What song (not nursery rhyme or lullaby) did you sing...

[Bbbananas]

... to your children when they were young (or still do, if they're still young?)

I used to sing to my Daniel Spaniel "You are my Sunshine, my only Sunshine". and when he was about 9 months old "Come on Eileen" was number 1 and he used to love me to sing that to him, and dance around the living room.

Spookily enough - I reminded him of this only the other week - and he swears he remembers both!!

[funnygirl]

Hey diddle diddle
the cat done a piddle
the little dog farted to see such fun

[funnygirl]

And the dish had it off with the spoon!

[horselady]

Used to sing Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Claire" to my daughter when she was about 2. Yes, her name is Claire!

[Bbbananas]

Sachs - I've just listened to Mucky Kid - it was lovely - a real nostalgia trip.

I was a very clean kid (had to be, with my fastidious mother - all that spitting on the hankie & wiping my face continually, yuck) - I was all pink dress, white socks and black ringlets - but with scabs on my knees, grazes on my forehead and ruddy cheeks.

[mccfluff]

puff the frigging dragon

[Bbbananas]

Puff the magic dragon
couldn't find a mate
he wallowed through the autumn mist
accustomed to his fate

then one day he found her
a lovely bit of stuff
but he didn't know what to do with her
that's why they call him puff.....

Tthat was our version. You couldn't get away with that these days could you?!!

[daftgrandad]

I used to sing "Scarlet Ribbons" to both my kids and still do to my youngest grandaughter.

[Bbbananas]

That's lovely daftgrandad.

ALso - I think your username is lovely xx
I bet they think you are daft - in the nicest possible way!

[daftgrandad]

Thanks Sallabananas.
It was the eldest one,aged 10,who actually suggested the user name !! xx

[rinkins]

I used to sing "Me and my teddy bear" to my god daughter when she was 18months (she lived with us full time for a good while) especially when she was teething. Always reminds me of her and most of the time it worked!

[Bbbananas]

Good Girl !!

My kids' names for their grandads were: 'Grandad Curlyhead' (for obvious reasons) and 'Grandad Billy with the 10 foot Willy' (after the cowboy song...) but, thankfully for school and public purposes (and whenever Nanna was around) it was shorted to Grandad Billy.

[rinkins]

Oops just realised it was meant to be a song.

How about "mamma got back"??

[Mustardmit]

Sachs was the next line something like "when he hears the things you did, you'll get a skelp from yer dad"? LOL I remember that one.

[Bbbananas]

... needless to add that my dad was secretly very very flattered :-)

[Mustardmit]

My dad used to sing me and my sister to sleep with this song he made up "aye tiddly eye sh!t or bust, never let your goolies dangle in the dust"

[Sachs]

lol mustard at that last song! I think it was 'belt' from yer dad!

[Sachs]

& does that kid look like a young 'Hulk' ? ;0) Richard Bannerman?

[Sachs]

I've got the giggles now, the more I look the more I think he does! Love those shots though! Very Lowry - ish!

[RJUKL]

"Boomiddy, boomiddy, boomiddy (well, you spell it then) boom, here comes the galloping major" etc remembered from my mother singing it while bouncing a baby on her knee.

Also "The is the way the ladies ride" etc from the same era.
Ruth