My daughter's first song request was "Whale Make Strike" which was readily recognizable as "The Greenland Whale Fisheries," but my son's request for what I learned as a kid as a Russian Lullaby baffled my mother who was planning to sing him to sleep one night. The song goes, in English,
"Bed is too small for my tiredness;
Give me a hilltop with trees.
Tuck a cloud up under my chin.
Lord, blow the moon out, please.
Rock me to sleep in a cradle of green,
Sing me a lullaby, leaves.
Tuck a cloud up under my chin.
Lord, blow the moon out, please."
(And by the way if anyone knows any more about it, I would like to hear; it is in a minor key, unusual for a lullaby.) My three year old son asked his grandmother to sing, "I want to lie down in a flower bed."