Boab - I used to use "Dream Angus" as a lullaby for my children. When I recently reminded the youngest - now 15 - she had a severe outbreak of sentimentality! Herring's head was also a favourite, along with "Bonnie Lass of Fyvie"

For 3-5 year olds, I have found "The Mouse's Song" goes down well, as do most accumulative songs

Away she lep' and away she ran/ Unto the cow and there she come/Cow give me milk, I'll give cat milk/Cat'll give me my old tail again!

(spoken) Indeed I will not said the cow, unless you go to the stack and get me some hay

(sung) Away she lep ...

stack says go to the barn and get me some sticks and so on

ends with:

Away she lep' and away she ran/ Unto the crow and there she come,

Crow give me a feather, I'll give sea a feather

Sea'll give me coals I'll give smith coals

Smith'll give me a lock I'll give barn a lock,

Barn'll give me sticks, I'll give stack sticks,

Stack'll give me hay I'll give cow hay

Cow'll give me milk I'll give cat milk

Cat'll give me my old tail again