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Lullabies - 12/8/2009 6:19:21 PM   
Arpig


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Status: offline 		Recently my ex, my daughter and I had a conversation about the lullabies I used to sing to her. I told her there are 3 rules of lullabies
1» It must be able to be sung in a slow. almost droning fashion (lucky for me, since I can't sing any other way)
2» It must be a song you know really well, because you will be singing it under the worst possible circumstances (half-asleep, sicker than hell...whatever)
3» It must be a song you really like, because you will sing it thousands of times under circumstances that are the worst imaginable.
This led to me making a playlist of those songs I remember having sung as lullabies for her. After making the list and looking over the songs, its no wonder she turned out so cool.
Just out of interest, what songs did you sing to your UMs as lullabies, here's the list of the ones I sang to Bear (my daughter's nickname):
B.B. Gabor: Moscow Drug Club
Billy Bragg: Chile, Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto/My Youngest Son Came Home Today/Think Again
Boomtown Rats: I Don't Like Mondays
Brian Eno: I'll Come Running/Julie With… Put a Straw Under Baby/ The Fat Lady of Limburg
Bruce Cockburn: If I Had a Rocket Launcher
The Clash: Jimmy Jazz
Cowboy Junkies: Sweet Jane
Crash Test Dummies: Androgynous/ Superman Song
David Bowie: Space Oddity
Grateful Dead: Been All Around This World/ Dark Hollow/Morning Dew/ Peggy-O/Ripple/To Lay Me Down
Janice Joplin: Buy Me a Mercedes Benz
Jennifer Warnes: Joan of Arc
Jesus Christ Superstar: Pilate's Dream
Jethro Tull: One White Duck/0^10 = Nothing at All/Velvet Green/Weathercock
John Lennon: Working Class Hero
John Prine: Sam Stone
June Tabor: Finisterre/Mayn Rue Plats/No Man's Land/Flowers of the Forest
King Crimson: I Talk to the Wind
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire/Chelsea Hotel/Field Commander Cohen/Memories/Sisters of Mercy/Suzanne/Take This Waltz/Who By Fire/Why Don't You Try
Marianne Faithful: Sister Morphine (Has verses not in the Rolling Stones version)/The Ballad of Lucy Jordan
Moody Blues: Timothy Leary
Nazareth: Love Hurts
Neil Young: The Needle and the Damage Done
Noir Desir: The Partisan
Pink Floyd: Goodbye Blue Sky/Grantchester Meadows/If/Pigs on the Wing (all parts sung as one song)/Southampton Docks/Us and Them/Wish You Were Here/Your Possible Pasts
The Pogues: A Pair of Brown Eyes/And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda/I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day/Kitty/Rainy Night in Soho/Summer In Siam/The Auld Triangle
Rocky Horror Picture Show: I'm Going Home
Rolling Stones: Lady Jane/Love In Vain/Sweet Virginia/Wild Horses/You Got The Silver
Roxy Music: In Every Dreamhome a Heartache
Simon & Garfunkel: Richard Cory
Steeleye Span: All Things Are Quite Silent/Fighting for Strangers/Lowlands of Holland/The Drunkard/The Wife of the Soldier
Sting: Russians
Traffic: John Barleycorn Must Die
Tubes: Don't Touch Me There
U2: Van Dieman's Land
Ultravox: Hiroshima Mon Amour/I Want to Be a Machine
Waterboys: Fisherman's Blues

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RE: Lullabies - 12/8/2009 6:30:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		I don't have any chiluns. So I have never sung anyone to sleep. But I have had two different women, from two different generations, sing me to sleep.

My Grandma sang these:

Would You like to Swing on a Star
(I love you) A Bushel and a Peck
When Irish Eyes are Smiling
Toora Loora Loora (Irish Lullaby)
How Ireland Got Its Name


My Mom sang these: (I suspect they were the only songs she knew all the words to)

Folsom Prison Blues (what ??? yeah I know)
Orange Blossom Special
Walking After Midnight
Seven Bridges Row

I have NO idea how I turned out so cool ;-)

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RE: Lullabies - 12/8/2009 6:59:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hi, Arpig,

This one was what came to mind first, though i'm sure there's others... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jThVvhykH4



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RE: Lullabies - 12/8/2009 7:18:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		My daughter was actually kind of proud that not a single "normal" lullaby apeared on the list...come to think of it so am I. My sons never liked my singing (they apparently have taste) so I didn't sing to them, that was the ex's job...no idea what she sang though

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RE: Lullabies - 12/8/2009 9:19:19 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Hierodule

(I love you) A Bushel and a Peck



My mother sang that to me and I sing it to my youngest daughter.

I've been singing Fly Me to the Moon to my oldest since she was born.

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RE: Lullabies - 12/8/2009 9:32:48 PM   
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you are so beautiful (joe cocker)

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RE: Lullabies - 12/9/2009 3:01:20 PM   
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RE: Lullabies - 12/9/2009 5:03:47 PM   
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"Hush Little Baby"


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RE: Lullabies - 12/9/2009 8:30:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		Looks like I'm the only one who sang really off-the-wall stuff...

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