Songs to sing to baby

We have a nine-month old baby girl. I love singing to her as I rock her to sleep at night. I've been expanding my repertoire and am looking for more good songs to sing to her. I didn't see a thread about this so I thought I'd start one.

My go-tos have been:

R.E.M., "Electrolite" and "You Are the Everything"
Bowie, "Kooks" and "Life on Mars?"
Prince, "Starfish and Coffee"
Beatles, "Yellow Submarine"

What have you sung to your babies?

 

Baby Please Don't Go

 

The Beatles - "Cry Baby cry" perhaps?

 

I do a medley of "Row Your Boat" and "The Addams Family" theme.

I change the lyrics of "Rock-a-bye Baby" to "but we'll save baby, and she won't fall".

My aunt used to sing us "Jamaica Farewell".

 

Slayer - "Altar Of Sacrifice"

 

Yellow Submarine
My mother used to sing that to me when I was a baby.

 

Really you could sing any lyrics to a baby. Just as long as the melody is lullaby-like, then the baby won't know or care about the meaning of the words. For example, you could try singing Lennon's "Cold Turkey" as a slow, lilting tune: "temperatures rising, fever is high, can't see no future, can't see no sky ", etc. It never failed to put my little ones asleep for their naps...

 

'Shut Up' - Madness

 

All La Glory
Saint Judy's Comet (with slight lyric changes)

 

My wife sings American Pie and Slip Sliding Away to our baby.

 

Mary Had a Little Lamb - but only the original version by Paul McCartney.

 

If you can carry the melody (I know I can't): Baby You're a Rich Man

(skip the Rich Fat Jew bit)

 

The two songs that I sang all three of my kids to sleep with were;
Beautiful Boy (or Girl as the case may be) by John Lennon
and
Goodnight by the Beatles.

 

At the Zoo
Here Comes the Sun
Don't Worry Baby
Three Little Birds
Your Song
No One's Gonna Love You - Band of Horses

 

Sang You Are My Sunshine to my boys. They remember it to this day so I'm glad I did.

 

The Monkees - "Pillow Time"

 

"Story of Isaac" by Leonard Cohen.

 

James Taylor- Sweet Baby James (sung to my great-nephew, James)

 

Never had any kids to lullaby with Richard Thompson's "End of the Rainbow", sadly.

 

I sang almost all of the CCR-Mardi Gras album to my daughter last night.

 

I always sang Ripple and American Pie to my girls when putting them to sleep. Great melodies and lyrics. Ripple is beautiful and profound.

 

I sang a lot of British Invasion and Jesus & Mary Chain songs to my daughter when she was an infant--simple melodies, easy lyrics to remember.

Also, and this is silly, being a huge music fan I've always wondered, all my life, what the first song I would ever sing to my child would be...well, when she was just a few days old in one of those middle-of-the-night crying jags, I found the words coming unbidden out of my exhausted mouth: "Right about now/the funk soul brother/it's about now/the funk soul brother." So, yes, The Rockafeller Skank was the first song I ever sang to my child.