Need a song

[arrogcow]

OK, completely off topic, but I need help.

I am about to have a son (in about a week). I have always sung lots of different songs to my daughter. I just realized that one song is really only appropriate for a girl, which is ok that just became "her" song. However, I now feel that I need a song that is special for my son, and for the life of me I can't come up with anything. Closest I can get is Cats in the Cradle, and I really would like a more up beat (theme not tempo).

Anyone got a suggestion. Think of a song that you imagine a father (or gender nutral parent) singing to a son. And let me know who does it, so if I don't know it, I can find a copy.

Adam

[cavscout]

Gi'me the beat boys and free my soul, I wanna get lost in the rock and roll and drift away...

[Shay]

I have a boy and girl, and I sing to both of 'em, too.

I sing Elton John's "This song's for you," or whatever the actual title is, to both my kids. The one that goes, "And you can tell everybody that this is your song, it may be quite simple but now that it's done, I hope you don't mind, (I hope you don't mind) that I put down in words... how wonderful life is, now you're in the world..." Always a nice sentiment, I think. LOL, Sir Elton was also a guy singing to another guy, though probably not the way you had in mind.

There's also a country song by George Strait, that has the lyrics: "Let me tell you a secret, about a father's love... a secret that my daddy said was just between us... Daddies don't just love their children every now and then, it's a love without end, aman." (Damn, I'm getting teary just thinking about it!)

My kids like upbeat songs- my son favors country, my daughter favors Broadway... I don't worry too much about the gender of the songs so much as whether it puts them to sleep- my oldest daughter would be out within a couple bars of "Uninvited' by Alanis Morrisette, my son's a sucker for "Part of Your World" from, of all things, the Little Mermaid.

[Southern Breeze]

Theres always the Barney song.

[bubba]

Theres always the Barney song.

You lookin ta git shot??

[Southern Breeze]

You lookin ta git shot??

I can't help it,I've still got Dreads version in my head.

[Dreadbelly]

I can't help it,I've still got Dreads version in my head.

I love you... You love me... Lift my, er wait a minute these are songs for children for crying out loud.

[chasem]

I always enjoyed hearing the song "Forever Young" sung to me by my father when I was little.

Edit: By Rod Stewart

[Schultz]

I always enjoyed hearing the song "Forever Young" sung to me by my father when I was little.

Edit: By Rod Stewart

Funny thing about the video for that song. Rod Stewart looks like he really likes the kid and is having the time of his life, when apparently the little boy was a terror on the set and Rod Stewart wanted to throw him off the truck.

Regardless, great song.

For some reason, I started singing "Jug of Punch" as sung by the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem to my son, and he loves it. It's a nice little ditty and the repetitious chorus ("Tora lora low, Tora lora lay") really calms and comforts him.

I always sang this to my nephew until my sister-in-law finally realized what it was about. So I changed to "Juice of the Barley" and told her I was a song about milking a cow and I was teaching him Gaelic.

That lasted for about a week.

[jfellrath]

I always sang this to my nephew until my sister-in-law finally realized what it was about. So I changed to "Juice of the Barley" and told her I was a song about milking a cow and I was teaching him Gaelic.

That lasted for about a week.

I sing Duncan "Whiskey in the Jar" every once in a while. I figure, my dad used to sing his old U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps drinking songs to me when I was a kid... and I turned out <hiccup> just fine.