Favourite ‘lullabies’

That sounds like fun phoenix! Now I'm going to have to go through the alphabet for all the verses. Hmm... elephants and foxes, giraffes and hippos, iguanas and..... and..... erm, Joeys? Will have to give this some more thought

(Perhaps this should be on the Games Forum? )

For DS2, I used to sing a song of my own making, "The Animal Bedtime Song"
It was alphabetical, which could present the odd challenge!

The aardvarks and the bears have all gone to sleep, gone to sleep,gone to sleep, the aardvarks and the bears have all gone to sleep, so must you, so must you so must you!

The camels and the dingos have all gone to sleep etc etc

This thread has made me very nostalgic for the days when a little babe was snuggled on my shoulder and I crooned one of the above songs gently.

And they were too young to tell me I couldn't sing!

Summertime - another of my favourites. And I've just realised the words are from a mother to a baby.
Thanks Polly.

Sorry about lack of capitals -difficult on this phone. I do know about them!!!!

Golden slumbers, rock a bye baby, huah little baby, bye baby bunting, little jesus sweetly sleep (substituting name) , away in a manger and also Summer time from porgy & bess!

Oh there are loads
Yes, they're all coming back to me now (did someone sing that too?)

Puff the Magic Dragon, Hush Little Baby, Scarlet Ribbons etc etc

'Daisy, Daisy', Brahms lullaby and a song from Captains Courageous; 'Yeh ho little fish'

Coulters Candy this we sang to DC but not quite the same words . DGC got Wee Willie Winkie

Ally, bally, ally bally bee,
Sittin' on yer mammy's knee
Greetin' for anither bawbee,
Tae buy mair Coulter's candy.

Ally. bally, ally, bally bee,
When you grow up you'll go to sea,
Makin' pennies for your daddy and me,
Tae buy mair Coulter's Candy.

Mammy gie me ma thrifty doon
Here's auld Coulter comin' roon
Wi' a basket on his croon
Selling Coulter's Candy.

Little Annie's greetin' tae
Sae whit can puir wee Mammy dae
But gie them a penny atween them twae
Tae buy mair Coulter's Candy.

Poor wee Jeannie's lookin' affa thin,
A rickle o' banes covered ower wi' skin,
Noo she's gettin' a double chin
Wi' sookin' Coulter's Candy.

Toora loora loora
Toora loora li
Toora loora loora, hush now don't you cry
Toora loora loora,
Toora loora li,
Toora loora loora, that's an Irish lullaby
Also Cotton Candy Land (Elvis Presley)
Sandman's coming, yes he's coming
He'll sprinkle yu with sand
He'll say 1, 2 3 and you will be
in Cotton Candy land

Oh there are loads- Hush little baby, Golden Slumbers (which my mum sang to me) Scarborough fair, Puff the magic Dragon and a song that starts "Hush here comes the dream man" which my 5 year old GD and 3 year old GS can now sing by themselves

I used to sing Go to Sleep my Little Pickaninny and Rock-a-bye Baby, and I sang both these to my grandchildren too, though I changed the 'p' word to 'pequenino' (Spanish or Portuguese for 'little one'), which is believed to be the origin of the word. (Also, I couldn't bring myself to sing the second line, "mummy (nana) will not love you if you don't", so I changed it to "nana always loves you when you do" )
My GD suffered from colic for the first 3 months and my DD and I spent countless nights taking turns to rock her gently and sing Lula Lula Bye Bye. DD says she hates the song now because it just reminds her of the sheer exhaustion and desperation of those first few weeks!

I can't remember singing lullabies to mine. But we used to sing lots of rhymes and other children's songs. From CDs.
And things like incey wincey spider, here's the church and here's the steeple .... pop goes the weasel etc
Old MacDonald too.

We had to learn the words to 'Green grow the rushes oh' from the internet, as when I randomly sang the 'one is one and all alone' etc. (the only bit of the song I knew), new born DGS was instantly calm. Now the 12 verses still send him to sleep 18 months later, it even worked for his nap on a crowded beach this bank holiday Monday!

Our DS always loved having me sing Lili Marlene to him, I think it was the rhythm relaxed him!
I used to get some very strange looks if I ever sang it to him in public (very, very quietly, I don't have the greatest voice), but that didn't bother me, as I had a relaxed and happy baby!
DGS likes to fall asleep to Old McDonald, if we run out of farm animals, we make it up as we go along...
"Old McDonald had a snake, with a hiss hiss here" etc!

Mafanwy for me, my children and grandchildren , and Mighty Like A Rose, when driving my daughters on long journeys , when they were young , it was The Twelfth of Never

and The Skye Boat song too!

I used to hum Brahms' Lullaby and sing 'Go to sleep my Baby' or 'Morningtown Ride' but sing 'Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do' etc when nappy changing.

Ah, the Skye boat song, referred to as "Peabody", when DS1 was small. He kept saying "Peabody, Daddy, Peabody!"

We didn't know anyone of that name, took quite a bit of time to realise that he meant "Speed bonny" (boat)

My Mum used to sing to me "Loola Bye Bye - do you want the moon to play with "etc
And her version of this one:
www.lullaby-link.com/go-to-sleep-my-little-picaninny.html

My mum used to sing "Go to sleep my baby" and the "Skye boat song" when I was very small, and I sang both to my daughter too.

Brahms ... my MIL used to sing that to her grandchildren, having sung it to her children before that (she was an operatic soprano).

It was sung for her at her funeral in a wonderful duet, accompanied by an acoustic guitar ... not a dry eye in the house.

I used to sing Morningtown Ride to my GS.

Love it - the giraffe song! - poor old Brahms will be turning in his grave!

I used to sing Brahms Lullaby ( among others) to my DDs and have done so with my DGSs. The older one refers to it as ‘The Giraffe song’ as he had a musical wind up giraffe that played the tune.