.
The poor little fing was so skinny and thin, it should have bin bafed in a jug.
Your baby is perfectly happy. 'ee won't need no bathing no more.
Your baby has gorn down the plug hole. Not lorst, just gorn before.

We sing that in the bath when she doesn't want to come out and I take the plug out, but she'd never fit down the plug hole

When I was at school the teacher told me to mime as my voice was awful. From that day on I have NEVER sung. The other day in the car my 6 year old granddaughter was asking me to sing and I just couldn't do it. I really hate what that teacher did to me.

I always sang Leo Sayer Love you more than I can say to my grandson at sleep time, for Christmas my daughter had a plate made with his footprints on and the words. My most treasured possession

We sing all sorts, old and new and the grandchildren pick up the words amazingly quickly. When my girls were small my mum would sing with them in the car, Another Opening Another Show from Kiss Me Kate. When my mum passed away and I couldn't decide what music to play at her funeral this was the song they suggested....seemed fitting somehow.

I sing "Shake, Rattle and Roll" because I can jiggle him him on my lap vigorously while singing that and it distracts him from whatever he was fussing about lol

Wind the Bobbin Up
Down at the Station
I had a Little Turtle
Row Row Row Your Boat
Rain Rain go Away

All the traditional ones, which do come flooding back when you're rocking a baby, as Grammarretto says. I found with DGS 1, 2 and 3 that London Bridge was always a sure fire way to get them to sleep. I was once halfway through a beautiful rendition of Summertime when DGS2, who'd been watching my face intently, suddenly burst into tears and was just inconsolable. I think it was the thought of flying to the sky.....

I have to catch myself on sometimes - DGS3 picked up all the words to 15 Men on a Dead Man's Chest after just one hearing, and I had to stop midway through one from my childhood. Dee Dee Dee Dee is no good, (chop him up for firewood, when he's dead boil his head and make it into gingerbread).

DGS4 can't be doing with my singing at all and just goes straight to sleep to avoid it.

My children & grandchildren were exposed to a wide variety of songs. The Sausage Roll song from Gilbert& Sullivan’s ‘ The Grand Duke’, to ‘ The Wild Colonial Boy’ or ,

“ In an underground garrett, up three flights of stairs,
Next door to the man who made apples and pears,
There lived a wee wumman wi’ teeth like a rose,
And she could not stop smiling for corns on her nose.”

This was sung to the tune of ‘ The Ould Orange Flute’, and I suspect my father may have made it up!

I worked in Early Years for a long time, and was saddened by the number of children who could only sing one nursery rhyme ( usually Baa Baa Black Sheep or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star)
I was delighted when one wee new nursery pupil asked if we could sing, ‘ Sit down, you’re rockin’ the boat’, and proceeded to give us a full theatrical rendition!

Yesterday I was singing Gilbert & Sullivan's 'over the bright blue sea" to one year old DGD. She seemed to like it and did a little dance.
(I'm enjoying this thread and must make a note of some of the songs I had forgotten.)