Grandpa's Song List to Sing to Little Children

[Al Trujillo]

This coming May I'm going to be a first-time Grandpa and I'm pretty excited. I've been playing the Mandolin for a year now and I want to start a library of funny songs to sing to the little one. The baby is going to be a boy so any song with goobers, frogs, mud....the stuff his mom might roll her eyes at!

If you have them, or know where to find them, please help my list:
a) Songs,
b) Books
c) Internet / You Tube links

Thank you!!

[Isaac Revard]

Well...interestingly enough I just wrote a song about my 4 year old pooping in the front yard and eating his boogers...

Might be more fun to write your own

[Kevin Stueve]

My granddaughters' favorite lullaby is "Chesty Puller was a fine Marine and fine Marine was He"

[Ken]

I'm the grandpa nanny for a 5 year old and a 9 month old, both girls. Both are big fans of Barnyard Dance. We also do Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens and Straighten Up and Fly Right.

[Bigtuna]

Teddy Bears' Picnic, the song and whole album (Garcia and Grisman). Ain't no bugs on me off the same album.

Frog on a Lilly Pad - Monroe

[Mark Gunter]

Down On Penny's Farm

Froggy Went A-courtin'

The Fox Went Out On A Chilly Night

Big Rock Candy Mountain

You could make an arrangement of Bob Dylan's "Man Gave Names To All The Animals"

[Eddie Sheehy]

Inch by Inch and Row by Row
All God's people have a place in the Choir
Dance To Your Daddy my little laddie
We'll go fishin' in the fishin' hole
The Fox
Teddybears picnic
You Are my Sunshine
Sweet Baby James

Elizabeth Mitchell has an album with kids songs on it...

[bingoccc]

http://www.woodyguthrie.org/merchand...owbigsongs.htm

[BlueMt.]

"Grandma's Feather Bed" is a favorite of my great grandson.

[Simon DS]

You could try 'Man of Constant Sorrow', his Mom's going to roll her eyes at that, but better still, it's great song for jumping up and dancing! Here's a lesson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avfNGRfjAjo
You could also do an internet search using the name of songs or even just a phrase from a song with 'tab' afterwards for the lyrics and tablature (often guitar).

[Beanzy]

Rise Up Singing from the group Sing Out is a great starting point.
Compact and clear and arranged by theme too.

[KEB]

You Are my Sunshine

Folks keep singing this as a cheerful song. If you sign more than just the chorus, it's pretty dern sad.

[bobby bill]

Check out Trout Fishing in America: http://www.troutmusic.com/

I've seen/heard kids play their CD's over and over. And the music is intelligent enough that it is not annoying.

[Simon DS]

'Rise Up Singing', there's a wonderful book! Every time we learned a new song, my daughter (two years old then) would colour in the beautiful line drawing for that song.

[Teak]

"The Barnyard Dance" is a good one. Learn the Martin, Bogan, Armstrong version, not the other one.

"Late one night, by the pale moonlight, all the vegetables held a spree..."

If you want the lyrics and chords, PM me.

I am 3x a grandpa.

[Bertram Henze]

There's a classic one. Prepare for a sleepless night after that.

[wildpikr]

Maybe try "Pig in a Pen" and change the last lines in the verses where they call a name...

For example, "...sweet little Liza Jane." [from the song]
changes to "...sweet little Sara Jane." or "...sweet Miranda Jane."

Something like that, you get the drift I'm sure. They like hearing their name in a song...works on my grandchildren, at least...

[Capt. Quicksteel]

If you really want Mom to roll her eye's, how about "Dead Skunk In The Middle Of The Road" It annoys the heck out of my wife!