Sing Your Hipster Baby to Sleep
Music to sing your kids to sleep without boring yourself to sleep, but it’s not just for parents of young kids
featuring artists like
Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Willie Nelson, Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Elizabeth Cotten, Talking Heads
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Since my kids were born, my major musical activity has been singing them to sleep at night. It’s taken me a while to build up a collection of songs to sing that I actually like and won’t get sick of. You’ll see a number of songs here that might immediately seem too uptempo, too sad, or just plain too weird to be lullabies. I can assure you that if you sing them slowly and softly, they all work great.
This is music to sing your kids to sleep without boring yourself to sleep, but it’s not just for parents of young kids. Consider it a collection of songs from an eclectic array of genres and eras with one thing in common: you can sing them, to yourself or someone else, and they will make you feel better.
The Anchor Song – Björk
26 July 2017
We want our daughter to grow up to be a strong feminist. So far, it looks like we don’t have much to worry about. At eighteen months, this child has no problem exerting her will upon the world. She shoves larger children out of her way, grabs whatever she wants out of people’s hands, bites me hard when she thinks I’m paying insufficient attention to her, and generally behaves like she was raised by wolves.