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Reason #40 – I sing my boy to sleep to Stone Temple Pilots
Reason #40 – I sing my boy to sleep to Stone Temple Pilots
Jul 17The way I see it, if it rhymes the words “house” and “mouse” it must be a children’s song, right?
C has a pretty serious lack of a sleeping routine, but often I sing to him to help him settle down. Maybe he just wills himself to fall asleep so he won’t hear my singing anymore. I wouldn’t blame him. At any rate, singing seems to work most of the time, and whisky does it in the few occasions when it doesn’t.
I don’t know any lullabies, nor am I really willing to learn songs about sheep or twinkling stars. Life is too short. So I usually sing soothing songs to him, the ones I play when I need to wind down. Bon Iver, Iron and Wine, Sun Kil Moon. Glorified elevator music.*
Eventually I ran out of boring relaxing songs, so I started revisiting old favourites, until one night I found myself cuddling a warm and sleepy baby while gently cooing: “Forward yesterday, makes me wanna stay…”
Whaddaya mean “Everybody run, Bobby’s got a gun” is not age-appropriate? It could be a Nerf gun!
I’ll see if I can get away with Rage Against the Machine tonight.
It’s all in the delivery.
* I lie!! I worship the ground Justin Vernon treads on!
I sang my son celtic songs about the Highland Clearances LOL!
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ofthesea Reply:
October 14th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
And NOW I must go look that up on YouTube!
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Carrie and the Bear Reply:
October 14th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
Well, let me save you some trouble with some links to the 2 I sang most often:
Hush, Hush http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4gJuNyapQE
Caledonia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eW-ZDKNSqM
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Carrie and the Bear Reply:
October 14th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
Forgot to add that they are soft and lullabye tempo-ed but rather sad.
ofthesea Reply:
October 15th, 2010 at 6:13 am
But those are LOVELY songs! You’re doing a great job!
Little Sophie loves a bit of Rage Against the Machine now and again to drift off to la-la land, as well as a bit of the Dust Brothers and Tool. Her tastes are quite varied, however, and I have seen her fall asleep to They Might Be Giants, Stray Cats, Phillip Glass and Tibetan throat music.
Perhaps she’s just narcoleptic.
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ofthesea Reply:
August 13th, 2010 at 11:29 am
Anyone is a narcoleptic if they have to listen to glass.
Throat singing is way cool. Shame I can only attempt it when I have a bad bad cold.
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Nigel Reply:
August 13th, 2010 at 11:32 am
I am apparently not Buddhist enough to be able to pull of the throat singing.
Yet another thing in life at which I fail. I am the king!
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ofthesea Reply:
August 13th, 2010 at 11:39 am
Isn’t it just like singing through a lodged loogie?
Oooh, one more skill to teach my boy.
Who already sings about loogies, because I taught him to.
hahaha! I remember the day I caught myself singing Jesus Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam to my son. It was a weird moment- I feel ya;)
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Hi! I so know what you mean … I think if I sing 'You are my Sunshine' one more time, my son is going to throw himself on the floor and play dead! My cousin recommended these … have you seen them?
http://www.rockabyebabymusic.com/ecom2/index.ph…
I've purchased the U2 album…waiting for it. If anything, these have me intrigued …
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I used to sing the baby to sleep by singing the old jingle from coke: “I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony. I'd like to buy, the world a coke, and keep it company. That's the song I sing..” and so on. Worked like a charm.
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