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Thread #21812 Message #234662
Posted By: Mark Cohen
27-May-00 - 12:14 AM
Thread Name: What lullabies do your children hear?
Subject: RE: BS: What lullabies do your children hear?
Shayna always loved "Feed the Birds" from Mary Poppins, and one that Tom Rush recorded whose title and author I've forgotten--I like it because it's one of the few Daddy lullabies. It's also appropriate for Hilo where it rains nearly every night!
Outside your window Rain is pouring down You know by tomorrow morning Won't be no rain around
Hushabye, my baby Hushabye, my darlin' child You can tell, you know darn well Your daddy wouldn't lie to you
She also likes the one I sang to her when I was holding her right after she was born--
Go to sleep you little baby Let the time go slowly by Listen to your daddy singing Singing Shayna's lullaby
Now we live beside the ocean Watching rainbows in the sky Hear the birds up in the palm trees Singing Shayna's lullaby
For my stepson Ben when he was younger, any song would do, as long as you could sing it for the hour or two it took him to fall asleep! :-)