![]() Behind a mango tree, Julie shown it to me. My name is Hakuna Matata, I earn six dollars a day, I went Julie's to feel her boobies and that's what we did all day. A couple that are still stuck in my head to this day: Music is powerful and emotional and I’m so glad I have these songs to share with my daughter.These were the height of hilarity when I was a lad. I find I can hardly sing these last two songs without tearing up because they are so special to me. Finally, for her second birthday I wrote her a song of her own and I love to sing that to her. My Dad wrote a song for me before I was born, and I was delighted to find that it fits for my daughter as well so I love to sing that to her. My mom always sang Brahms lullaby to me growing up and I also love singing that to my daughter. ![]() Jesus Loves Me and Jesus Loves the Little Children are often sung, as well as regular ABC’s, or the Super Why version of ABC’s. Star Wars, stinky smells, and other funny ones have also made their way into the rotation. We do the names of people in our family instead of just the letter names, and then we do a theme each night, like big words (where we do the biggest words we can think of), or things around the house. We also often sing our variation of this song. The words are really simple and the tunes are somethng I’m sure I’ve heard before but I can’t remember where. Very sweet and awesome, except he’d sometimes have to work nights for weeks at a time, and nothing I could do would satisfy her at all in his absence.Įvery night we sing my daughter two little songs that I made up when she was a baby. My daughter went through a phase when she was 2 where she would only go to sleep happily if my husband played the guitar for her. My kids (4 and almost 2) seem to go with phases with lullabies–sometimes they want or even demand them, other times they aren’t interested. Our most common traditional lullabies are All the Pretty Horses, Hush Little Baby (the mockingbird song), and Lullaby and Goodnight (Brahms’s Lullaby). So, some of our first go-to lullabies were Danny’s Song and House at Pooh Corner by Kenny Loggins, Iowa by Dar Williams, and Blackbird and Hey Jude by the Beatles. I have a few less traditional ones, since my main criteria for picking lullabies when my kids were really little was finding a soft and slow, pretty song that could pass as a lullaby, and that I already knew most of the words to (I did not learn or remember a lot of lullabies from when I was a kid, so, faced with a baby who needed immediate soothing, I defaulted to what I knew). I’d love to hear: Does your family have a preferred lullaby? And if you’ve stopped singing, what age were your kids? The thoughts made me a feel tender-hearted as I wondered how many nights of lullaby singing were in my future. I don’t remember making a conscious decision about it, or acknowledging this was one of the last times I’d be singing a lullaby to Oscar or Olive or Mimi or Ralph. I was thinking about it, and I can’t figure out when we stopped singing to the older kids. Repeated until eyes are droopy… If we need backup lullabies, we pull from our favorite church songs, usually this one. I’m not brave enough to sing you the tune we use, but the lyrics we prefer are: The lullaby we sing is called Tender Shepherd. ![]() It’s so familiar to us it’s practically tattooed on our souls. And of course, we decided we like our version best of all. Both the tune and words I inherited are different than the ones I could hear in online samples. What I found was predictable but interesting. I realized I’d sung the song thousands of times but I’d never thought to look up the source. ![]() The lullaby we use is one that was sung to me by my own mother, and as I was going through the melody last night, I wondered if there were other parents around the world singing the same song. Each of our children was sung to nightly for years and years, but the ritual has faded for all but the youngest two. Last night, as Ben Blair and I were going from bedroom to bedroom, turning off lights and tucking in kids, it occurred to me that the only room where we still sing a lullaby is June & Betty’s.
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