Nursery Playlist

I don't know the words to any lullabies. It's true. I'm familiar with them of course, but I couldn't finish the words to one if my life depended upon it. Christmas carols -- maybe.

When I was pregnant I decided to get around this not by (re)learning anything, but by finding a boom box that would play my iPod shuffle, and making a playlist of songs that I could actually sing along to. I have to say, it's worked like magic! I think Ada particularly likes Dave Matthews.

Here are some of the songs my babies are learning:

• Satellite, Gray Street (Dave Matthews)
• Mercy Street (Peter Gabriel)
• Come Away With Me (Nora Jones)
• Charade, You Don't Know Me, Save the Last Dance For Me (Harry Connick Jr.)
• I Wonder (Chris Isaak)
• Coat of Many Colors (Shania Twain)
• Blackbird (Sarah McLachlan)
• Hard Sun (Eddie Vedder)
• Angel Standing By (Jewel)
• Baby Grand, She's Always A Woman, New York State of Mind (Billy Joel)
• The Boxer, America, Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes (Paul Simon)
• Down in the River to Pray, Don't Leave Nobody But the Baby (O Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack)
• Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World (Israel Kamakawiwo'ole)
• Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley)
• Shelter From the Storm (Bob Dylan)