My repertoire consists of the following:
A bunch of Sunday School sings (bc I can remember all the words no matter how sleep deprived I am)
I've been working on the railroad - my grandma used to sing this to us!
Here comes the sun, blackbird, yesterday, and whatever other Beatles snippets I can remember
Is this love and three little birds, and whatever other bob marley bits I can remember.
What do you sing to your little one?
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
Lots of Beatles songs, TMBG songs, songs from the Muppets (my favorite is The Rainbow Connection), The Itsy-Bitsy Spider, and You are My Sunshine
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
You Are My Sunshine, The Wheels on the Bus, Leaving on a Jet Plane. Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Twinkle Twinkle, What a Wonderful World and whatever else comes to mind.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
Itsy-Bitsy Spider, Row Row Your Boat, You are my Sunshine, Twinkle Twinkle, Patty Cake, 5 In a bed (and the little one said), Mockingbird, Jesus Loves Me, This Little Light, ect.
Non-nursery rhymes that we sing and dance too include (and this is sad to admit) 90s rap songs (Push It is her favorite), Bob Marley, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, and George Strait.
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
Isty-Bitsy (his fave), Twinkle Twinkle, ABC's, You Are My Sunshine, The Wheels on the Bus, Patty Cake, and lots of songs that I modify to be applicable to him -- I forget the name of one but it's like "If all the raindrops were lemondrops and gumdrops oh what a world it would be..."
Anyone know camp songs? I also sing Barges and the Christopher Robbin song.
persimmon / 1341 posts
You are my sunshine is my never fail, go to song for soothing her. I sing to her a lot aside from that but it's usually whatever is on the radio.
GOLD / pineapple / 12662 posts
@FutureMrsMcK: @WinnieBee: LO's fave is Itsy Bitsy Spider!
I also sing her Hotel California and Sweet Child Of Mine (she loves those too!).
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts
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And his bedtime lullaby is sleep song by secret garden
olive / 71 posts
I sing whatever comes to mind. Lately, I introduced him to Criss Cross, Apple Sauce (the chant that has actions like drawing an X on his back and fingers walking up his back, etc). He seems to really enjoy it and giggles the whole time.
GOLD / pineapple / 12662 posts
I also sing her Happy Together, a song I didn't really like until I had BabyGloss.
Imagine me and you, I do
I think about you day and night, it's only right
To think about the girl you love and hold her tight
So happy together
If I should call you up, invest a dime
And you say you belong to me and ease my mind
Imagine how the world could be, so very fine
So happy together
I can't see me lovin' nobody but you
For all my life
When you're with me, baby the skies'll be blue
For all my life
Me and you and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice, it has to be
The only one for me is you, and you for me
So happy together
I can't see me lovin' nobody but you
For all my life
When you're with me, baby the skies'll be blue
For all my life
Me and you and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice, it has to be
The only one for me is you, and you for me
So happy together
Ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba
Ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba
Me and you and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice, it has to be
The only one for me is you, and you for me
So happy together
So happy together
How is the weather
So happy together
We're happy together
So happy together
Happy together
So happy together
So happy together (ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba)
clementine / 916 posts
@FutureMrsMcK: @mediagirl: @LuLu Mom: @winniebee: @eeh: I sing "you are my sunshine" too.. but I was just wondering, do you cut out the depressing parts?
Ex. "In all my dreams, dear, you seem to leave me
When I awake my poor heart pains.
So when you come back and make me happy
I'll forgive you dear, I'll take all the blame."
I sing all kinds of musical songs to my LO. Her favorite is "put on a happy face".
eggplant / 11824 posts
@LaineysMom: the whole song is depressing IMO! Reading the lyrics, I don't get how it became such a happy hit haha but it is catchy!
I sing made up songs using LO's name, and also the tunes of her favorites: Lady Gaga and Katie Perry. Sometimes Taylor Swift, nursery rhymes, etc.
GOLD / grapefruit / 4007 posts
Jesus loves me
The wheels on the bus
I've been working on the railroad
Twinkle twinkle
And......
Moon River (????) no idea why
clementine / 916 posts
@yoursilverlining: Haha I agree! But that verse is extra depressing..
honeydew / 7504 posts
"You Are My Sunshine" and “Wheels in the Bus" are the only kid songs I can ever think of. Usually I just sing whatever happens to be in my head, which has been anything from Death Cab for Cutie to Adele to the Beatles to Passion Pit....I'm all over the place. At night, during his lotion massage at bedtime, I always sing "Lullaby," by the Dixie Chicks.
pomegranate / 3729 posts
Everyday I sing her "Oh, Mr. Sun", "If you're happy and you know it", and "hush little baby". Others I sing are "5 little ducks", "5 little monkeys jumping on the bed", and "5 in the bed". Also, everytime I wash her hair I sing the song my Mom and Dead always sang to me during bathtime called "clean-o" ("oh mommy oh mommy, come wash my hair. And make it nice and clean-o").
GOLD / cantaloupe / 6703 posts
I do the Kokobura song for her but change the words around. Her bed time song is Rock-a-bye Baby. I've also sung countless hymns and Sunday School songs.
cantaloupe / 6610 posts
@MsLipGloss: So cute and appropriate! I'm stealing!
I realized that I need to brush up on my lullaby knowledge! I would sing "Hush little baby don 't say a word, mama's gonna buy you a mocking bird, and if that mocking bird don't sing....Hmmmm hmmmm hmmmm hmmm hmm hmmmmm:)"
pomelo / 5321 posts
Bushel & a Peck, Amazing Grace, Jesus Loves Me, You Are My Sunshine, Amazing Love, Dirt Road Prayer, and lots of other hymns and praise songs.
cherry / 178 posts
Ooh some really good songs to try!
Not much of a singer but "My Mikey Lies Over the Ocean" (to the tune of My Bonnie) for nap time and bedtime, which he really loves.
His recently new fave is Skip to My Lou My Darling...
Also, You are My Sunshine, Row Row, Twinkle Twinkle, Farmer in the Dell... I sing him a lot of Christmas Carols even though Christmas is long gone. I also like to hum Spring by Vivaldi.
clementine / 916 posts
@crystbum: OMG that song is so depressing! The more you sing the worse it gets.. haha.
cantaloupe / 6630 posts
The usual nursery rhymes, but we make up a lot of songs with her name in them and just steal the tune.
@FutureMrsMcK: i@mediagirl: @winniebee: @LaineysMom: @littlebug: @yoursilverlining: I tried singing You Are My Sunshine once but had crazy pp hormones at the time and the line So please don't take my sunshine away made me cry as I couldn't imagine life without A so I skip that song now, lol.
@PrincessBaby: Ha ha, I have to make up lines for that song after the diamond ring line. Usually mama ends up buying her outfits full of glitter and bottles of wine and all sorts, which makes it totally age inappropriate, lol.
hostess / watermelon / 14932 posts
@LuLu Mom: hah I sing 5 in a bed too! And you changed your name!!
@winniebee: love that song! Standing outside with my mouth open wide, ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah! Lol
I sing whatever comes to mind, lots are made up. She loves loves loves Do Re Mi from Sound of Music!
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
@sorrycharlie: Yes, decided it was time to not be so close to my real name 
Five in the Bed is her favorite, I started to sing it when we were trying to get her to roll over and it just stuck!
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22276 posts
Rock a bye baby
Twinkle Twinkle little star
and I make some stuff up
pomelo / 5720 posts
Isty-Bitsy, Twinkle Twinkle, ABC's, You Are My Sunshine, The Wheels on the Bus, Patty Cake, Old MacDonald (his fave), Row Row Row Your Boat, Noble Duke of York, BINGO (another fav), and other stuff I make up.
GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts
Twinkle, Twinkle, Litte Star, ABCs and I'm a little teapot, short & stout! Haha
cherry / 178 posts
@mslipgloss: thanks for sharing "so happy together"! Tried it out today and I think he liked it
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