What Is Your Favorite Lullaby?

Awwww... I love this!

I still sing to my 8yo... and they're the only songs he "lets" me sing (I have a terrible voice)

First was (to the best of my knowledge) made up by my mum (who sang opera, and tended to put anything to music when she was tired in order to stay awake)

Night Night
Sleep Tight
See you in the morning light
Night night
Sleep tight
See you in the morning light.

The 2nd is just one verse "from" 3 men and a baby ;) (1950's song sung by many performers over the years, written by Calvin Carter, & Pookie Hudson

Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight.

Hubby sings Cats in the Cradle and kids love it. His mom sang it to him when he was little and I never heard the song till he sang it!

My SIL has to sing, and I mean SING, Miley Cyrus The Climb each night and her son loves anything Taylor Swift (he's 4).

The songs I rocked my daughter to sleep with:
Imagine - John Lennon
Why Worry - Dire Straits
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
L'Autre Cote de la Rue - Edith Piaf

Blister in the Sun by the Violent Femmes.
I know it sounds scary to some, but I love that band, and when she was little and I was tired it was the first thing that came in my head, so it stuck.
I also sing Mercedes Benz by Janis Joplin a lot.
My SO has always sung Thin Ice by Pink Floyd to our daughter, I guess that was the first song that came to his mind.
=)

"Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) - an ancient English folk song. I sang it to my son and even learned it on the piano to play for him.

"Landslide" - Stevie Nicks. Not a traditional lullabye, but kids love it.

"Lullabye (Good Night, My Angel)" - Billy Joel

"Baby Mine" - Allison Krause

"You Can Close Your Eyes" - James Taylor. I have sung that song to every little one I have ever loved. I better practice up. My first grandbaby is due in May.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXxJHk3vWvo

I always sang and hummed. I know I'm leaving some of my kids' favorites out. I'll have to ask them.

What a fun question!

Best wishes.

My kids love when I rub their eyelids and cheeks lightly with my fingers as I sing:

Day is done, Little One
Close your eyes now Sweet Dreamer
Every star is a light
Watching over you, To-night.

(No it's not from Twilight, it's from a golden book movie in the 80's)

I really like "All the Pretty Little Horses"
go to sleep, go to sleep
go to sleepy, little baby
when you wake, you will have
all the pretty little horses
black and bay
dapple, gray
all the pretty little horses
mommy loves you, daddy loves you
everybody loves you, baby
the butterflies and the flies
are all buzzing 'round your eyes
so pretty baby, go to sleep
and when you wake I will give you a Jeep.

I am not joking, it's a real lullaby. You can find it in "The Sleepy Book"
which is a classic Little Golden Book.

Also, I like Home on the Range, Bicycle Built for Two, Up Up and Away (by the Fifth Dimension), and a lot of Bob Marley songs.

We have a whole collection that we sing from start to finish....and in order! Lol.

Our favorites are:

Hush Little Baby and one we heard on YouTube a few years ago

You're my honeybunch, sugar plum, pumpy-umpy-umpkin
You're my sweetie pie. You're my cuppy-cake, gum drop, snoogums, boogums, oogums; the apple of my eye.
And I love you so, and I want you to know that I'll always be right here
Cuz, I love to sing sweet songs to you, because you are soooo dear!

my kids like "i've been working on the railroad" my grandpa worked on the rr forever and my mom used to sing it to us. they also love to replace the word sunshine with their names in "you are my sunshine"-you are my tommy my only tommy:)

We sing a little of everything, but some of our standards are "Waste" by Phish, "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley and "Ripple" by The Grateful Dead. I know...I was born about 10 years too late for my musical tastes. :-)

Goodnight My Angel (sang it in high school choir and it has stuck with me)

Hush Little Baby

Rock-A-Bye Baby

Somewhere Over the Rainbow (just happened to pop in my head and became one of those songs that soothed my daughter)

Oh and a family tradition my grandpa started which just seems to sooth any crying baby Go Tell Aunt Rhody It really is not a sweet song but the lowness of it really seems to do sooth the little ones.

Sweet Child of Mine... my 7 and 5 year old have loved that song since they were babies

I used to sing the Lion Sleeps tonight and I used to sing Michael Row Your boat a shore but put my kids name in place of Michael. I did this every night from birth to about 18 months with all 3 of them, some of my most treasured memories. J.

My 2 year old son and I sing everynight together before he goes to sleep. My favorite is "You are My Sunshine", which he sings with me. But our "night-night" song (the last song of the night) is Edelweiss from the Sound of Music. I don't even remember how it got put into the routine. But I love hearing him sing it. He will even sing it to himself as he colors, plays with blocks, etc. Nothing like hearing his sweet little voice sing "Edel-Byes", it makes me smile everytime! Good question!

Mine is one that I modified with the help of Mamapedia mammas. :)

~tune of 'you are my sunshine'

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy, when skies are gray
You'll never know Dear, how much I love you
I always love, my sunshiney day

The other night dear, as you lay dreaming
I sat and held you, in my arms
Then you woke and, smiled at me
I'll always keep, you safe and warm

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
but now it's time dear, to drift away
and while you're sleeping, know Mommy loves you
More and more, with each new day.

My other one I don't know the tune, I found the words on a website so I had to find a rythm that worked for it... But I really liked the words for a lullaby.

To and fro
so soft and slow
I rock my sweet (baby name) so
but still she lies
with laughing eyes
and will not into dreamland go

Lullaby the crickets cry
the stars a-twinkle in the sky
soft dews fall
while bluebirds call
and swiftly homeward the swallows fly

Sleep baby sleep
in slumber so deep
while sweet dreams across your eyes do creep

and all the night
the pale moonlight
into your little cradle peeps

To and fro,
more soft, more slow,
and sound asleep my (baby name) lies.

Kay Sera Sera (whatever will be will be)
Twinkle Twinkle
Amazing Grace
O come O come Emanuel
(not too sure how those last ones got on our list...I think we were singing them for Christmas and they just stayed. lol)
But the first song was the one I sang my eldest until he was almost 6...and I still sing it to him when he is sick or upset, and he's 8 1/2!
L.

My son was born on a Sunday, so I sing Etta James 'Sunday Kind of Love'
:)

We used to sing the Beatles to my son. When he became old enough to care, he used to want all the songs from "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh." And then songs from Thomas the Tank Engine (ugh). Now we're down to "Itsy Bitsy Spider."

My husband whistles Brahms' lullaby to our daughter.

"You're Nearer" was my favorite lullaby when I was little and I've been singing it to DS since he was in my belly.

Here is is performed by Judy Garland :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6N9O5Mvn-o

HTH
T.

I sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and La La Lullaby by the Pajanimals (Sprout -Good night show)
My DH will sing him Micky Mouse LOL very softly and also ABC's :-)

and if hes 'Done' with a song he'll let you know and you just move on to another one !

This question makes me smile as I fondly remember those wonderful times singing to my son as we cuddles in a big chair together!! I use to sing Twinkle Twinkle, I've been Working on the Railroad every night along with a few others I can't remember the names of. My son is almost 13 now, and I would love to have a few of those wonderful nights back now and then! What wonderful times those were!!

I am a singer so my son expects me to make up a different song every time he wants me to sing. Luckily he does not know all of the music out there ... one day it will come back and bite me when he hears a song and says "hey my mommy wrote that song when I was 5!"

I have four kids, when they were little (oldest is 20 now) we watched alot of Winnie the Pooh! He sang one song we all loved.
I'm just a little black rain cloud
hovering under the honey tree
oh ...I'm only a little black rain cloud
pay no attention to little me
Oh...everyone knows that a rain cloud never is funny no not a bit!
I'm just floating around over the ground wondering where I will drip drip drip

Can't believe I remember it! Probably haven't sang it in 10 years! Hopefully it is fairly accurate. Thanks for posting this..it is a wonderful memory!

My kids LOVE Rock a Bye Bear by the Wiggles:

"Everybody clap (action: clap, clap, clap)
everybody sing (action: lalalala)
bow to your partner (action: bow)
then you turn around (action: turn around and say yippee!)
hands in the air (action: hands in the air)
rockabye bear (action: rocking motion)
bear is now alseep (action: finger to mouth)
shh..shh.shh."