Spending the night singing

[jbailey]

I assume that I was sung songs when I was little, but I don't really remember them. I do remember my mom singing "You are my sunshine" to me (but only the chorus, as she thought the first verse was too sad. I'm glad that she never heard the remaining creepy stalker verses from the O Brother soundtrack). Angie will sing lullabies that she remembers, but she's the oldest of three kids, whereas I'm the youngest of two by five years.

So all this to explain why at 4am I was singing Leif to sleep with songs from The Dances of Universal Peace. Walking in circles singing them reminded me that I haven't been to the dances in a while. They're on the second Tuesday of the month here in Montréal.

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[csext.livejournal.com]

apparently when i was young my mom didn't know much in the way of lullabies, so she sang all her old hippie songs until she thought i was old enough to understand. lots of drug references she says. i don't think we did much singing later one, once my younger brothers were born. thanks for reminding me that my future family to be more song-filled

[jbailey.livejournal.com]

what I've really enjoyed about the DfUP songs is that at 3am I don't have to come up with new songs at the end of one. And I *like* singing rounds for 15 or 20 minutes at a time while spinning in circles ;)