P has a sweet tradition of singing the girls to sleep at night. Sometimes he accompanies himself with guitar or piano (M has a keyboard in her room), but most times it is just accapello lullabies. C's favorite is Pony on a Boat by Lyle Lovett. M's fave is any song that C doesn't sing along on! She used to love Travelin' Soldier by Bruce Robison, but won't let P sing it anymore because now that she has had the meaning explained to her, it is too sad. (If you don't know it, it is a GREAT song that you should look up--the Dixie Chicks covered it, but the original Bruce version is the best.) The nightly repertoire ranges from Wonderwall by Oasis to Her Majesty by the Beatles to April, She Comes by Simon and Garfunkel to anything Willie. There are often theme nights: patriotic songs, songs from musicals, Christmas songs (even in July!), etc. But there is one constant....the medley that symbolizes the end of the road, the songs are over, lights out, time to go to sleep. It consists of Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight Ladies, the Lawrence Welk theme, Goodnight, Sleeptight, and finally Happy Trails.
Here is another version of the night-night songs that is too stinking cute not to share. This was sent to me from Aunt Bee-Bah. The girls are gonna LOVE it when I show it to them in the morning.
Sweet Dreams, all!
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That's so sweet! The girls and Grayson love Craig to sing Lyle's Pony on a Boat too!
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