Songs about Babies!

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And I don't mean "baby, baby, baby" in an Ian Astbury way. I mean children.

"Stay Up Late" by Talking Heads
"Bodies" by the Sex Pistols
"Too Much Too Young" by the Specials
"Eat for Two" by 10,000 Maniacs
"This Woman's Work" by Kate Bush
"Mom & Dad Like the Baby More than Me" by the Happy Flowers
"Pink Thing" by XTC (also arguably about Andy Patridge's penis)
"Let Her Cry" by Hootie & the Blowish (I know, I know...sounds illogical, but someone once zealously attempted to convince me that this song is actually about the process of teaching your infant to sleep through the night....let them cry, and after three nights, they sort it out.).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 12 April 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Others?o

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 12 April 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

'Stay up Late' or whatever that Talking Heads song is called.

― rw, Monday, 12 April 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

sigh

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 12 April 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

'The Spotlight Kid' by Beefheart.
'Put a Straw Under Baby' by Eno.

― rw, Monday, 12 April 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

there's an okay collection of Woody Guthrie's childrens songs done by modern folk(ie)s, incl. Billy Bragg with a song about waking up in a dry bed, and a kind creepy Taj Mahal singing about Count Tickula.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 April 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"Dead Babies" by Vincent Furnier, esq., of course.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Monday, 12 April 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Loretta Lynn "One's on the way"

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 April 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"Babies Got Rabies" by Six Finger Satellite

Hey Ya.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Monday, 12 April 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Lyle Lovett "Fat Babies"

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 April 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"Stay Up Late" - Talking Heads

― INTO THE GROUND, YO (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 April 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Baby Got Back

― shookout (shookout), Monday, 12 April 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

the cucumbers, "don't drop the baby"
loudon wainwright III, "rufus is a tit man"
bruce springsteen, "living proof"
john lennon, "beautiful boy"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 12 April 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Pulp - Babies
Knife - She's Having Baby

― ferg (Ferg), Monday, 12 April 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't she lovely, isn't she wonderful, isn't she special, she's just one minute old.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 April 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

momus - "his majesty the baby"

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 12 April 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

jonathan richman, "not yet three"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

madonna, "dear jessie"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"City Babies' Revenge" - GBH

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"Let' Have A Baby"- Prince
"You're Having My Baby"- Paul Anka
"Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby"- traditional/O Brother SNDTRK

― Randy Reiss (undeadsinatra), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Knocked Up Batman"

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Jellyfish, "New Mistake"

― Joseph McCombs, Monday, 12 April 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Richard & Linda Thompson: "The End of The Rainbow"

― mike a, Monday, 12 April 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Will Smith--Just the Two of Us
Talib Kweli--Joy

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Monday, 12 April 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"Drain You" - Nirvana

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 12 April 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Wait"-- Pretenders.

― nonthings (nonthings), Monday, 12 April 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Tanya Donelly - "Keeping You"
Sleater-Kinney - "Sympathy"

― chris j (chris j), Monday, 12 April 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"isn't she lovely" by stevie wonder
m.

― msp, Monday, 12 April 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Sleater-Kinney-"Little Babies" and "Lions and Tigers"

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Monday, 12 April 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Meat Puppets-Oh Me

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Monday, 12 April 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

White Stripes-The Hardest Button To Button

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Monday, 12 April 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Baby's on Fire (not really about a baby though) - Brian Eno
City Baby Attacked By Rats - GBH

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 12 April 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

dearhunters "ivy"

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 12 April 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

good god, bonus points to sasha for the gbh ref.
m.

― msp, Monday, 12 April 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Ocean" mentions a three year-old, fwiw.

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I believe David Bowie wrote "Kooks" to/for his newborn. Does that count?

― cws (cws), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Cardboard Brains "babies run my world" on the "last pogo" LP sigh..too true in our current situation.

― chad (chad), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"For Phoebe, Still a Baby" and "Pur" - Cocteaus.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 06:33 (twenty-one years ago)

sleater-kinney - lions and tigers, little babies

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 07:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Howbout songs written from the VIEWPOINT of a baby? I know of at least three: "Rockin Stroll" (Lemonheads), "Belly Button Window" (Jimi Hendrix) and something by Faith No More whose title escapes me. (It's on The Real Thing.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"Your Child" or something like that by Mary J. Blige is about a baby. I feel like there are a good number of R&B songs about babies as the result of a infidelity. One on Usher's latest as well called "Confession" I think.

― devon (popmatters devon), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"I see some ladies tonight that should be having my baby/ baby"

― Sym (shmuel), Friday, 16 April 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"Good Life"- Paul Davis (atleast the first few lines)
"Waer Clean Drawers"- The Coup

― Randy Reiss (undeadsinatra), Friday, 16 April 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.showandtellmusic.com/pages/galleries/gallery_l/lilmarkie.html

― jazz odysseus, Friday, 16 April 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"Contre Le Sexisme"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 16 April 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Sinead 'O Connor -- Three Babies (and seemingly half of the "I Do Not Want ..." album)

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 17 April 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

(and several of the tracks on A Thousand Leaves are about living with the kids, or addressed to them)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 17 April 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Shaving Cream by Dr. Demento, well at least the verse about the baby falling out of the window.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 17 April 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Let them be little
Billy Dean

so wonderful it makes me cry

― Erica, Monday, 6 March 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

You'll be Blessed
Elton John

Mother's Prayer
Celine Dion

― Erica, Monday, 6 March 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

"Clair" by Gilbert O'Sullivan
"Save Your Kisses For Me" by Brotherhood Of Man

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

pop goes the world- men without hats

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Monday, 6 March 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

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