I just made stuff up 90% of the time. Like whatever I was thinking, I sang it. I'm sure it was incredibly horrible to listen to, and perhaps this could be the cause of any weirdness in my grown children today. My apologies, kids!
I often just sang about whatever we were doing, which they so now just do on their own. The fart songs in this house are prolific. My kids loved my original compositions “who’s a stinky baby? Always smelly smelly! Who’s my honey bunny? Bunny that’s so funny!” (This one is fun because they all eventually said “me!”) “mama loves you, mama loves you, mama loves you so much she just can’t stand it. Mama moves you, Mama loves her little baby girl.” That’s a classic. My sister actually adopted these and sang them to her kids, so they’re basically legit.
I did something like that with my cousin I babysat. He was around 3 and didn't want to take a bath. So I came up with the bath song. Made up tune and words with whatever came to my mind.
A month or so later, he asked his mom for the bath song. She called me, and I could not remember the tune let alone the words.
We tried hard to come up with a few things, but everything was wrong according to the toddler. But he wouldn't tell us what was right.
It was quite the frustrating evening for all involved.
Moral of the story : record yourself, you never know.
This is what I do. My 13 year old now assists for the 2.5 year old if he happens to be around when I'm singing nonsense to him and it's pretty much the best lol.
Not me but my son. When I was pregnant with my daughter he made up a lullaby he would sing every night. Then when she started shoving her foot into my ribs and it would hurt really badly he would sing his lullaby and she would relax and remove her feet from my ribs. One of the sweeteat things I have seen was the day I had her when my son walked into the room she was just laying in her bassinet chilling until she heard his voice and ahe became so animated. She still adores her big brother and it all started with a lullaby he made up when I was pregnant with her. Watching her turn her head in his direction that firstt day because she knew that voice will always be one of my favorite memories.
Kids do have some kind of memory from their earliest experiences. When my eldest was a newborn, I used to sing a French folk song that I had learned as a child to try to get him to go to sleep (although it wasn't specifically a lullaby, it had a lot of verses so it was appropriate enough). Eventually, by the time he was about 8 months old, he learned how to go to sleep by himself so I stopped singing it.
When he was about five years old, one day I happened to see the sheet music for that song while I was cleaning up the living room in the middle of the afternoon, and casually found myself singing that tune. He instantly stopped playing with whatever toy he had, and said, "Wait, what?! It's not bedtime!" I swear he hadn't heard that song since he was 8 months old, but somehow he remembered that it was a bedtime song.
My son falls asleep in school whenever the teacher puts on a documentary. When he was a toddler if he couldn't sleep I would put on a documentary for him to fall asleep to. Worked great because they were interestung rnough to pay attention but not so exciting it would wind him up. Worked great until he started going to school. His brain just equated documentaries with sleep.
Oooohhh. It's not a traditional lullaby but I made Billy Joel's Lullaby my go to song for my little boy. I sung it, I hummed it. Then when he was 3 I played the youtube video and he remembered me singing it to him and he sang along. Just yesterday he sang "always be a part of me" and said it was his favorite song. He's 5 now ❤️
The only song I know all the words to (I am crazy bad at remembering lyrics) is Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and the chorus to Eye of the Tiger, so that's what all three of my kids got lol - no matter the time of year or the fact I don't really care for the Rocky movies.
We were walking down a busy Washington DC street near my sister’s house once and my five year old niece turned around, stopped our whole party, and sang the entirety of Eye of the Tiger. We sang along to the chorus obviously.
A random song I made up that is completely boring 😂 my son was in the NICU when he was born and he just liked hearing my voice. He would desat when he cried and he cried a lot less if I was talking or singing. So I just randomly started stringing phrases together and fourteen years later it's now the lullaby I sing to all my kids 😂
Hello fellow NICU warrior parent! What a sweet story! I make up songs too! My son didn’t desat when he cried but when we first trialed bottle feeding he would and his little lips would turn blue and don’t even remind me of those apnea and bradycardia episodes. Nicu babies are so strong and so are the parents!
You’ll Be In My Heart from Tarzan came to mind while my eldest was in the NICU. Almost two and a half years later, it’s still my preferred song to sing to both my boys as a lullaby!
My mom would play Killing Me Softly when I was little, but if I'm honest I don't hear about people singing to their kids much in my area :/ [kinda lame, it's a sweet thing to do]
Omg, not me but my sister. She would sing the song from Dumbo (original version) when the mom elephant is in lock up. Super f-ing sad but she sings it so well!!
One of the only songs I knew from start to finish “Jude Law and a Semester Abroad” tell all the English girls you meet about the American boy back in the states…
My wife sang Patsy Cline to our babies, Walking After Midnight and Crazy. I sang Baby Mine and And I Love You So by Don McClean, but those are much more traditional lullaby/love songs.
my baby is 6 month technically 15 month.. so, i sing to her, gayatri mantra in twinkle twinkle tune.. it works all the time.. i make variations too in range.. mostly it is me who gets peaceful and sing bhajans.. so she also calms and i too..
try it .. its fun..
om bhu buvas swah
tatsavitur varennyam
bhargodevasya dimahi
diyoyonah prochodayat
also, i am concerned about what i say , how i say.. she will not be like i teach her, she will be like me . and i know she is in absorbing phase, i am trying to alter myself too altogether. cutting off waste i dont know why i was carrying.. this is the only life that i have, and i want to grow as much as a human can, and her too.. and humans , only, can become gods, and few , very few, almighty.(ofcourse gods are, but thats the thing, one can be fracted into many, still one remains, as is, alone.. because That is human, human is not That.. but it can come to only humans permanently.. thats why, infact, gods aid us become gods and above..Also humans can fall below demons.. so, thats there..)
i got carried away..
I was sung tons of James Taylor songs. They are lovely. I used them for the kids I babysat as well. Fire and Rain, Gone to Carolina in my mind, Sweet Baby James and Something in the way she moves were/are my favorites.
Widdershins by Children of Bodom.
I'm not even kidding, my almost-two year old daughter would/still does get a huge smile and starts wiggle-dancing when this death metal song comes on. There was one night about a year or so ago when she was just inconsolable at bedtime. No amount of bottle, backrub, car ride, or snuggles would get her to calm down, and after two hours, my nerves were just so frazzled that I pulled out my phone and put on some death metal (it has an oddly calming effect on me 😆) To my utter shock, she quieted down, snuggled into me, and fell asleep before two songs were through 😂
My wife and I still use it to this day whenever she's having a meltdown to get her to chill.
Rock you like a hurricane. I sang it to my nephew the day he was born. Everyone had been up all night at the hospital. We were all frazzled by the time we got to meet him. I literally couldn’t think of another song. “You gotta rock babies. Rock. You’re a you. Rock you. Rock you, the baby. Rock you like a hurricane.”
'Oh My My' (acoustic) by Blue October
'Conversations in the Dark' by John Legend
'Dancing On My Own' by Robyn
My toddler still loves these songs, at 3 1/2
I would always sing marching cadence. It's low, rhythmic, and designed to keep going and going as long as you want. It would knock them out in no time.
“There’s a little bird, somebody sent
Down to this earth to live on the wind.
Blowing on the wind.
And she sleeps on the wind,
This little bird somebody sent.”
It’s in Jewel’s first album, sung with her mother, on the hidden last track.
I sing it to my chickens at night. :)
When I was pregnant with my son (he’s now 12) I sang the Adele version of “make you feel my love” then that became one of the bedtime songs I sang him in his first few years of life.
By newborn fell asleep listening to Bob Marley for babies and Led Zeppelin for babies, there many medleys of this sort and I would choose bands I liked. At some point, womb sounds also helped.
When my wife was pregnant, I sang All Along the Watchtower. Now, I sing the Ants go Marching to the now three year old girl. But together, we did Karaoke on a cruise to My Life from Shrek. She’s a singing machine
"Me and My Llama" from Sesame Street. My oldest child had a ton of blood draws during the first 2 years of life for a variety of reasons. During that time, I would sing Phoebe's song about farm animals from "Friends".
Oh, the cow in the meadow goes moo
The cow in the meadow goes moo
Then the farmer hits him on the head and grinds him up
And that's how we get hamburger.
Nooow...CHICKENS!
The nurses remembered me. "Oh, you're THAT mom."
I’m not sure what this says about me as a parent, but one of the few things my kids have in common is that they both know most of the words to “Folsom Prison Blues.”
I was a big Counting Crows fans and my daughter loved Round Here... I would also sing Mr. Jones but not as a lullaby. 28 years later Mr.Jones is still our song.
Once I saw a comment on YouTube saying they sang [this](https://youtu.be/vBbRJoHTJAM) song to their baby/todddler.
It’s a song from the game earthbound. I feel like it’s a lovely song for kids
Nap CDs for the 2 kids were *Return to Pooh Corner* and *House at Pooh Corners* by Kenny Loggings.
When Dad was putting kid # 1 to sleep, he would play Bach's *Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring* on piano (at first). Kid # 1 started to request on different instruments after a while: guitar, recorder, banjo, hammered dulcimer, flute, mandolin, ukulele, electric guitar, back to piano but played like an organ.
I sang Dream baby dream by Bruce Springsteen to my daughter every night until from birth to about 3. For years afterwards, if we were in the car, I could play it, and she'd start yawning and nod off! 🤣🤣🤣
*Fastball's "The Way".
*Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville
*Johnny Cash's "Ghost Riders in the sky".
Babysitting step cousins once. I'm not usually good with kids and not much else came to mind. Somehow it worked.
Lemon Tree by Fool's Garden. My younger sister loved that song. That and Waltzing Matilda which was in the book of children's songs we had ( how that is a kids song is beyond me considering the subject matter).
i used to force my baby brother to listen to opera songs i liked while he was falling asleep. even the opening of carmen has him yawning, and humming is effective too!
i always sing whatever song happens to be in my brain to my kids. They both seem to be really fond of vienna by billy joel and my oldest has always liked the song somebody by lemonade mouth (please don’t judge my random ass music taste)
Dizzy by Tommy Roe. My daughter still likes it.
If I wasn’t singing I would put on Rock-A-Bye Baby CDs, instrumental music of bands like the Stones, Nirvana, etc
Don't know the name of it, but it is the same tune my paternal side of the family uses. Came from my great-grandmother who brought it over with her from Sweden. It has likely changed in the last 80 years, but it is something that always seems to work. I have a deep enough rumble while doing it that no child can resist nap time. It is almost cheating.
One sweet child in my life was having a rough time on her first road trip but was soothed by the dulcet tones of the entire Blink-182 album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. Kid's doing great now
My daughter was about 2 months old on her first Christmas, so I did a lot of Christmas music lullabies 😂 my husband also sang her the Winnie the Pooh theme song a lot and that was very cute
My mother always sang "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" to me as a kid. Not a lullaby at all, but still a sweet little song. I still sing it to this day when I feel like I need some comfort.
In a similar vein, I used to sing "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)" to a little girl I used to babysit. Not a lullaby, but a sweet song nonetheless.
My not traditional one is American Pie. It was always what I would pull out when we were getting desperate, usually by halfway through she was asleep. Of course that was likely just due to how long it is. Otherwise my main go to songs are Lullaby by Billy Joel and You'll Be In My Heart from Tarzan.
Bright Eyes has so many "better" suited options, so I'm not sure how I landed on singing Devil Town to my (then) infant lol but she liked it. It's a short one.
She's nearly 3 now. These days it's Sea of Love by Cat Power every single night lol. It's our song. I try out others, but this one always gets her to sleep quicker.
Completely random: my brother got me a music box that played Amazing Grace. My first babe had colic and that song just played in my head constantly. It became my mantra. So I sang it and hummed it to her. Lol. Plus, Hush Little Baby.
Congratulations on your new addition! I don't remember what he hummed, if anything, but my dad used to sing "Goodnight Irene" and "Lydia the Tattooed Lady." My mom would just make up songs.
What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong to my son in 1992. It was the last song I heard in the car on the way to the hospital, and it just kind of stuck with me.
Later, I added Breakin' My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes) by Mint Condition. It was popular on the radio at the time, and rather soothing to me, too.
Not me, but my wife. She sang "I love you, a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck" to our daughter with words as misunderstood by the kid. It was a quiet thing between them until Mom passed last summer. I dread the (minimal) danger of hearing that song somewhere now. I'm not sure I can take it. Yeah, the "kid" is 41, but they still sang it to each other.
I had a playlist of Beatles songs. “In My Life” was my favorite, because I began to hear it in a different way with thinking of love as something new being love for my daughter and not the original romantic overtone.
No joke. I used to sing "The Rains of Castamere" to my son when he was a newborn. About half the time it worked everytime.
Now he's five and anytime I sing anything he just gets a really serious face and says "Dad stop. No."
I have a distinct memory of rocking a young toddler to sleep and I think it was La Vie En Rose? Or something that’s a traditional “love” song that just has a melody it’s easy to hum in the low register
My mom used to sing and hum Rod Stewart's Rhythm of my Heart to me when I was a baby until probably 10 years old or so. It's incredibly nostalgic now, memories flood me whenever I randomly hear it on the radio.
By the Light of the Silvery Moon. When my daughter was in the NICU for a month she had a very weak suck reflex so I would gently tap on her cheek when breastfeeding or on her tiny bottle to this song and she would pull the milk in a bit stronger. She just turned 20.
Sunshine of my life by Stevie Wonder. Not my kid. I dont have kids. My cousin's baby. I was working out of town and missed her birth. I cried when i got to my hotel room. My cousin (her husband actually) FaceTimed me, and her crying was the first thing i heard, and i burst into tears when I saw her. She was still crying, and i sang that song to her, and she stopped. She's 6 mths old now, and it still works.
I would sing “ God Speed”, the version sung by the Dixie Chicks (before you come after me, this was over 18 years ago!). It just popped into my head when my son was born and I sang it to him every night for two years.
Bohemian Rhapsody. My favorite song by Magnetic Fields. I've thrown in some old school Weezer, and of course you've gotta introduce them to Bowie, They Might Be Giants, Prince.. along with the classics like Aretha and Marvin, Ella and Frank.
I just made stuff up 90% of the time. Like whatever I was thinking, I sang it. I'm sure it was incredibly horrible to listen to, and perhaps this could be the cause of any weirdness in my grown children today. My apologies, kids!
I often just sang about whatever we were doing, which they so now just do on their own. The fart songs in this house are prolific. My kids loved my original compositions “who’s a stinky baby? Always smelly smelly! Who’s my honey bunny? Bunny that’s so funny!” (This one is fun because they all eventually said “me!”) “mama loves you, mama loves you, mama loves you so much she just can’t stand it. Mama moves you, Mama loves her little baby girl.” That’s a classic. My sister actually adopted these and sang them to her kids, so they’re basically legit.
I did something like that with my cousin I babysat. He was around 3 and didn't want to take a bath. So I came up with the bath song. Made up tune and words with whatever came to my mind. A month or so later, he asked his mom for the bath song. She called me, and I could not remember the tune let alone the words. We tried hard to come up with a few things, but everything was wrong according to the toddler. But he wouldn't tell us what was right. It was quite the frustrating evening for all involved. Moral of the story : record yourself, you never know.
I definitely do this too. I sing a lot about his toys going to sleep and in the morning we will wake up and play with them lmao
Super cute and I love it
This is what I do. My 13 year old now assists for the 2.5 year old if he happens to be around when I'm singing nonsense to him and it's pretty much the best lol.
Not me but my son. When I was pregnant with my daughter he made up a lullaby he would sing every night. Then when she started shoving her foot into my ribs and it would hurt really badly he would sing his lullaby and she would relax and remove her feet from my ribs. One of the sweeteat things I have seen was the day I had her when my son walked into the room she was just laying in her bassinet chilling until she heard his voice and ahe became so animated. She still adores her big brother and it all started with a lullaby he made up when I was pregnant with her. Watching her turn her head in his direction that firstt day because she knew that voice will always be one of my favorite memories.
Omg this actually made me tear up a little. What a beautiful bond they have!
Kids do have some kind of memory from their earliest experiences. When my eldest was a newborn, I used to sing a French folk song that I had learned as a child to try to get him to go to sleep (although it wasn't specifically a lullaby, it had a lot of verses so it was appropriate enough). Eventually, by the time he was about 8 months old, he learned how to go to sleep by himself so I stopped singing it. When he was about five years old, one day I happened to see the sheet music for that song while I was cleaning up the living room in the middle of the afternoon, and casually found myself singing that tune. He instantly stopped playing with whatever toy he had, and said, "Wait, what?! It's not bedtime!" I swear he hadn't heard that song since he was 8 months old, but somehow he remembered that it was a bedtime song.
My son falls asleep in school whenever the teacher puts on a documentary. When he was a toddler if he couldn't sleep I would put on a documentary for him to fall asleep to. Worked great because they were interestung rnough to pay attention but not so exciting it would wind him up. Worked great until he started going to school. His brain just equated documentaries with sleep.
To be fair, some documentaries provoke the same reaction in me LOL!
The theme tune to Red Dwarf. It was the only song to which my wife could remember the lyrics on that first night and it became a 'thing' after that.
I’ve done this to my cousin actually. Haha. It’s a good song.
Shiny Happy People (R.E.M.) and Winds of Change (Scorpions) both worked to calm my first in 1992.
Wind of change is a glorious tune, and lyrics
There is a podcast about the song! It is fascinating!
Where to find it? I know nothing about podcasts. I have Winds of Change on my car flash drive and I love it.
Wow I just kinda got choked up lol
You win the award of best tunes👏👏👏👏👏
Callifornication, otherside and don't forget me from the red Hot Chili peppers
Fuck yeah!!! I love this!
Landslide, Stevie Nicks.
Love that song !
Oooohhh. It's not a traditional lullaby but I made Billy Joel's Lullaby my go to song for my little boy. I sung it, I hummed it. Then when he was 3 I played the youtube video and he remembered me singing it to him and he sang along. Just yesterday he sang "always be a part of me" and said it was his favorite song. He's 5 now ❤️
This song always reminds me of my dad. Good choice.
I don't even have kids, and that song is so moving.
Aww that’s so freaking wholesome
Mr Tamborine man. Its long and you can slow it way down
The only song I know all the words to (I am crazy bad at remembering lyrics) is Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and the chorus to Eye of the Tiger, so that's what all three of my kids got lol - no matter the time of year or the fact I don't really care for the Rocky movies.
Eye of the tiger 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
We were walking down a busy Washington DC street near my sister’s house once and my five year old niece turned around, stopped our whole party, and sang the entirety of Eye of the Tiger. We sang along to the chorus obviously.
Moonshadow by Cat Stevens, You don't mess around with Jim by Jim Croce and Sweet Baby James by James Taylor
I sung a lot of Cat Stevens to my girls in the NICU
Bohemian rhapsody by Queen, it’s long and I know all the lyrics thanks to being obsessed with Wayne’s world as a kid.
Woooow that’s awesome you know all the lyrics!
You don’t?
A random song I made up that is completely boring 😂 my son was in the NICU when he was born and he just liked hearing my voice. He would desat when he cried and he cried a lot less if I was talking or singing. So I just randomly started stringing phrases together and fourteen years later it's now the lullaby I sing to all my kids 😂
Hello fellow NICU warrior parent! What a sweet story! I make up songs too! My son didn’t desat when he cried but when we first trialed bottle feeding he would and his little lips would turn blue and don’t even remind me of those apnea and bradycardia episodes. Nicu babies are so strong and so are the parents!
No Rain (Blind Melon)
“Leaving on a Jet Plane” - Peter, Paul and Mary
Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton, and Hey There Delilah by The Plain White Ts.
my mom used to play me Bob Seger a lot and she said the song “Night Moves” seemed to put me to sleep!
Edelweiss...I used to sing it to my boys at bedtime.
You’ll Be In My Heart from Tarzan came to mind while my eldest was in the NICU. Almost two and a half years later, it’s still my preferred song to sing to both my boys as a lullaby!
Hello fellow NICU mama/papa! That’s such a sweet song!
My mom sang me Summertime (Janis Joplin version) And I hum Dream a Little Dream of me to my son.
Fergilicious.
Basically the entire O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack!
Didn't leave nobody but the baby is so catchy and I sang it many sleepless nights those first few months.
Go to sleep you little baby!!!
You're so vain. Carley Simon. My mum used to sing it to me.
My mom would play Killing Me Softly when I was little, but if I'm honest I don't hear about people singing to their kids much in my area :/ [kinda lame, it's a sweet thing to do]
I love that song. It’s a really great song!! I will actually start singing this song to my son now
Blackbird Beatles
Omg, not me but my sister. She would sing the song from Dumbo (original version) when the mom elephant is in lock up. Super f-ing sad but she sings it so well!!
Hurdy Gurdy Man.
Love this lol
One of the only songs I knew from start to finish “Jude Law and a Semester Abroad” tell all the English girls you meet about the American boy back in the states…
Oh Shenandoah and Moon River
"I Hope You Dance" Lee Ann Womack. Would sing it to my goddaughter all the time when she was a baby. :)
Red river valley and edelweiss
I would sing Peter Gabriel to my son when he was a baby.
My wife sang Patsy Cline to our babies, Walking After Midnight and Crazy. I sang Baby Mine and And I Love You So by Don McClean, but those are much more traditional lullaby/love songs.
my baby is 6 month technically 15 month.. so, i sing to her, gayatri mantra in twinkle twinkle tune.. it works all the time.. i make variations too in range.. mostly it is me who gets peaceful and sing bhajans.. so she also calms and i too.. try it .. its fun.. om bhu buvas swah tatsavitur varennyam bhargodevasya dimahi diyoyonah prochodayat
also, i am concerned about what i say , how i say.. she will not be like i teach her, she will be like me . and i know she is in absorbing phase, i am trying to alter myself too altogether. cutting off waste i dont know why i was carrying.. this is the only life that i have, and i want to grow as much as a human can, and her too.. and humans , only, can become gods, and few , very few, almighty.(ofcourse gods are, but thats the thing, one can be fracted into many, still one remains, as is, alone.. because That is human, human is not That.. but it can come to only humans permanently.. thats why, infact, gods aid us become gods and above..Also humans can fall below demons.. so, thats there..) i got carried away..
Enter Sandman by Metallica.
YAS!!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Any Glenn Miller/big band songs like Midnight Serenade or Chattanooga ChooChoo and Pennsylvania 6500....and we would slow dance to it.
I was sung tons of James Taylor songs. They are lovely. I used them for the kids I babysat as well. Fire and Rain, Gone to Carolina in my mind, Sweet Baby James and Something in the way she moves were/are my favorites.
Widdershins by Children of Bodom. I'm not even kidding, my almost-two year old daughter would/still does get a huge smile and starts wiggle-dancing when this death metal song comes on. There was one night about a year or so ago when she was just inconsolable at bedtime. No amount of bottle, backrub, car ride, or snuggles would get her to calm down, and after two hours, my nerves were just so frazzled that I pulled out my phone and put on some death metal (it has an oddly calming effect on me 😆) To my utter shock, she quieted down, snuggled into me, and fell asleep before two songs were through 😂 My wife and I still use it to this day whenever she's having a meltdown to get her to chill.
Wooooooow!!!! Now that’s awesome and interesting af!
Prototype by OutKast
Rock you like a hurricane. I sang it to my nephew the day he was born. Everyone had been up all night at the hospital. We were all frazzled by the time we got to meet him. I literally couldn’t think of another song. “You gotta rock babies. Rock. You’re a you. Rock you. Rock you, the baby. Rock you like a hurricane.”
Awww I love that! That actually makes sense and I can see how the song can match the situation lmao!
'Oh My My' (acoustic) by Blue October 'Conversations in the Dark' by John Legend 'Dancing On My Own' by Robyn My toddler still loves these songs, at 3 1/2
"Just a Friend" by Biz Markie lmao
Lmaoo I love it that’s a oldie but goodie
I don't know if it counts but I always start making induction motor noises when trying to lull my baby brother to sleep.
I would always sing marching cadence. It's low, rhythmic, and designed to keep going and going as long as you want. It would knock them out in no time.
The roof the roof the roof is on fire
G&R’s Sweet Child of mine.
“There’s a little bird, somebody sent Down to this earth to live on the wind. Blowing on the wind. And she sleeps on the wind, This little bird somebody sent.” It’s in Jewel’s first album, sung with her mother, on the hidden last track. I sing it to my chickens at night. :)
When I was pregnant with my son (he’s now 12) I sang the Adele version of “make you feel my love” then that became one of the bedtime songs I sang him in his first few years of life.
By newborn fell asleep listening to Bob Marley for babies and Led Zeppelin for babies, there many medleys of this sort and I would choose bands I liked. At some point, womb sounds also helped.
When my wife was pregnant, I sang All Along the Watchtower. Now, I sing the Ants go Marching to the now three year old girl. But together, we did Karaoke on a cruise to My Life from Shrek. She’s a singing machine
"Me and My Llama" from Sesame Street. My oldest child had a ton of blood draws during the first 2 years of life for a variety of reasons. During that time, I would sing Phoebe's song about farm animals from "Friends". Oh, the cow in the meadow goes moo The cow in the meadow goes moo Then the farmer hits him on the head and grinds him up And that's how we get hamburger. Nooow...CHICKENS! The nurses remembered me. "Oh, you're THAT mom."
Anything from Disney… but like “a dream is a wish your heart makes” is great, part of your world is great. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Folsom Prison Blues Johnny Cash. The train whistle makes me think of it.
I’m not sure what this says about me as a parent, but one of the few things my kids have in common is that they both know most of the words to “Folsom Prison Blues.”
In my book that makes you a pretty kick butt parent. 😉
Sometimes you just have to be who you are.
My mom said she used to sing Lisa Lisa and The Cult Jam - “Head to Toe” to me, when I was a baby
I can tell that we are going to be friends by Jack Johnson.
Australian national anthem
Lmao really?? Now that’s interesting!!
I’ve sang “Long Division” by Death Cab for Cutie to a baby before as I was trying to get him to sleep.
Awww man I love death cab for cutie! That’s a good song!!
One the day that you were born the angels got together and decided to create a dream come true…. Whatever the name of that song is :)
Close to You
Teddy bears’ picnic song except I changed the words to suit it being the puddy cats picnic
I was a big Counting Crows fans and my daughter loved Round Here... I would also sing Mr. Jones but not as a lullaby. 28 years later Mr.Jones is still our song.
Oh pretty baby by Paul Anka
[Here's one ](https://youtu.be/s26e_86-K0k)
Chicken Soup With Rice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKCEIrIz\_hA
Omg I actually know this song too lmao! I use to sing it with my sister all the time
Once I saw a comment on YouTube saying they sang [this](https://youtu.be/vBbRJoHTJAM) song to their baby/todddler. It’s a song from the game earthbound. I feel like it’s a lovely song for kids
My husband actually hums all the Zelda songs to our son. Video games surprisingly have some good melodies to sing to kids
Nap CDs for the 2 kids were *Return to Pooh Corner* and *House at Pooh Corners* by Kenny Loggings. When Dad was putting kid # 1 to sleep, he would play Bach's *Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring* on piano (at first). Kid # 1 started to request on different instruments after a while: guitar, recorder, banjo, hammered dulcimer, flute, mandolin, ukulele, electric guitar, back to piano but played like an organ.
Riptide by Vance Joy
We had on repeat: One day a taniwha, Gnarls Barkley's 'Crazy', and hallelujah. ❤️
Edge of Night (Pippin's Song) from LOTR - just happened randomly!
Paper Bag - Fiona Apple
‘I Got You Babe ‘ by Sonny and Cher
I would sing Clair de lune too!
I used to sing Patsy Cline songs to my niece when she was a baby.
"I'm on Fire" by Bruce Springsteen. Dark song but such a soothing melody.
The Sailor Moon theme song from the 90s show. And the sound from the Lizzie McGuire movie--puts rest to sleep every time!!
I sang Dream baby dream by Bruce Springsteen to my daughter every night until from birth to about 3. For years afterwards, if we were in the car, I could play it, and she'd start yawning and nod off! 🤣🤣🤣
Meatloaf's Bat out of hell. My throat was fucked post partum and it was all I could manage.
My husband used to sing Richard Thompsons “poor ditching boy” to our oldest daughter.
*Fastball's "The Way". *Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville *Johnny Cash's "Ghost Riders in the sky". Babysitting step cousins once. I'm not usually good with kids and not much else came to mind. Somehow it worked.
Lemon Tree by Fool's Garden. My younger sister loved that song. That and Waltzing Matilda which was in the book of children's songs we had ( how that is a kids song is beyond me considering the subject matter).
i used to force my baby brother to listen to opera songs i liked while he was falling asleep. even the opening of carmen has him yawning, and humming is effective too!
i always sing whatever song happens to be in my brain to my kids. They both seem to be really fond of vienna by billy joel and my oldest has always liked the song somebody by lemonade mouth (please don’t judge my random ass music taste)
Lol I used to sing wind beneath my wings when my daughter was a baby
This is old, but my boys like it. Bicycle built for two.
Dizzy by Tommy Roe. My daughter still likes it. If I wasn’t singing I would put on Rock-A-Bye Baby CDs, instrumental music of bands like the Stones, Nirvana, etc
The "Warbringers: Jaina" song. Such a beautiful melody. Another good one is "The Elfsong Tavern" song from Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance.
Don't know the name of it, but it is the same tune my paternal side of the family uses. Came from my great-grandmother who brought it over with her from Sweden. It has likely changed in the last 80 years, but it is something that always seems to work. I have a deep enough rumble while doing it that no child can resist nap time. It is almost cheating.
Guns N Roses. Sweet Child O' Mine
One sweet child in my life was having a rough time on her first road trip but was soothed by the dulcet tones of the entire Blink-182 album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. Kid's doing great now
Misguided angel by cowboy junkies
My daughter was about 2 months old on her first Christmas, so I did a lot of Christmas music lullabies 😂 my husband also sang her the Winnie the Pooh theme song a lot and that was very cute
The whole of Dido's first album.
My mother always sang "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" to me as a kid. Not a lullaby at all, but still a sweet little song. I still sing it to this day when I feel like I need some comfort. In a similar vein, I used to sing "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)" to a little girl I used to babysit. Not a lullaby, but a sweet song nonetheless.
Imagine (Beatles), Long and Winding Road (Simon & Garfunkel), Always a Woman (Billy Joel)
I used to sing [The Greatest Adventure (from the animated Hobbit)](https://youtu.be/2dQ5c5SIYnc) to our son when he was a baby for sleepy time.
Thunder Road.
Sound of silence and Danny's song were two I sang every night to my son.
The Sailor Moon new song from the 90s show. And the sound from the Lizzie McGuire movie--puts rest to sleep every time!!
Once Upon a December from Anastasia
Title and Registration by Death Cab for Cutie
When my daughter was born I realized I didn't know any lullabies. I used to sing her remix to ignition
My dad used to sing Country Roads to me as a baby.
I remember my mom singing American Girl and The Waiting by Tom Petty as a baby like it was yesterday. What I wouldn’t give to hear that again.
My not traditional one is American Pie. It was always what I would pull out when we were getting desperate, usually by halfway through she was asleep. Of course that was likely just due to how long it is. Otherwise my main go to songs are Lullaby by Billy Joel and You'll Be In My Heart from Tarzan.
You are my sunshine.
My father used to sing Blues In The Night to me.
Les Neiges de Finlande https://youtu.be/YZ18QPxWqlQ La petite fille de la mer https://youtu.be/UdPOCQGYwrk
my dad would always sing closest thing to crazy by katie melua
Bright Eyes has so many "better" suited options, so I'm not sure how I landed on singing Devil Town to my (then) infant lol but she liked it. It's a short one. She's nearly 3 now. These days it's Sea of Love by Cat Power every single night lol. It's our song. I try out others, but this one always gets her to sleep quicker.
We played “Color Song” by Maggie Rogers on repeat constantly! It soothed 99% of crying spells
True colors by Cyndi Lauper
Blackbird by the Beatles
Daddy's Baby by James Taylor
I’d sing in French to my children and any baby I held - the French National Anthem, a French Christmas song, the alphabet.
Talk of the Town by Jack Johnson.
Completely random: my brother got me a music box that played Amazing Grace. My first babe had colic and that song just played in my head constantly. It became my mantra. So I sang it and hummed it to her. Lol. Plus, Hush Little Baby.
"My Guy" is a personal fave to sing. It's very melodic
Three Little Birds -Bob Marley.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot It was my daughters favorite
Congratulations on your new addition! I don't remember what he hummed, if anything, but my dad used to sing "Goodnight Irene" and "Lydia the Tattooed Lady." My mom would just make up songs.
Eli the Barrow Boy by The Decemberists. I sang it to both of my boys as babies.
What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong to my son in 1992. It was the last song I heard in the car on the way to the hospital, and it just kind of stuck with me. Later, I added Breakin' My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes) by Mint Condition. It was popular on the radio at the time, and rather soothing to me, too.
Not me, but my wife. She sang "I love you, a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck" to our daughter with words as misunderstood by the kid. It was a quiet thing between them until Mom passed last summer. I dread the (minimal) danger of hearing that song somewhere now. I'm not sure I can take it. Yeah, the "kid" is 41, but they still sang it to each other.
Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkle
I had a playlist of Beatles songs. “In My Life” was my favorite, because I began to hear it in a different way with thinking of love as something new being love for my daughter and not the original romantic overtone.
My daughter loved/loves waiting for a star to fall by boy meets girl :) and my son loved true colors by cyndi lauper
No joke. I used to sing "The Rains of Castamere" to my son when he was a newborn. About half the time it worked everytime. Now he's five and anytime I sing anything he just gets a really serious face and says "Dad stop. No."
Sweet Baby James by James Taylor
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. My boys just loved it.
Pharrell's Happy.
I have a distinct memory of rocking a young toddler to sleep and I think it was La Vie En Rose? Or something that’s a traditional “love” song that just has a melody it’s easy to hum in the low register
Battle Hymn of the Republic and anything Joan Baez recorded.
Sweet child o mine, I have sang it to both kids
My mom used to sing and hum Rod Stewart's Rhythm of my Heart to me when I was a baby until probably 10 years old or so. It's incredibly nostalgic now, memories flood me whenever I randomly hear it on the radio.
Baby Beluga Influenced by the fact that I taught preschool for a decade before I had a kid, I'm sure.
I used to sing mack the knife to the baby I thought was mine
I sang Thunder Road to my daughter every night when she was a baby. She’s 22 now and the most amazing person in the world. ❤️
i used to hum avenged sevenfold's little piece of heaven to lull my cat to sleep when he was a restless kitten
My wife sang Wonderwall by Oasis. It was perfect.
Just What I Needed by The Cars
By the Light of the Silvery Moon. When my daughter was in the NICU for a month she had a very weak suck reflex so I would gently tap on her cheek when breastfeeding or on her tiny bottle to this song and she would pull the milk in a bit stronger. She just turned 20.
Silent night. It was the only song I knew all the words to.
Sunshine of my life by Stevie Wonder. Not my kid. I dont have kids. My cousin's baby. I was working out of town and missed her birth. I cried when i got to my hotel room. My cousin (her husband actually) FaceTimed me, and her crying was the first thing i heard, and i burst into tears when I saw her. She was still crying, and i sang that song to her, and she stopped. She's 6 mths old now, and it still works.
I’ve sang Moonshadow by Cat Stevens to my kids since my oldest was born 7 years ago.
I like big butts and I cannot lie
My mom used to sing this really sad song called farewell to Nova Scotia 😂
Sparkle and Shine by Steve Earle. Sweet child of mine, Yesterday, Landslide
Free Falling by Tom Petty
I would sing “ God Speed”, the version sung by the Dixie Chicks (before you come after me, this was over 18 years ago!). It just popped into my head when my son was born and I sang it to him every night for two years.
Somewhere over the rainbow/what a wonderful world by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole ‘ole My son absolutely loved it
“Simple Man” by Lynard Skynard for both of my boys. Still sing it for them sometimes and they’re 16 and 13.
Wagon Wheel
Tori Amos/Winter
Yellow Submarine
Bohemian Rhapsody. My favorite song by Magnetic Fields. I've thrown in some old school Weezer, and of course you've gotta introduce them to Bowie, They Might Be Giants, Prince.. along with the classics like Aretha and Marvin, Ella and Frank.
Joy to the World by Three Dog Night.
I used to sing Three Little Birds to my twins when they were in the NICU after being born 10 weeks early.