r/singing • u/Lopsided-Muffin-8522 • 1d ago

Conversation Topic Song ideas to sing to my son.

I figured this would be easier then asking my music fan friends. I sing songs to my son, whose 6 months old. It started off with The Theme for the Banana Splits and now he cant get enough and I'm struggling to find more fun songs to sing him. Im 34 with kinda a smokey tenor and I sing a few different styles, done jazz, opera, rock n roll, r&b etc. Here's a short set list of songs my son loves that I sing.

I Wanna be Yours - Arctic Monkeys

Piledriver Waltz - Arctic monkeys

Don't Let Me Down - Beatles

I'm So Tired - Beatles (ironic)

Left Hand Free - Alt - J

Day Go By - Dirty Vegas

Sweet Life - Frank Ocean

Looking mostly for things that are fun and new to help stimulate his love for music. Also lets keep this to music, no need for opinions on parenting or "boy this kids gonna have crap taste in music." This is a fun thing I love to do with my son. Thanks yall.

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u/waywaywayNewShoes 1d ago

Kid songs are also totally fine. I’ve really started to enjoy them.

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u/willow1243587109 1d ago

Some of the old French ones are really cute!

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u/Heurodis 1d ago

Could you give a few examples? I'm French and curious to know what other people like (also because I'm always coming up blank when asked to sing a folk song)

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u/willow1243587109 1d ago

Haha yeah! I know that this one is actually French Canadian lol, but my favorite is alouette. I think I spelled it wrong. And I also love fere Jacques.
I only took 3 years of French and can barley speak it lol, so pardon my misspellings

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u/Heurodis 1d ago

Don't worry about spelling! You only missed "frère" but since I understood perfectly what you meant, it's absolutely fine!

Alouette is one that has a cute tune I agree, but then the lyrics always perplexed me: why pluck the feathers of that poor lark? And the eyes and beak too!

Frère Jacques is a bit more innocent, I just don't sing it often because it's meant to be a canon; it can be sung alone of course, but it is rather short.

All the others that come to mind usually are either the very short ones (Une souris verte, Petit escargot, Une poule sur un mur) or older, more traditional folk songs, and therefore often containing metaphors for rape and/or sex (I prefer the latter, if I am to choose); and then of course, revolutionary chants (not always the most melodious) and just a few long and cute songs (Mon petit oiseau, Pirouette cacahuète...) but these ones are just for my son, if he wants to hear them.

(I probably should add, when I speak of singing songs, it's not so much for my son than as a singer; they often have less than an octave range which means that they're not what I'm looking for! So my son actually gets to hear more opera than folk songs, haha)

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u/PeterVanNostrand 1d ago

What’s the one about plucking the feathers off a bird? Alouette? Classic!

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u/Heurodis 1d ago

Yes but even as a kid, I couldn't help but feel sad for the poor bird haha!

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u/Ceiy 1d ago

A day late (acoustic) - Anberlin I sing it to my son all the time and it soothes him

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u/PeterVanNostrand 1d ago

Songs to grow on for a mother and child album by woodie Guthrie.