Lullabies

Warrigal

Warrigal

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Sydney, Australia
Do you remember singing your children to sleep with a lullaby?

I had two favourites. One was something we learnt in French class titled Fais dodo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB-RUwDaz20

The other was the Sky Boat Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1CTxa-FuKc

I didn't know either one in its entirety but that didn't matter I just kept repeating what I knew until the baby was asleep.

What are your favourite lullabies ?
 

Never sang, but I made their stuffed animals "talk." Stole the idea from Sesame Street...
 
I sang all the babies in my life to sleep. My singing would turn milk sour, but they didn't seem to care. Even when my granddaughter was in high school and would spend the weekend or go on vacation with me, she'd want "baby songs" and a backrub at bedtime. I'd sing the old bluegrass songs, some Peter Paul and Mary, and the usual bedtime songs.

When I was taking care of my new great-granddaughter for three weeks this spring, I'd sing when we were rocking. I told my granddaughter to sing to her and she protested that she couldn't sing. I said that it doesn't matter to the babies, they just want to hear your voice.
 
Rock-a-bye Baby in the treetop...
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock...
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall...'
Down will come Baby, cradle and all!

Would sing this to the kids in an attempt to put them to sleep. Just glad the local social services department didn't catch me. Sheesh! That was actually singing about endangering the health and welfare of a child!!!! :>)
 
My mother used to sing me a song called Poor Babes in the Woods, which I loved. When I was really old enough to understood the words, it was about two babes who were "stolen away" and left in the woods, where they died, and robins brought stawberry leaves and covered their bodies.

Scary song -- but funny, I still love it and find it strangely comforting. Weird.
 
I'm another in the woeful singing camp. When I was a baby and my mother was singing to me my grandfather recommended that if she wanted me to learn to sing she had better buy a gramophone. However my lack of musicality was not noticed by my babies.
 
For my second daughter, I made up a lullaby using the tune of Brahms' lullaby but with my own words, all about how I loved her curly red hair, her chubby cheeks, her big smile, etc. She loved it and always said, "More!" at the end.
 
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