Popular music that would make a good lullaby

I'm getting super psyched about my baby girl, due to enter this world in about 3 months. What would be some solid baby jams I could use to sing her to sleep?

Like, i'll probably just end up singing some shit that I make up, but what are some cool rock or r&b songs to help a kid fall asleep?

Damn! No answers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWSPZyM0D5c

Someone else posed this question once, and one of the replies was "Love to Love You Baby," which both then and now I still find absolutely hilarious.

Not sure where you are, but in Canada, the Chapters chain has a whole series of CDs where they redo somebody's catalog as lullabys. I've bought the Ramones volume for two different friends. They've got Radiohead, Metallica, Kayne West, etc. Here's a link for the Ramones one:

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/music/Rockabye-Baby-Lullaby-Renditions-Ramones-Various-Artists/027297962224-item.html?ref=Search+Music%3a+%27rockabye+baby!%27.

http://rockabyebabymusic.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80e4mRdsHD0

congrats by the cool beanz

I love playing 'Spider and I' by Brian Eno to my baby. Also Alan Lomax singing 'All the Pretty Little Horses'.

Nick Cave's version of 'All The Pretty Little Horses' is better IMHO.

Also, this gorgeous song by Peter Hammill:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDiCheQlyqY

And Raymond Scott's Soothing Sounds for Baby Vols 1-3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94VWNiOcss0

Shack - walter songs (from 'Waterpistol')

Pearl - pearls dream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7B7A_dawI8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDAr24H-tKU

^ THis Heat - Sleep

"Afterhours," "Jesus," and "I'm Sticking with You."

Great - or at least interesting - suggestions everybody! I'm less interested in the Rockabye Baby stuff or particular artists versions of songs, since I want to come up with stuff that I can sing to her. But thanks!

Oh my god, "Afterhours" XD

When my son was little I used to sing the old bluegrass standard "Buffalo Gals" a lot, with the lyrics changed to "Little baby Evan needs to go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep..."

And once I sang "Frankie and Johnny" and caused his first real fit of giggling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UvD5KRCxQ4

http://youtu.be/aSqjmN217gA

That's Darkest Dreaming by David Sylvian by the way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAQHhWbImyY

also, this isn't really intuitive, but my dad's lullaby for me and my brother/sister (like every night until we were 3) was three little birds.

oh and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SxD3VZJ0OI

there's that scene in the Royle Family, which I wish I could find the YouTube, where they're cooing over a baby and humming along to "No Surprises".

> Shack - walter song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O__0fQZunXg

Blur - Miss America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maflDjy9dLU

The Beatles - Julia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWjpgv57X1s

probably the whole oeuvre of neil young. there is even a bookon neil young by navid kermani where he finds out the only way to soothe his crying baby girl is to play her neil young songs on the stereo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i1BSNPUNhY

when mine were in the crib I usually found Stevie Wonder would calm them down. then Animal Collective if you want to make them start crying again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY_ekVg8e0g

A couple years ago my (about 4 at the time) daughter was having trouble sleeping, so I sang her the Beatles Good Night. She got real quiet and drifted off, so I was quite proud of myself. A couple weeks later she had the same problem, so I started singing it again and she screamed "I hate that song! Why do you sing it?"