Pick the Songs

I sing poorly, but a crying kid will get you to try anything. At first, I used the classics. But soon row row row your boat and hush a bye baby were gnawing at my soul.

One car trip I was running out of ideas, and gave a shot at whistling the theme song to Super Mario Bros, and the Water World music. Hey, why stop there? Portal's Still Alive came to mind, and was actually not mind numbingly simple.

So I thought of what other songs would be enough to keep me from degrading further mentally, but were simple enough that even I could sing them. The current top songs:

• The Big Rock Candy Mountains
• Yellow Submarine
• When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again
• Puff the Magic Dragon
• Oh Danny Boy
• Cleveland Lounge Drowning

Some are still on the children's songs side of things, but at least have verses. Others are probably not typical for kids, but Still Alive and Drowning get more requests than you might think.

The moral: kids will love whatever songs you're happy to sing, so pick songs you'll enjoy singing.