Singing My Song, Even if it sounds terrible. Options

[voices_in_my_hea...]

As I've become an Auntie recently, I've been having to dig into my archive of songs I know that are fun to sing, so that I can get the little one to sleep when her mama isn't able to.

So, What is a song that you love to sing? What songs do you love to sing just because you think they're flattering to your voice? If you had to sing a baby to sleep, what song would you choose? Is there a certain song you always find yourself singing in certain situations? A go-to favourite that you sing in the shower or while doing dishes?

For me, I sing Go To Sleep Little Baby from O' Brother, Where Art Thou? when trying to get Scarlett to calm down. I sing Lean on Me at work when I try to start a fast-food sing along. And when I'm by myself and in a singing mood, I go to Hallelujah. And I'd have to say I choose all of them because I have a very deep voice and none of those songs have any super-high notes that I'd have to strain to hit. I sing them just because I think they make my voice, as untrained as it may be, sound decent.

So

What about you?

[Industrial Kybos...]

Go To Sleep Little Baby from O' Brother, Where Art Thou?

Oooh, choice. Gorgeous tune.

I have a voice made for bellowing, so singing children to sleep is not my forte. Get me on Faith No More or Metallica, though, and yer in for a treat. My club-style James Hetfield impersonation has had them rolling in the aisles of the inns of Staffordshire.

If we're talking karaoke, though, my tune of choice is 'Red Alert' by Basement Jaxx. If you ain't heard it sung in the manner of a drunken male crooner, you ain't heard it PERIOD.