What type of songs do you sing to your child? Bonus points if they are aren't for sopranos. Ha. I'm just looking for low, soothing songs to sing when my daughter needs to be soothed.
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I like Julie Andrews movies songs.
Do-Ra-Mi (sound of music)
Favorite things (sounds of music)
let's go fly a kite (mary poppins)
spoon full of sugar (mary poppins)I use to sing these all the time to sooth the LOs.
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Oh Christmas tree is one I can think of.
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Puff the Magic Dragon
You Are My Sunshine
The song the guys in Three Men And A Baby sing (goodnight sweetheart)
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Castle on a cloud, and The little people song from Les Mis
Rouge et noir from Les Mis in French
You are my sunshine
A few songs in yiddish that I can't find anywhere (at least not the last several times)
Or I'll do a niggun (repetitive fake words that follow a repetitive tune, it can become trancelike)
It's only a paper moon.Clearly I don't know kids songs.
ETA He learned baby beluga at school. Probably look up Raffi and Fred Penner and stuff?
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You are my sunshine is a favorite. And the Irish blessing (may the road rise to meet you). And she still likes twinkle twinkle every night.
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Sunshine for my DD
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You are my sunshine and I added a verse about her tot hebtune....
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We sing lots of Edelweiss, You Are My Sunshine, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.
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I can't hit the high notes either.
Teddy Bears Picnic
High Hopes
What a Wonderful World -
I literally sing anything and everything in a lower octave, lol. I also make up my own words to tunes on the fly. I'm not help.
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Our goodnight songs are:
Tell me why
The riddle song by Carly Simon
Cowboy LullabyeI also sing an extended version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - you can google the verses, but the original poem has 6 or 7 stanzas.
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At bedtime we sing Puff the Magic Dragon. Also you are my sunshine. And Return to Poo Corner.
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@pwnstar: @winniebee: puff the magic dragon! Great one!
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Mr. Sun
Three Little Birds
Here Comes the Sun -
@winniebee: we loooove Return to Pooh Corner!
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@Alba4: it's one of my old camp songs.
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@winniebee: yes, we sang it at my summer camp too!
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Edelweiss is great!
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My LO still requests Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Silent Night before bed every night....
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@winniebee: at my camp too! Yay camp!!!
I actually sing mostly camp songs to my kids, and end with taps -
This may sound funny, but my LO's lullaby of choice right now is Old McDonald. I just sing it slowly and in a softer voice, and don't emphasize the animal sounds, and it's actually pretty soothing.
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What about Rainbow Connection?
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I just sing whatever in a lower key and slower! I sing anything from nursery rhymes, pop songs, Christian songs... Cartoon theme songs... Haha!
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Silver Bells!
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Jesus Loves Me
Jesus Loves the little children/doggies/kitties
I love you Lord (song from church)
Soft Kitty (BBT) -
I mean, I just sang Corey Hart's "sunglasses at night" last night. Don't know where that came from and clearly don't know all of the words but I made it work.
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I used to sing a song called "Comfort" by Deb Talan of The Weepies when LO was a baby.
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