What songs did you sing to your children...

Seeker

Seeker

Redneck Hillbilly
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Mine was One Tin Soldier...Sang it to my babies and grand babies.

My husband sang Down in the Valley.

It comes to mind because .. my Grandson just came for a visit.

He's a big ol' boy now and we were reminiscing about it.
 

Gary O' said:
Sing?
Bedtime?

Didn't
Can't

I droned the usual stories until they slumped into a coma
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Surely you have written some songs.. I refuse to believe you can't sing..
 

Puttin On The Ritz
Sunny Side of the Street
Chicago
The Shadow of Your Smile

Many others. When Daddy is the leader and lead singer of the most popular private party band in your town, you can expect to get tunes sung to you that are a wee bit different from what your friends hear, at bedtime.
 
Lochkelly said:
We had a Disney cassette of covers & I used to sing "Isn't She Lovely" (Stevie Wonder) to them as I rocked them to sleep. Sure wish I knew what happened to that cassette, for old times sake!
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Lord, if we sang The Wheels on the Bus once, we must have sung it a million times. It was the only way to stop their crying on car trips!
 
Down In The Valley. And walked the floor during three months of Colic. And when that didn't work often got in the car and drove. All that occurred out in west Texas in the oil patch country west of San Angelo around Crane, Rankin, McCamey, and Ft Stockton, and up north to Odessa and Midland.
 
A lot of folk songs and nursery rhyme songs.

I sang to my daughter and I really sang to my granddaughter. Even when she was in high school and would spend the night at our house, she'd ask me to sit on the side of the bed and sing "baby songs", as she called them.

I sang to my great-granddaughter (3 years old) in July every night I was there. One night I started to sing a lively song and she said, "No, Meemaw, sing me a soft song!" I asked what "soft song" she wanted and she said, "the shoo-roo song". I realized that she wanted Peter, Paul & Mary's version of "Gone the Rainbow" that has "shule, shule, shule-a-roo" in the chorus. I couldn't believe that she had remembered that from one singing. Incidentally, that was her mother's favorite lullaby.

I sang to the new baby, too, but she didn't have any requests.

I told my granddaughter that she needs to sing to those babies and she said, "Oh, I can't sing!" I told her that it doesn't matter; they don't care how well you can sing...….babies just like to be sung to. Babies NEED to be sung to.
 
- Baby face, you've got the cutest little baby face

- You are my sunshine my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are gray

- 'Two' foot 'two', eyes of blue, oopy doopy doopy doo, has anybody seen my gal (I had 3 daughters with blue eyes)

- Stars shining bright above you, night breezes seem to whisper I love you, birds singing in the sycamore trees. Dream a little dream of me. Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you. Sweet dreams that leave your worries behind you. But in your dreams whatever they be, dream a little dream of me

- Would you like to swing on a star, carry moonbeams home in a jar

- Grab your coat and get your hat, leave your worries on the doorstep, life can be so sweet on the sunny side of the street.

- And Sunday School songs

- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
 
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jujube said:
SNIP! I asked what "soft song" she wanted and she said, "the shoo-roo song". I realized that she wanted Peter, Paul & Mary's version of "Gone the Rainbow" that has "shule, shule, shule-a-roo" in the chorus. I couldn't believe that she had remembered that from one singing. Incidentally, that was her mother's favorite lullaby.
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Shule a rack shack,
Shule a bubbuh coo.
When I saw my Sally Bally Beal,
Come bibble in the bush, I lorry.

At least that's how I remember it, some sixty years later. I guess it's a catchy tune, with catchy lyrics.
 
One of the things that I most enjoyed when I was little was my parents singing together. We would drive down the road and they would sing the old, old songs that they knew so well. My dad used to sing a sad song about a little homeless boy, and mom sang Red Wing, about an Indian maid who lost her warrior brave.
Together they sang songs like Keep the Home fires Burning, and Old Black Joe, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, and many other beautiful songs of that era.
Some of those songs, I sang to my kids, plus songs that I had learned and loved as a teenager. We usually all sang together when we traveled somewhere, so it was part of any trip.
Often, (since we lived in the country) , we would build a bonfire, roast hot dogs and marshmallows, and all sit around the campfire and sing songs until way past bedtime.
We sang songs by Harry Belefonte, Jim Reeves, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and many of the other songs popular in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s.
I think the one that was Robin’s favorite that I loved singing to her was Turn Around, an old Belefonte song about a little girl growing up.
She also liked Kristofferson’s song, Jody and the Kid, and I remember that she was totally shocked when she learned that Engelbert Humperdink was actually someone real.
She was sure that it was just another name that her mother had made up !
 
As I previously stated, I blessed my kids with not singing to them

But, Gramma....she sang to us, and all our kids

standard stuff...twinkle twinkle, itsy bitsy spider, others
It wasn't the words so much, but her voice
High pitched soft whine that grated and soothed at the same time
Maybe it wasn't her voce so much,
but the combination being snuggled in those hugh downy soft pillowy upper arms
....and her pitch, reaching past the attic, almost outa human ear shot

It was..... incredible

The squirmiest of toddlers would settle in...crash...burn


aaaaand, she was on call
 
Gary O' said:
Written, yes

Sing?
You'd thank me if you knew but didn't hear, ever

I did talk a song for a new member's creation here, for grins


See?


I'll stick to wood and word butchering
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No there's definitely a singing voice in there... I like it.
 
Gary O' said:
But, Gramma....she sang to us, and all our kids
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Yea, my granny sang to us kids too. Me, my brother, sister and 3 cousins.
We lived right next door to her, and the 3 cousins lived with her, most of the time.

Only time I heard my momma sing was in church , and well ...lets just say it's probably best she never sang to us.;)
 
Lol pecos...😂
what era are we talking about.....sing to my boys ?!!,....
I never got the time for that....i was to busy arguing with their father 😂😂😂
 

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