November 9, 2009
Name That Song! (For Free Stuff!)
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You Are My Sunshine…
That’s my song, my favorite childhood song; my dad used to sing it to me.
Now I sing it to my babes, but I replace “sunshine” with their names.
Do you have a favorite childhood song? Do your kiddos?
Would you tell me for free stuff?
Tommy Nelson, super-cool-Jesus-kiddo-stuff, has something fun up their sleeve this holiday season and they want you to be a part of it…
“One of our favorite things about kids is there lack of any inhibition whatsoever – especially when it comes to singing. Little ones will belt out their favorite song, or whatever pops into their head, whenever they feel it coming on. They have little regard for tone or pitch, but throw their whole hearts into every note! In honor of their fearless vocal stylings, Tommy Nelson is kicking off the Christmas Countdown with a week of singing.”
What’s up for grabs this week?
Each day this week Tommy Nelson is giving away a different Bible story and song book from the Grammy award-winning Stephen Elkins. On Friday they are giving away a prize pack with an iPod and an Elkins full library!!!


To be entered into this giveaway…
- Leave a comment with your favorite childhood song
For extra entries…
- Follow Tommy Nelson on Twitter
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Leave a separate comment for each thing you do!
The low-down: ReTweet @TommyNelson’s daily giveaways to be entered to win a different Elkin’s book with CDs every day this week. Comment here to enter the big Friday giveaway – an iPod and full Elkin’s library.
Let’s see if we can come up with 100 songs! Here’s a start:
- You Are My Sunshine
- Jesus Loves Me
- The Barney Song
- The songs Grandma always hums
- Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
- The songs they make up with their friends
- The Alphabet Song
- Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
- Old MacDonald Had a Farm
- Your Turn!
What was/is your favorite kid song/songs…



























174 Responses to “Name That Song! (For Free Stuff!)”
We have that first storybook with CD book “100 Ways to Know God Loves Me.” It’s great!
1. A bushel and a peck
My mama sings this to all her grand children.
2. I actually sing all the old time nursery rhymes to my kids, instead of saying them.
3. B I N G O
4. Itsy Bitsy Spider
5. There’s Something About That Name (the old hymn)
I will never forget working in a daycare and listening to a caregiver in the baby room rocking and singing that hymn to the baby. I was only 20 years old. But I can still hear her singing that and thinking the sweetest. In emotional times I have found myself singing that to my babies.
6. Candy Girl
Was it by the Jackson 5?
Have a blessed week
I don’t remember singing songs with my parents as a kid. But I had a tape with the song “There’s a Hole in my Bucket” and I adored that. (Otherwise I also remember rewinding a Madonna tape to listen to Material Girl over and over and over haha).
I love singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow with my boys. I was just teaching Tristan “You are my Sunshine” yesterday. :)
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My favorite, and there’s are songs I made up for each one. My two homegrown children, I sang it while they were in the womb, my China born daughter, when she came home to sleep in a strange bed and learn what family was.
Here are the songs>
(To the tune of Domonic, from the Singing Nun)
Nico, Nico, Nicholas
A boy named Nicholas
Grew up to be a man
He really was quite smart
He loved God with all his Heart,
Nicholas a godly man.
(To the tune of oh Christmas tree)
Anthony Oh ANthony
Oh how we love our Anthony
Anthony oh ANthony
A godly boy named ANthony
For he loves God with all his heart
He really really is quite smart
Oh Anthony oh Anthony, Oh how we love our ANthony.
(To the tune of Little Rabbit Foo foo)
Little Princess Qing Qing (pronounced Ching-Ching)
All the way from China
Mary Elisabeth
My little China Girl
She loves God with all her heart
She really really is quite Smart
Little Princess Qing Qing
I love you China girl.
I know the words are all similiar, but the melodies are different and each loves their special song.
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My daughter’s (2 yr.) name is Alaire and she loves for me to sing Baby Alaire, Baby Alaire….. to the tune of Oh My Darlin’ Clementine. My son (4 yr.) calls When the Roll is Called up Yonder his “crying song” because since birth whenever he is upset I sing it to him and he calms right down.
We have several we sing our children (almost) every night. We have since they were all itty-bitties. We sing “You are My Sunshine”, “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” the “ABC’s” and “1 little, 2 little, 3 little Indians…”. Also helped with learning their numbers and letters…all of them (so far) have said their ABC’s and numbers up to 10 before they were 2 (or right around the time they turned 2)
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Mine is in spanish. . .my mom used to sing it to my sis and I when we where on the water (call it bath, pool, beach) it goes like this: “los patitos van al agua, tienen ganas de jugar. . .”
we’re all grown up know, but we still sing it :D
I used to sing “How Great is Our God” to my son before bed. It’s not really a “childhood” song, but it will be for Elijah.
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I Knew and Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly…
It’s a Small World After All
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The Ants Go Marching… of course! :)
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My favorite childhood song was a simple one my mom made up and sung to me all the time.
Bye oh bye oh bye oh baby
Bye oh bye oh baby girl
Bye oh bye oh bye oh baby
Bye oh momma’s baby girl.
Sweet memories!
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I like to eat eat eat Apples and Bananas…
Praise Him praise Him all you little children.
God is love, God is love.
Praise Him praise Him all you little children.
God is love, God is love.
I remember a time when i all of a sudden thought it was a boring song with no action, but i remember that up to that time i chose it everytime i could! (now i sing it with kids and love it it again.)
When I was little, my grandmother owned a dry cleaners that my mom worked at and of course in the summer I’d go to work with her. The seamstress would put me on her knee and sing,
“Found a peanut, found a peanut, found a peanut just now, I just now found a peanut, found a peanut just now.
Cracked it open, cracked it open, cracked it open just now, I just now cracked it open, cracked it open just now.
It was rotten, it was rotten, it was rotten just now. It just now was rotten, was rotten just now.
Ate it anyhow, ate it anyhow, ate it anyhow just now, I just now ate it anyhow, ate it anyhow just now.
Got sick, got sick got sick just now, I just now got sick got sick just now.”
When I got married she wanted to wrap up a peanut for me but she didn’t think my very proper grandmother would like it.
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Every night that my dad was home (he’s a firefighter, so every 3 days he was gone) he would read to me and sing me to sleep. My favorites were You Are My Sunshine and Somewhere Over The Rainbow. But he would also sing me a billion other ones–a lot of country, whatever he liked at the time, so some were too grown-up for me to get, but I loved his voice.
I think this is one of the best things you can do for kids, it’s calming.
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My mom used to sing You are My Sunshine to me and now i sing it to my boys. =)
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1. The Little Mermaid Song (and now it’s one of my daughter’s favorites too!)
2. Arise, Shine (my 2 year old) My daughter now calls raisins “Arise, Shine” because in the song it says, “He is risin” and I guess raisins and risin sound the same to her :)
3. I’m So Wonderfully Made (my 1 year old) As soon as it comes on she starts bouncing her feet in her carseat and smiles. I LOVE it!
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My children are real big Laurie Berkner fans so, we always end up singing, “we are the dinosaurs, Slip and Slide,and I’m going to catch you” we also sing every night Shout to the lord by Hillsong. Which usually leads into other praise and worship songs…..
My mom used to wake me and my siblings up with this song ” Good morning Jesus, good morning love, I know your sent from heaven above, your Holy Spirit shines like a dove, good morning Jesus, good morning love.”
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My family had a player piano and the roll for this song was worn thin…”You’ve Got to See Mama Every Night, Or You Can’t See Mama at All”. It is a fun, upbeat, oldie, goldie jazz number and a standard in my family!
“I Am A Promise!” … I would play the Gaither children’s album … you know … the really big one on the record player … over and over and over until I really don’t think it would play anymore. Then, Mama got me the cassette …
My grandma used to sing “I love you a bushel and a peck, a bushel and a peck, and a hug around the neck”. She died from cancer 3 years ago. While she was in the hospital (for only a week before she died)I would sit next to her and hold her hand and sing that song in her ear. Now I can’t sing it at all without crying. I’ll be a grandmama in June and I’ve got to get where I can sing it again so I can share it with my grandbabies.
You are My Sunshine
Jesus, Sweetest Name I Know
There’s Something About that Name
Father Abraham
Too many Donut Man songs to name…
the B.I.B.L.E. and now I get to sing it with my 2 yr old!!
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Oh my goodness – my sons ask for “The ants go marching one by one…” every time we get in the car. I’m thankful that it hasn’t made it out of the car yet, though… ;)
My favorite song from my childhood was one my mom used to sing to us – it’s an Eskimo song that she learned in girl scouts when she was a girl… it’s fast and silly, and I have no idea what any of it means…
“Shanni anni manni anni ish key quoo key kwai-ah, key kwai-ah…”
– and so on!
My family had a record player and at our church they did a musical show on the Music Machine!!
There’s so many songs but it’s one of my favorite kids classic.
My kids today are suck on a french bible song that we sing every night.
Here are the words:
L’ARCHE DE NOÉ
Y’avait des crocodiles et des orangs-outangs,
des affreux reptiles et des jolis moutons blancs.
Y’avait des chats, des rats des éléphants
Il ne manquait personne,
pas même les deux lionnes et la jolie licorne.
Quand le bateau fut prêt à affronter les eaux.
Noé fit monter les animaux deux par deux
et quand la pluie s’est mise à tomber.
Noé s’écria “Seigneur! Je fais de mon mieux!”
Y’avait une moufette et un serpent à sonnette
un caméléon et des jolies papillons
Y’avait un chien, deux lapins et trois maringouins
Tout le monde était là,
même le koala et son ami le panda
Not original, but we love Jesus Loves Me. A few weeks ago we were visiting our home church and the pastor had a little impromptu concert while we waited to go down to the potluck. He asked for requests. My 4 yo went running to the front of the sanctuary (gasp) and said “I’ve gotta song!” The pastor asked him which one and he said proudly, “Jesus loves me!” And that sweet pastor swept my son up into his arms, sat him on his lap and played the song while they sang it together. I cried through the whole thing.
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I know I had MANY favorite songs, but the one ’silly song’ that comes to mind was ‘Germs, My Invisible Dog’.
‘How Much is that Doggie in the Window’
My Mema sang that to me and I sing it with my daughter. Ever heard it? “How much is that doggie in the window (woof! woof!) The one with the waggily tail. How much is that doggie in the window? (Woof! Woof!) I do hope that doggie’s for sale.”
:)
I sing a made up song to my daughter. The tune just popped into my head when she was a tiny infant and the words are “I love you”…with her name.
You Are My Sunshine is another favorite.
and Sweet Child of Mine.
and Heart and Soul. but I don’t know all the lyrics so I just make them up as I go. Yesterday at the grocery store I was singing to Bubba: “heart and soul, do not be fussy babe we’re almost done…” :)
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Lots of great ones! My girls’ favorite for a LONG time was “Jesus Loves the Little Children,” we sang that so many times we finally had to suggest something else when it was requested. “My God is so BIG, so STRONG and so MIGHTY” is also a big fave!
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We were a very musical family so I can’t even begin to name all of the songs my mom(and dad)sang to me when I was little!! One of my favorites though was a song called, “The Land of Lemonade and Lollipops”. It has such cute words and there’s a tape of me singing it in a very high little voice when I was about 2. And my little girl used to do the same thing!(she has since moved on to other favorites) I’ve always sang alot to both of the kids….and my son always liked you are my sunshine as well. We just got a piano and he now wants me to play for him to sing,”Thank You, Lord” all the time. Music is so much fun and such a great way to teach the kids to worship and praise the Lord!!
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The Fox by Nickel Creek. When my girls were younger we’d pop the CD in, play that song and dance and spin ourselves silly!
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My mom always use to sing “Hush little baby don’t say a word momma’s going to buy you a mocking bird….”
We have always loved Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Baby Beluga.
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The itsy bitsy spider, the alphabet song, and twinkle twinkle little star are the current hits in our home.
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My favorite was always “You are my sunshine” But my daughter loves: “My God is so big” “Oh be careful little eyes” and I will sing to her “All the way” (Sinatra) Just to name a few you don’t have listed yet.
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My favorite childhood song is “She’ll be coming ’round the mountain”. My parents split with I was really little and when I got to visit my dad he often had to work delivering mulch and rock to people. He’d load me up in the dump truck and we’d sing this, adding verses as we go. It’s my favorite memory of my dad.
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I honestly don’t remember my mom ever singing to me, but that didn’t stop me from singing to my kiddos! We have the same tune (something my hubs made up on the spot and it stuck!) for each of our three kids but with different words.
For Gigi:
Gi-bo rocking with Dad, rocking with Daddy
Gi-bo rocking with Dad, rocking with Daddy
When she rocks, she goes kick! kick! kick!
Rocking with Daddy!
For Claire:
Claire Bear rocking with Dad, rocking with Daddy
Claire Bear rocking with Dad, rocking with Daddy
When she rocks, she goes waa! waa! waa!
Rocking with Daddy!
For Deacon:
D-bud rocking with Dad, rocking with Daddy
D-bud rocking with Dad, rocking with Daddy
When he rocks, he goes Kung Fu! Fu!
Rocking with Daddy!
Very silly, but the kids loved it, and they still smile and giggle whenever they hear those songs today!
My mom used to sing “Bicycle Built for Two” and I always thought it was corny but now I love it !:)
I don’t remember singing that much as a child. But now certain words can be said and I will just start singing a song that has that word in it. But there’s been several I’ve sang to my kids.
Hush Little Baby
You Are My Sunshine
All My Love
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I always loved Silent Night! No matter what time of year it was!
My 3 yr old’s favorite song is the hymn I have decided to follow Jesus. My heart melts every time she sings :)
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I sing both my cherubs names to a tune, and spell their names to a tune. I also made up song when I was nursing them that they now ask for. These songs are their favorites for sure. But a song that all know my reference to is probably “twinkle, twinkle”
Delta Dawn by Tanya Tucker. I used to sing it at the top of my lungs.
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What a great give away! Oh, favorite songs… You are my sunshine is our go to song, then Jesus Loves me, Jesus Loves the Little Children, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Amazing grace, Your Name… When I was little my mom would sing a song Lord You are More Precious that Silver. And so many more!!
I don’t actually know the name of my favorite childhood song…it is from a music box owned by my grandmother!
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I always remember singing ‘A bushel and a Peck’.
I now sing it to my kidlets!
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My son and I sing Trust in the Lord every night at bedtime. That’s the one he always requests. It’s the slow version by Sixpence None the Richer.
If you’re happy and you know it…..
LOVE that one! :)
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Have Patience! Such a great song about Herbert the snail!
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Our favorite song Not sure what the name is but goes like this when all the rain drops are lemon drops and gum drops oh what a rain it will be. standing outside with my mouth open wide singing ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. sometimes I cannot remember the words and then it gets silly. its a fun time. to be a mom! we love to make up songs for getting dressed or my favorite when we have success on the potty!
When I was a little girl, my parents used to sing to/with us at bedtime. I don’t know if they sang these two more often than others, or what, but “His Name is Wonderful” and “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus” (the one with “…like the fragrance after the rain…”) are the two that I specifically remember them singing. In fact, all of my parents’ grandchildren refer to these songs as the ones they “sang to the girls when they were little”!
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Oh how fun! Mine was Jesus Loves Me & The Barney Song & You are My Sunshine & THE SONG THAT NEVER ENDS! Remember it from Lambchops Play Along?
This is the song that never ends
Yes it goes on and on my friend
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was
And they’ll continue singing it forever just because
This is the song that never ends!
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My favorite song was a song that would chime when my grandmother’s alarm clock would go off every morning. I used to spend a couple of weeks every summer with her and she would set up a cot in her bedroom for me. Every morning, I would wake to her singing along to her alarm clock:
“Oh what a beautiful morning,
Oh what a beautiful day,
I’ve got a wonderful feeling,
Everything’s going my way.”
Here is the song in it’s entirety:
Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’
Music by Richard Rodgers, lyric by Oscar Hammerstein II
Copyright © 1943 by Williamson Music
There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow,
There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow,
The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye,
An’ it looks like its climbin’ clear up to the sky.
Chorus:
Oh what a beautiful morning,
Oh what a beautiful day,
I’ve got a wonderful feeling,
Everything’s going my way.
Repeat chorus
All the cattle are standing like statues,
All the cattle are standing like statues,
They don’t turn their heads as they see me ride by.
But a little brown mav’rick is winking her eye.
Repeat chorus
All the sounds of the earth are like music,
All the sounds of the earth are like music,
The breeze is so busy it don’t miss a tree,
And an ol’ Weepin’ Willer is laughin’ at me.
Repeat chorus
It wasn’t until later in life that I realized that this song was the opening song in the musical “Oklahoma!”. I just remember it being a sweet little song that my grandmother used to sing to me with a smile on her face to gently wake me each morning I spent with her. I can’t hear it any other way.
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Oh we love to sing. We have sung “Kumbaya” to our daughter every night since she was born & “Twinkle Twinkle” little star to our son. I like to sing “Rise & Shine” when I get them out of their cribs in the morning and “You are My Sunshine” during my daughter’s meltdowns. Very neat to read through everyone’s favorites!!
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When my daughter was little, my husband always sang I’m a Little Teapot to her. I loved it. Everynight, both kids dd8 and ds5, require that we sing our song. It is Hush My Dear. We heard it when dd was born and it stuck.
We used to sing “Someone’s in the Kitchen with Dinah” in our car when we were growing up. I guess I’m showing my age but it was fun as we harmonized it as a family. I loved the part when we’d sing “fe, fi, fiddly i -o, fe, fi, fiddly i-o,o, o, o”
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We sing-
“I see the moon, The moon sees me, The moon sees somebody I want to see. God bless the moon, God bless me, And God bless the somebody I want to see.”
-every night before bed.
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star is another favorite in our house.
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Disney songs. I grew up singing. Probably my favorite was Reflection from the movie Mulan. Couldn’t hit all the high notes…but I didn’t care ;)
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I sing “Silent Night” to my son at naptime or bedtime. Maybe it’s wishful thinking that he’ll go to sleep silently!
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I’m so thankful that my kids don’t mind that I can’t sing, because I love to sing to them so much. : )
We are big fans around here of all the childhood songs you’ve already listed, but our most sung lullaby is “I Love You Lord”
I Love You Lord
And I lift my voice
To worship You,
Oh my soul,
Rejoice!
Take joy, my King
In what you hear.
May it be a sweet, sweet song
In your ear!
I’m thankful I grew up singing songs to Jesus. They are all still in me from my childhood and come out when I tuck in my kids.
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Hi!
Hmm, a favorite childhood song? Well, I’m not sure it was my favorite but I liked “Rise and Shine, and give God the glory, glory!” :)
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My 5yo son Matthew & I love to sing “If You’re Happy and You Know It”. I often add the ending “tickle Matthew”. We have lots of fun together making up different actions and just being silly.
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It’s not really a children’s song, but my Nana used to sing “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”. I thought it was “swing low sweet Cherry Ahhh” hehehe!!
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I sing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star to both of my kids at night, and I used to sing Mama’s Going To Buy You a Mockingbird to my daughter.
My favorites were Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and Old MacDonald Had A Farm. Our girls love Jesus Loves Me. What a fun giveaway!!
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“Are You Sleeping” or Frere Jacques. :)
umm I didn’t grow up in a christian-type home– we had johnny mathis and rock n roll- cats in the cradle was my favorite song. and I had NO IDEA what it meant:P
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All Through The Day.
It was on a Kids Praise album when I was growing up. I sing it every night to my kids as a protective blessing before they go to bed.
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My favorite is also you are my sunshine i sing that song to Elianna everytime she gets upset or doesn’t feel good and she seems to love it and often coos along with it… its so adorable!
Amanda! I need to see that sweet little babe of yours soon…oh, and you too of course! ;)
We have a lot of favorites but probably our top two are Jesus Loves the Little Children & Our God is so big. Thanks!!
I don’t know why, but I always loved “Someone’s in the kitchen with Dinah…” I sang it all the time!
My girls love it when I sing “My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean” – only I substitute their names for “Bonnie”. I began singing it to them after my 2nd one was born and it would get both of them to sleep at the same time. It’s my miracle song. lol
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My curly-haired, baby girl Sydney would sing the “You are so beautiful to me…can’t you see?” We sang this to her everyday, especially her daddy, so even though we were singing about HER, she wanted to sing it about OTHER people too! She is still a generous, kind spirit at age 16!
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We’re teaching our 2yo lots of songs right now, and his current favorite is “Praise Him, Praise Him.” For some reason, he especially likes the second verse:
Serve Him, serve Him
All you little children!
God is love.
God is love.
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Jesus Loves me….. A classic… Love it and sing it to my kiddos all the time.
A Bushel and a Peck is my favorite!
I had young parents who watched MTV
So mine was Jump by Girls Aloud
80’s Song
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At good news club, I liked singing The B-I-B-L-E.
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I always liked “Jesus Loves Even Me”
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“You are my Sunshine” is probably my favorite to sing to my kids and now, my granddaughter. My Dad used to sing a country song to us – may have been called “That’s How Much I Love You, Baby”. I always loved that. My granddaughter’s favorite is “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, and believe it or not, “Amazing Grace”. We also sing songs together that I’ve written.
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And one of my favorite songs is “Joshua Beat the Battle of Jericho.” :)
I used to love listening to the Music Machine record. We played it all the time and my mom always sang the “Have Patience” song to us. I still sing that to my kids today and they’re teenagers (although there is a lot of eye-rolling involved when I sing it now!)
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Had to come back a second time and tell you that we also sing The Doxology. When my hubby was deployed, and I was alone in Germany with 2 little ones, I would sing it as I paced the floor with a newborn in the middle of the night, or just when I’d had a crazy day… Brings comfort and peace to a long day…
“Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye Heavenly Host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.”
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Definitely Brahm’s Lullaby — you all know that tune, right? Okay, well, my mama always tucked me in at night (from the very earliest I can remember) and sang it to me with her very own words: “Lullaby and goodnight, go to sleep my Melissa, see you in the morning time, when the sun comes back up! But for now, go to sleep, see you in the morning; but for now, go to sleep, my Melissa Joy.”
Yep. My mother. The lyricist. :)
It’s still my favorite song. And I love that my son’s baby toys all seem to play it. :)
My favorite as a kid was:
I Am A Promise – Bill Gaither
My son’s favorite:
Awesome God – Rich Mullins
Second son’s favorite:
Bushel and a peck
Daughter’s favorite:
Jesus Loves Me
New Daughter’s favorite:
Hero – Skillet
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My favorite childhood song is Jesus Love Me. We like to sing A Bushel and Peck to our children now.
Jesus Loves Me is what I sing to both my girls before bed. My 4 year old can now sing along with me, and sings it to her little sister, and to her dollies when putting them down for a nap.
My dad always sang
‘would you like to swing on a star’
‘Picnic Time for Teddy Bears’
‘Catch a falling star’
‘Mares eat oats’
He is deceased now..great memories
The song from Bye Bye Birdie only put the kids name in it…
I love you __________ oh yes I do. I love you _______ and I’ll be true. When you’re not with me, I’m blue. Oh ______ I love you.
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Still love this one and my girls do, too!
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As silly as it may sound, my favorite song as a kid was the theme song to the Elephant Show (which I think was on PBS). Loved that song! The show was on every day at 11, lived for that time of day from age 4 to probably 9!
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Good Morning, Good Morning, Good Morning
It’s time to rise and shine
Good Morning, Good Morning, Good Morning
I hope you’re feeling fine
The Day is dawning just for you
There’s so much out there for you to do
Good Morning, Good Morning, Good Morning
It’s time to rise and shine! ….
So rise and shine and give God the glory, glory
Rise and shine and give God the glory, glory
Rise! and shine! and give God the glory, glory!!
Children of the Lord.
[Does anyone know the origin of this song? And is it one song or a combo of two? My mom would sing it to me every morning. I also loved, "I am a Promise" from the Gaithers "Kids under construction" LP! teehee.]
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I loved Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer as a kid. My children love Jesus Loves Me and Oh will you Wear Red Oh My Dear Oh My Dear…
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One memorable song which comes to mind is ‘Don’t Worry Be happy’. When visiting my Aunty in New Zealand one year she gave us a book with pictures to illustrate each verse of the song. the book also came with a CD. The Cd however only had the one song on it! So we had heaps of fun for a couple of hours working out how many times, we could sing ‘Don’t worry be happy’ until our next destination! Even now when I hear the song I think about wonderful days, touring the New Zealand countryside singing ‘Don’t Worry be Happy’. Now my faith has matured more, I find the song reminds me to cast all my cares on God ‘To worry about nothing, rather with prayer and petition cast all my cares on Christ’
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When my kids were little I always sang “Hush little baby don’t say a word, papa’s going to buy you a mocking bird.”. Not sure of the title but that is the first line.
My husband says his mom sang this little light of mine. My grandfather used to sing “When you wish upon a star” to me!
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Heavenly Sunlight was a favorite of mine growing up!
row row row your boat and london bridge were my favorite! my daughter currently loves jesus loves me! i hope this is open for international bloggers too..
Awwww…so sweet. I sing “Sunshine” to my kiddos too. It’s our fave. It always brings a little tear to my eye when my youngest crawls into my lap and says “Sing Sunshine, mama.”
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My daughter’s favorite song is “The Wheels on the Bus” and my son’s is a song they play on Noggin called “Taxi”.
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Awesome giveaway! I love “You are my Sunshine” and “Tomorrow” from Annie :-)
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Mine was Singin’ in the Rain
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My daughter can belt out a lovely rendition of “Blue Skies” complete with twirling and happy smiles.
Every night we sing “I am Jesus’ Little Lamb” before bedtime.
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I love You are my Sunshine. It’s always been a favorite of mine and I love singing it to my kids. I get teary eyed every time. Just thinking about how much I love them and how blessed I am to have them in my life.
My favorite song as a child was this medley that Sandi Patty and the Friendship Company sang. My twin and I had it all memorized–it was ~10 minutes! We LOVED it. Perfect for car trips. We currently own the Wee Sing Bible Songs and my daughter loves all of them…but especially Jesus Loves Me
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That’s a hard one….probably “I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy, down in my heart!”
My fav childhood song is also ‘You Are My Sunshine’ My mom used to sing it to me. Now that she has Alzheimer’s and is in a nursing home, I sing it to her. She doesn’t remember my name, but she loves and remembers that song. I can’t quite get thru it without crying, but it makes her smile so I just can’t not sing it. While I’m here, can I ask all of you to please say a prayer for her? Her name is Myrtle & her spirit loves the Lord with all her heart. Thank you!
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When I am with my grandchildren they like to have Jesus Loves Me sang to them when they go to bed. I also sing You Are My Sunshine, and Jesus Loves the Little Children.
My two sisters and I each have a song our parents picked just for us- mine is You Are My Sunshine because my mom said I got up with the sun each morning!
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My favorite song as a child was one that my Grandma sang me each night before bed. Jesus Loves me
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