Favorite Songs to Sing

Lee81 · November 2013

What are your favorite songs to sing LO, especially to try to get them to sleep. I'm starting to get bored of Goodnight My Angel and Rainbow Connection

allisonty11 · November 2013

You are my sunshine. That's always the first song I think of!

chuicafina · November 2013

You are my sunshine too, but it ALWAYS makes me cry. DS (my toddler) usually asks me to stop singing it. I think he senses the sadness in my voice.

Painterlady · November 2013

Don't Look Back in Anger by Oasis. Don't know why...he just loves it. Puts him to sleep every time. It's not even my favorite Oasis song...would have preferred Supersonic honestly.

Ycu2013 · November 2013

I'm weird...I sing 'I don't want to close my eyes' by Aero Smith

That's the first song that came to mind when I had him! And he loves it, he always stops crying. With first DS I use to sing 'my brown eyed girl' but I would substitute boy for girl in the words. :-P

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sleepy33 · November 2013

Baby of mine from dumbo

taylormarie923 · November 2013

My kid loves the Beatles and Elvis so those are my go tos. He doesn't like the slow songs though, so we do the faster ones like all shook up.

disneymomtotwo · November 2013

Ycu2013 said:
I'm weird...I sing 'I don't want to close my eyes' by Aero Smith

I just tried singing this to LO and immediately started crying. This is a no for me lol. I'm going to stick with a slow version of a silly little chicken song in spanish.

MrsShankly1012 · November 2013

Eternal Flame by the Bangles has been my go to with both kids because it opens with a plea to "close your eyes."
I've also sang the entire Disintegration album by the Cure to DS1. I have fortunately not had to do this with #2 yet.

Painterlady · November 2013

MrsShankly1012 said:
Eternal Flame by the Bangles has been my go to with both kids because it opens with a plea to "close your eyes."
I've also sang the entire Disintegration album by the Cure to DS1. I have fortunately not had to do this with #2 yet.

I've sang Lovesong to my LO...he still prefers oasis, though. Robert Smirh just doesn't do it for him I suppose.

Lilpoppy · November 2013

Bob Marley - every little thing is gonna be alright

jnsmith85 · November 2013

anything George Strait

he listened to him in utero all the time!! Good thing he doesn't care that mommy's singing voice sounds like nails on a chalkboard!

bionicb · November 2013

Maroon 5, calms her immediately. Disney songs. You are my sunshine (though its history is terrible! ) And actually, Royals by Lourde/Lorde (sp?) She loooooves when I sing that, she quiets and focuses so entirely its amazing. The Beatles too, we like "Dear Prudence" for feedings and wake up times.

I got frustrated last night and accidently fell into a song with the lyric "count bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums." Oops. But it starts soft and I was beyond exhausted. "Don't cry precious I'm here, step away from the window, go back to sleep... " etc. Not a bright and shiny parenting moment, but I stopped before the questionable lyrics so I didnt feel to bad.

laurenmdrn16 · November 2013

Stay Awake from Mary Poppins
Into the West from LOTR
The Blessing by The Celtic Women
Let it Be Me and You are the Best Thing by Ray Lamontagne

And then whatever I am singing that Sunday or if I have a gig I will use bedtime for rehearsing!

SnoopyLuv · November 2013

Toora Loora Loora, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Disney movie songs (DD1 has them on constant loop), Christmas songs, Beatles. I have a Pandora lullaby station that's pretty awesome and plays a lot of soft adult rock stuff like the Beatles and Jewel. It was awesome with DD1.

RedZee · November 2013

I should save this for FFFC, but the first song I sang to DD1 was Friends In Low Places. Without knowing it, DH did the same thing. At different points we've sung Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and ABC. And there were 10 in the bed and the little one said roll over.

Even worse, I don't think I've really sung to DD2 at all. I have tried the lullaby I sing to DD1 a couple of times and I think she recognized it a bit. But stayed awake.

carawasa · November 2013

I need to brush up on nursery rhymes because I started singing some to LO and realized I don't know the words...to any of them ha

Inn2 · November 2013

Mary Had A Little Lamb
Hush Little Baby
On My Own
Baby Mine

cassey910 · November 2013

I make up songs. My husband sings auld lang syne which makes me laugh and annoys me at the same time but LO loves it.

slh6363 · November 2013

I can never think of any so end up making them up! I always end up going back to my same made up song lol

Kessho · November 2013

It depends on time and situation.

Here comes the sun for when it's morning wake up time

Carry on my wayward son is whenever but I seem to sing it more during dipes changes I see the light from that Rapunzel movie

Bohemian rhapsody when it's bath time.

pmarie33 · November 2013

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
ABCs
You Are My Sunshine
Itsy Bitsy Spider

When I get sick of these I turn on my phone and jam to my playlist

DETrent · November 2013

I sing Here Comes the Sun and Golden Slumbers by the Beatles. Those are our morning and night songs, but we have several others to fill the in-between time!

sooner1981 · November 2013

We must be the only parents who don't worry about "questionable lyrics" when it comes to singing. My mom read every agatha Christie nursed mystery to me when I was a baby and she was home on maternity leave. She said she just made her voice sing-songy as she read the words

I turned into a complete bookworm and don't had any ill effects from listening to murder mysteries from birth to six months!

CousinVicki · November 2013

Frere Jacques is my go to song with lots of made up lyrics ha

Ballstategrad · November 2013

I don't know how this was started but my dd1 started requesting the Star-Spangled Banner, America the beautiful and amazing grace, in that order. America and Jesus.

Jalee85 · November 2013

Uhm...Mommy Fail! I haven't sang to my LO yet

|)

Unless if singing along to the radio in my car counts ;;)

Mama2be12345 · November 2013

Safe and Sound by Taylor Swift, although it's prob mean to sing to LO because I have a terrible voice

shelley1002 · November 2013

Disarm by Smashing Pumpkins
She Talks to Angels by Black Crows
Killing Me Softly

manders726 · November 2013

We don't really sing to either DD or DS, besides singing along to CD's or the radio in the car. DD loves The Lumineers, Coldplay, and the Avett Brothers- I've refused to get any "kids" music for the car, with the exception of the Yo Gabba Gabba soundtracks because they're awesome. I think my proudest mom moment came when she was 3- I put on a CD and she said, "Is this The Talking Heads?"

If we do sing, we usually make up a song to go along with whatever activity we're doing at the moment.

We also have a collection of the Rock-A-Bye Baby CD's for DD to listen to at bedtime. She's currently listening to the DMB one (yeah, that's all me) but also loves Coldplay, The Cure, and Metallica (that's DH) versions. We'll have to get another CD player for DS's room at some point; I think we introduced those to DD around a year old.

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