What was your lullaby song?

I used to sing "Golden slumbers" to my children and grandchildren.

My mother used to sing “Go to sleep my baby”. Happy days

My mother would sing Brahms Lullaby to us, and I sang it to my children. Whenever I hear it, it finishes me!

It was also my MIL's song for her children, and it was played and sung at her funeral.

Lula lula bye bye. No idea if that’s how to spell it!

My Mum sang it to me, I sang it to my boys and then to my Granddaughter

Too Ra Loo Ra Loora that's an Irish lullaby.

Just had a Google… it’s lula Lula Lula Lula bye bye apparently!

Gawd! My mum used to sing something that went "Bye baby bunting, daddy's gone a-hunting.........." and was, basically, a promotion of bloodsports because the rabbit got caught and skinned to provide a coat for Baby Bunting.

Pretty revolting.

You are my sunshine

Three wheels on my wagon.......

Frère Jacques to both our grandchildren. No high notes for me to reach!

Rock a bye baby. That was a bit gruesome too windmill!

Morningtown Ride

My mother sang something Welsh, like Calon Lan (??) to me. I know it off by heart.

Coulters candy, to children and grand weans

Daddima

Just listening to Rob Bryden telling that his mother’s lullaby song was ‘ Once upon a time there were three Jews’!
I remember the Bodach singing the Boys’ Brigade hymn to ours, and my personal favourite was Panis Angelicus!
These were the ‘go to sleep’ choices, not the everyday singalongs.

“ the Boys’ Brigade hymn” . Do you mean “We have an anchor.”That’s quite rousing for bedtime.

I used to sing " Go to sleep my baby " to my children and G/C

For some reason DD had to have "Dark brown is the river, golden is the sand."
But I can't find it sung with "our" tune on YouTube.

Ali Bali bee/Coulters Candy

windmill1

Gawd! My mum used to sing something that went "Bye baby bunting, daddy's gone a-hunting.........." and was, basically, a promotion of bloodsports because the rabbit got caught and skinned to provide a coat for Baby Bunting.

Pretty revolting.

Oh yes I remember that one!

“Gone to fetch a rabbit skin to wrap my baby bunting in”!

sunnygirl

Ali Bali bee/Coulters Candy

Me too! Still sing it to the grandsons.

High in the pine tree is the one I sang to my children

Indeed, windmill and Grannybags, we skirt over that hunting rhyme when we visit the wonderful children's book Each Peach Pear Plum.
My slumber song is " Dream a little dream of me".
My eldest GC was astonished to hear someone else singing it on the radio.

A lula lula lula bye bye and Mummy's little baby loves shortening bread and my father used to sing Its a long way to Tipperary which was a bit too lively for a lullaby!

Oh yes - and My Bonnie lies over the ocean, my bonny lies over the sea........