Childrens Nursery Songs

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Childrens nursery songs could be lullabies, nursery rhymes put to music...although some create their own music...try saying Jack and Jill and you can't help singing it, bus songs or specially written nursery songs such as those by J W Elliot who churned out lots in Victorian timesIn a moment you can read the best of all Childrens Nursery Songs that I made up as a lullaby for my kids which I had to sing twice nightly at least, once at least to my son and once at least to my daughter, for several years until they were old enough to realise that their daddy couldn't sing. (Forgive that moment of immodesty at the beginning of this paragraph but it was so that I could use the plural Childrens nursery songs since that is the search term I'm chasing. And it wasn't false modesty at the end of the paragraph because I am indeed a lousy singer)

I said made up rather than wrote because until recently it never was written down..I just made it up as I went along singing to the tune of Edelweiss for the beginning and end bit and Mary's Boy Child for the middle chunk. That sounds like a plan but it just emerged..I started with one tune and drifted unknowingly into another. It was many years later before I figured out which tunes I was singing. Anyway I can recommend these two tunes...they're very effective as lullabies

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Special Lullaby

(This first bit to the tune of Edelweiss)

Close your eyes, close your eyes

You'll get a nice sur-prise

You won't have long to wait

Until you reach the wooden gate

That leads into the garden

The Garden of All Dreams

No, you won't have long to wait

Until you have your dreams

(now switch to Mary's Boy Child)

In the Garden of All Dreams

There's lots of girls and boys

And you can play and share with them

All your cuddly toys

In the Garden of All Dreams

You'll have a lovely time

For you can play with all your friends

From your Nursery Rhymes

Look there's little Jack and Jill

And Humpty Dumpty too

And Mary with her litle lamb

And Little Boy Blue

In the Garden of All Dreams

There's lollipops on trees

And animals and little birds

Playing in the breeze

In the Garden of All Dreams

You can watch the flowers grow

With silver bells and cockle shells

And pretty maids in a row

(back to Edelweiss)

Close your eyes, close your eyes

You'll get a nice sur-prise

You won't have long to wait

Until you reach the wooden gate

That leads into the garden

The Garden of All Dreams

No, you won't have long to wait

Until.....you have.....your dreams

Jon Bratton © 1977 Dedicated to Gary and Lesley

This is free for you to use (please tell me if it worked for you), and indeed record, but if you make any money you'll have to pay royalties, per the industry norm to the copyright holder Jon Bratton

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