My songs are getting old
I’m going to have to make a concerted effort to learn a bunch of new bedtime songs and lullabies. My repertoire is getting super stale. My songs still seem to work for putting Wyatt to sleep, but the problem is that I’m putting myself to sleep too. I’ve taken to jazzing them up and changing them by over-emphasizing certain verses or singing in strange voices. I shudder to think what the neighbors must think (our windows are always open). They probably shut their windows and put on noise-canceling headphones. I’m always afraid I’ll walk out the door in the morning to get the paper or something and get pelted with rocks and garbage.
The songs are actually real good, I’m just sick of them. If you need a new song for “nighnigh,” try one of these. Here, for the record, are the songs I sing to Wyatt each night. Not all of them every night. I usually try to get away with only singing three or four.
- “The Ballad of Jed Clampet” (The Beverly Hillbillies song), by Paul Henning
- “Highwayman,” by The Highwaymen
- “My Little Buckaroo,” Doc Watson version
- “Tennessee Stud,” Doc Watson version
- “Shenandoah,” my own version
- And sometimes: “Take Me Home Country Roads,” by John Denver. Wyatt doesn’t always let me sing this one because he says it’s a “Mommy song.” He thinks the line that goes, “West Virginia, Mountain mama” is about Mama coming home. And when she’s at work or something it makes him cry.
So there you have it. Suggestions for new songs welcome.
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I posted this blog entry from Textmate, my new workhorse text editor! I was late finding this program, I guess. But it really is excellent and exceeds all my expectations. The blogging bundle works great. I can’t say I’m missing much of anything about Emacs. Except it cross-platformness, maybe.
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