What is your favorite song to sing with your child?

After rocking and singing a lot this evening I have come to realize I need more songs. Please post yours!!!

Re: What is your favorite song to sing with your child?

Hush Little Baby

I sing 2 versions.

Hush, little baby, don't say a word
Mama's gonna buy you a mocking bird
If that mocking bird don't sing
Mama's gonna buy you a diamond ring
If that diamond ring turns brass,
Mama's gonna buy you a looking glass
If that looking glass gets broke
Mama's gonna buy you a billy goat
If that billy goat won't pull,
Mama's gonna buy you a cart and bull
If that cart and bull turn over,
Mama's gonna buy you a dog named rover
If that dog named rover don't bark,
Mama's gonna buy a horse and cart
If that horse and cart fall down,
You'll still be the sweetest baby in town

or...

Hush little baby; mama's near,
To brush your hair and calm your fears.
To kiss your cheek and hold your hand,
'Til you drift off to sleepyland.
To help you count those little white sheeps,
And sing you songs 'til you're asleep.
To tell you tales of kings and queens,
of Jack and Jill and wonderful things.
So snuggle up and hold me tight,
And dream sweet dreams all through the night.
And every night when the sun goes down,
You'll still be the sweetest little baby in town

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I never heard the second version. I love it!!! Thank you so much for sharing that!

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One more favorite...

Whole Heap A Little Horses


Go to sleep, go to sleep
Go to sleepy little baby
When you wake, have some cake
And ride them pretty little horses

Black and a bay, sorrel and a gray
A whole heap a little horses
Black and a bay, sorrel and a gray
A whole heap a little horses

Little ole horse, little ole cow
Amblin' around on the old hay mow
Little ole horse, he took a chew
Darned if I don't, said the ole cow too

(Repeat verses 1 & 2)


You can hear a beautiful version of it...

Youtube

Re: What is your favorite song to sing with your child?

Awww I love that 2nd version of Hush little baby....my DD loves it (the 1st version) whenever I start to sing it, she gets a big smile on her face.

I also sing the alphabet song really slow; Rockabye Baby, & a made-up song w/ her name

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We sing lots of songs all the time, some I never heard before I moved here and they are very regional

Wind the Bobbin up (this is a song that children working in the Cotton Mills in the North West of England sang when Cotton was King in Manchester in Victorian times. Kids as young as 5 went to work winding up bobbins and generally helping in the mills. Very sad.) It goes: Wind the bobbin up, wind the bobbin up, pull pull clap clap clap. Point to the ceiling, point to the floor, point to the window, point to the door. Put you hands together 1,2,3, put your hands upon your knee.

We also sing:
Sleeping Bunnies
Row Row Row your boat (with UK Lyrics)
Twinkle Twinkle
Incy Wincy Spider (UK version)
Bouncing up and down on a tractor bringing in the hay
Jelly on a plate
And TONS more. We are singing machines!

Re: What is your favorite song to sing with your child?

baby got back does that count?

Re: What is your favorite song to sing with your child?

Posted by DanaRenee

baby got back does that count?

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"Doe a deer"
"This Land is your land"
"If you're happy and you know it"

(no idea if those are the official names )

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umm... i sing him lots of sinatra his favorites are "you make me feel so young" and "young at heart".

we also like the hokey pokey and my own version of zippadee doo-da that is about yucky diapers

ETA: DH sings him classic rock songs. yesterday it was "barracuda"

Message edited 12/29/2007 9:21:38 AM.

Re: What is your favorite song to sing with your child?

Since DS was a baby we sang the theme song from Growing Pains. DS loves it

Re: What is your favorite song to sing with your child?

at baby got back. Emily loves when we sing "shake your groove thing" she's all about the bootay.

but seriously....
we sing SOOOOO many songs.

she loves to sing disney princess songs, like once upon a dream, the cinderella song from the openeing credits of the movie, part of that world, etc.

we also sing tons of christmas songs, and she sings them on her own.

i guess i'm a bad one to answer. we have over 200 children's songs on my ipod so we are never short for a song and it's always changing.

also she goes to music class and we sing a lot of songs from that.

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I love this version you just put.. i gotta remember it.

Hush little baby; mama's near,
To brush your hair and calm your fears.
To kiss your cheek and hold your hand,
'Til you drift off to sleepyland.
To help you count those little white sheeps,
And sing you songs 'til you're asleep.
To tell you tales of kings and queens,
of Jack and Jill and wonderful things.
So snuggle up and hold me tight,
And dream sweet dreams all through the night.
And every night when the sun goes down,
You'll still be the sweetest little baby in town

Re: What is your favorite song to sing with your child?

The National Anthem, Hush little baby, and Taylors song (which we made up)