Slowness and Songs
Sep. 5th, 2005 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
averygoodun42I'm surprised how slow I am sometimes. Almost everyone (including me, 19
months ago) knows that singing is a great way to lull a baby to sleep.
It's in all the books, all the advice and every mom out there will
swear by it.
It took me till this week to figure it out.
One of the reasons I haven't been singing Babe to sleep is because I can't remember any lyrics to any song any more. Just the other day I started singing the Alphabet song to Babe, and forgot two words from the last line!!! ("now you") Not joking! DH was vastly amused. Of course, another reason I haven't been singing the lullabies is because DH has been putting Babe to bed as part of the nightly ritual. Since he's out of town...
I can remember stupid stuff from eighteen years ago that no else can. I can remember dreams from when I was four. I can even remember to pay the bills on time (mostly), but I can't remember the actual words to the Alphabet song? Sheesh.
Anyway, the reason I'm thinking about this now (besides having just put Babe down) is because I've been struggling to remember any soothing song's lyrics, because I'm crap at making them up. The Red Dwarf theme song, which is one of the few that I can actually remember (I think), is not exactly bedtime material. Just tonight I remembered one of the few hymns I ever memorized (I don't even remember the words to Silent Night anymore): "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear." It's always been my favorite hymn, and it turns out I remember 90% of the first verse and all of the music. For me, that's gold.
So anyway, here are the lyrics to the two songs I actually remember (mostly), one of which is a perfect lullaby and also rather apropos.
It's cold outside
No kind of atmosphere
I'm all alone, more or less,
Goldfish are nibbling on my toes,
Fun, fun, fun
In the sun, sun sun
I want to lie
Shipwrecked and comatose
Drinking fresh mango juice
Goldfish are nibbling on my toes
Fun, fun, fun
In the sun, sun sun
Fun, fun fun
In the sun, sun, sun
and
It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth,
To touch their harps of gold:
"Peace on the earth, goodwill to men
From heavens all gracious King!"
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.
(like I have a prayer of ever remembering the rest)
Still through the cloven skies they come,
With peaceful wings unfurled;
And still their heavenly music floats
O'er all the weary world:
Above its sad and lowly plains
They bend on hovering wing,
And ever o'er its Babel sounds
The blessed angels sing.
O ye beneath life's crushing load,
Whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along the climbing way
With painful steps and slow;
Look now, for glad and golden hours
Come swiftly on the wing;
Oh rest beside the weary road
(I'm going to have to get me a hymnal one of these days, methinks)
It took me till this week to figure it out.
One of the reasons I haven't been singing Babe to sleep is because I can't remember any lyrics to any song any more. Just the other day I started singing the Alphabet song to Babe, and forgot two words from the last line!!! ("now you") Not joking! DH was vastly amused. Of course, another reason I haven't been singing the lullabies is because DH has been putting Babe to bed as part of the nightly ritual. Since he's out of town...
I can remember stupid stuff from eighteen years ago that no else can. I can remember dreams from when I was four. I can even remember to pay the bills on time (mostly), but I can't remember the actual words to the Alphabet song? Sheesh.
Anyway, the reason I'm thinking about this now (besides having just put Babe down) is because I've been struggling to remember any soothing song's lyrics, because I'm crap at making them up. The Red Dwarf theme song, which is one of the few that I can actually remember (I think), is not exactly bedtime material. Just tonight I remembered one of the few hymns I ever memorized (I don't even remember the words to Silent Night anymore): "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear." It's always been my favorite hymn, and it turns out I remember 90% of the first verse and all of the music. For me, that's gold.
So anyway, here are the lyrics to the two songs I actually remember (mostly), one of which is a perfect lullaby and also rather apropos.
It's cold outside
No kind of atmosphere
I'm all alone, more or less,
Goldfish are nibbling on my toes,
Fun, fun, fun
In the sun, sun sun
I want to lie
Shipwrecked and comatose
Drinking fresh mango juice
Goldfish are nibbling on my toes
Fun, fun, fun
In the sun, sun sun
Fun, fun fun
In the sun, sun, sun
and
It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth,
To touch their harps of gold:
"Peace on the earth, goodwill to men
From heavens all gracious King!"
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.
(like I have a prayer of ever remembering the rest)
Still through the cloven skies they come,
With peaceful wings unfurled;
And still their heavenly music floats
O'er all the weary world:
Above its sad and lowly plains
They bend on hovering wing,
And ever o'er its Babel sounds
The blessed angels sing.
O ye beneath life's crushing load,
Whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along the climbing way
With painful steps and slow;
Look now, for glad and golden hours
Come swiftly on the wing;
Oh rest beside the weary road
(I'm going to have to get me a hymnal one of these days, methinks)
