Lullabies are one of my favourite forms of song as they  not only soothe the baby / toddler who receives this gift but also the frazzled parent at the end of the day! Playing lullabies on the guitar and singing them, I must say, is a wonderfully calming activity especially when life becomes stressful. 
The world today is a fast paced one for many parents, but it is still understood how valuable it is to sing softly to your young child at night.
It gives reassurance and comfort, helps build an affectionate relationship and hopefully eases that transition from daytime activities into sleep.
Sleep routines are so important for the developing brain and indeed the development of language. It enables a child to drift happily off into dreamland. Lullabies are up there with the bedtime story.
Not just for night time though! When your little one is having a meltdown or resisting a daytime sleep, sing a comforting lullaby to chase away their fretful tears and tantrums.

Most of the lullabies in my collections are ones I know or have written myself: Lullaby for a little bee – a wish, a prayer, a lullaby – YouTube  is my most recent. But it has been so wonderful discovering those from other lands, Suliram – a lovely lullaby from Indonesia – YouTube is a big favourite. And also beautiful ones others have written:

Lullabye / Like a ship in the harbor – a beautiful comforting lullaby – YouTube
Just a thought: While I was searching for a lullaby I realized several of my Christmas collection Songs for Christmas and Thanksgiving | River of song were naturally lullabies such as the classic ‘Away in a manger’.

“Singsong speech is critical for babies learning language” The Guardian Saturday 2nd 2023.
Singing to babies is vital to help them learn language, say scientists | Language | The Guardian
Parents should talk and sing to their babies as much as possible or use infant-directed speech like nursery rhymes because it will make a difference to language outcome.”

YouTube playlist: Lullabies

Website pages: A  B   C  D    E-F  G-H  K-L M  N-P  R  S  T  U-Z

In the lists below you will find links to:
‘River of song’ website pages for each song including lyrics, sheet music and chords plus a YouTube link to each song.

new are recent songs that can only be accessed on this website not on my old ‘Singing games for children’ one.
More links will be added as time permits especially where they are absent from my old website. Let me know if I need to give priority to music that you would appreciate.
**** Words and music by Dany Rosevear
Music by Dany Rosevear ♪♫ – only recently begun to add
Love this song: 💖 (Oh dear, I just realized I love most of these lullabies!!)

Lullabies A
A Bonny Boat Margaret Johnson ♪♫
YouTube PDF poem / hand play
A bushel and a peck
YouTube PDF Lavender Lane / St. Valentine’s Day
A candle, a candle
YouTube PDF
A great big smiling moon
YouTube PDF
A la nanita nana
YouTube PDF Spanish / Xmas
A little lovely dream ♪♫
YouTube PDF Hindu cradle song / poem
A sleepy song Czech folk song
YouTube PDF
A song of fairies
YouTube PDF lullaby / fairy folk
A star for you to wish on
YouTube PDF
A summer lullaby
YouTube PDF
Across the river of dreams **** 💖
YouTube PDF
Afton Water new
YouTube PDF Scottish folk song / poem
All the little ones are sleeping
YouTube PDF Jean Ritchie
All the pretty little horses
YouTube PDF folk lullaby
All the world is sleeping / Suo-Gân Welsh
YouTube PDF
All through the night
YouTube PDF
Ally bally bee or Coulter’s candy 💖
YouTube PDF Scottish lullaby / school’s radio
An Eriskay love lilt new
YouTube PDF Scotland / lullaby / love
At the gates of heaven /
La puerta del cielo Mexico
YouTube PDF

Lullabies B
Babes in the wood 🧡
YouTube PDFstory song
Baby mine
YouTube PDF
Baby chicks new
YouTube PDF Hispanic / lullaby / hand play
Baby beds
YouTube PDF
Baby bye, here’s a fly
YouTube PDF
Baby seed song
YouTube PDF Spring / lullaby / poem
Baby’s bed is a silver moon
YouTube PDF
Baloo baleerie
YouTube PDF Scotland
Barn sull / Child’s lullaby Scandinavian
YouTube PDF
Barnyard lullaby
YouTube PDF
Beautiful dreamer
YouTube PDF lullaby / Lavender lane
Bedtime
YouTube PDF
Big harvest moon
YouTube PDF Autumn / hand play
Bonny at morn
YouTube PDF Scotland
Bossy-cow, bossy-cow
YouTube PDF
Brahms’ lullaby
YouTube PDF Germany
Bratton Clovelly lullaby / Lullay, my dear
YouTube PDF
Bye, bye, baby, baby bye
YouTube PDF

Lullabies C
Castle of Dromore / October winds 💖
YouTube PDF Irish folk song / Autumn
Clap your tiny hands 💖
YouTube PDF Xmas / lullaby / Jamaica
Come little bunny
YouTube PDF
Come little leaves 💖
YouTube PDF Autumn / colour / seasonal
Come to the window 💖 ♪♫
YouTube PDF
Connemara cradle song Irish
YouTube PDF
Coorie Doon 💖
YouTube PDF Scottish lullaby / folk song
Cotton-eyed Joe
YouTube PDF Tennessee lullaby
Curoo, curoo (Carol of the birds)
YouTube PDF a lullaby / Xmas / Irish
Ally bally bee or Coulter‘s candy 💖
YouTube PDF Scottish lullaby
Counting sheep
YouTube PDF
Counting stars and sheep
(The mystic number)
YouTube PDF
Cradle song / Bye low, bye low
YouTube PDF
Creep to the window
YouTube PDF
Curoo, curoo (Carol of the birds)
YouTube PDF birds / Xmas / Irish
Cushlamochree Gaelic
YouTube PDF

Lullabies D
Daisies
YouTube PDF
Dance, dance baby
YouTube PDF baby / toddler play
Day and night
YouTube PDF
Dear little Olé Denmark
YouTube PDF
Deep blue sea 💖
YouTube PDF better world songs
Do you know how many little stars?
YouTube PDF
Dormi, dormi bel bambino Italian
YouTube PDF Christmas carol lullaby
Dors, dors, p’tit bébé 
YouTube PDF Cajun lullaby
Douglas Mountain
YouTube PDF
Down in the valley
YouTube PDF
Down with the lambs
YouTube PDF
Dream a little dream of me
YouTube PDF
Dream passes by
YouTube PDF a Ukrainian lullaby
Dreamland opens here / A Louisiana lullaby
YouTube PDF
Duermete, Niño lindo / O sleep my little baby
YouTube  PDF Xmas / Mexico

Lullabies E
Earth child ****
YouTube PDF
El coqui /The tree frog 💖
YouTube PDF Puerto Rico lullaby
Evening is a little boy / Small song
YouTube PDF
Lullabies F
Fa la nana bambino Italian 💖
YouTube PDF
Fais dodo French
YouTube PDF
Father’s gone to sea
YouTube PDF
Far in the wood 💖
YouTube PDF enchanted lullaby
Flower’s lullaby
YouTube PDF summer / hand play / lullaby

Lullabies G
Gaelic lullaby new
YouTube PDF Scotland weather
Go row the boat child West Indies
YouTube PDF
Go to sleep, go to sleepy
YouTube PDF
Go to sleep my baby
YouTube PDF
Go to sleepy little baby
YouTube PDF
Golden slumbers 💖
YouTube PDF
Goodnight, beloved mine
YouTube PDF
Goodnight children
YouTube PDF
Goodnight Mr. Moon
YouTube PDF
Goodnight to the moon ****
YouTube PDF
Goodnight, sweet dreams
YouTube PDF
Goodnight to you all new
YouTube PDF round / transition
Great big stars
YouTube PDF
Greensleeves
YouTube PDF

Lullabies H
Hello, lovely moon ****
YouTube PDF
Here comes the sandman new
YouTube PDF
Here is a little child new
YouTube PDF hand play / lvery young
Here we go down, down daisy
YouTube PDF lap play / for the very young
Hey, little crow Lithuania
YouTube PDF
Highland cradle song
YouTube PDF Scottish lullaby
Highland fairy lullaby!
YouTube PDF Scottish
Ho ho watanay 💖
YouTube PDF Canadians First Nation lullaby
Hobo’s lullaby 💖
YouTube PDF
Honey spread on brown brown bread
YouTube PDF bees / colour / Czech / food
Hush now my darling
YouTube PDF
Hush-a-ba, birdie
YouTube PDF Scottish
Hushabye my bear cubs
YouTube PDF
Hush a bye my little crumb Cornish
YouTube PDF
Hush, baby, hush new
YouTube PDF lullaby Jamaica
Hush, hush little baby / Evening
YouTube PDF
Hush little baby / The mockingbird
YouTube PDF BBC radio ‘Singing Together’
Hush little Minnie
YouTube PDF
Lullabies I

I know where I’m going
YouTube PDF Irish folk song
I see the moon
YouTube PDF
I will hang the cradle
YouTube PDF Ukraine
If I were and elfin
YouTube PDF
I’ll sing to your baby / Zolst azoy lebn Yiddish
YouTube PDF
I’m a bird, I sing my song
YouTube PDF
I’ve found my bonny babe a nest
YouTube PDF

Lullabies K
Kalinka Russia 💖
YouTube PDF
Kentucky Babe
YouTube PDF Lavender Lane
Khasi’s lullaby Himalayas
YouTube PDF
Kitty alone (1)
YouTube PDF
Kitty alone (2)
YouTube PDF
Kotikoo, my grey cat
YouTube PDF Ukrainian folk lullaby
Kumbaya ya
YouTube PDF Liberia / campfire
Lullabies L
Lady, lady
YouTube PDF
Lady Moon new
YouTube PDF poem
Last night I had the strangest dream 🕊️
YouTube PDF peace / lullaby / folk / community
Let me call you sweetheart
YouTube  PDF Lavender Lane
Let your little wings fly ****
YouTube PDF
Like a ship in the harbor 💖
YouTube PDF lullaby
Little bear sleeps
YouTube PDF
Little bird on my window 💖
YouTube PDF birds / whistling/ Irish lullaby
Little children / Mozart’s lullaby
YouTube PDF
Little lost angel
YouTube PDF
Little red bird Manx
YouTube PDF
Little silver moon
YouTube PDF China
Los pollitos dicen / Hear the little chicks
YouTube PDF action rhyme / Spanish / birds
Lulla, lulla Russian
YouTube PDF
Lulla lullaby / A la rurru nino Mexico
YouTube PDF xmas
Lullaby for a baby elephant Denmark
YouTube PDF
Lullaby for a little bee ****
YouTube PDF
Lullaby loo, lullaby li ****
YouTube PDF
Lullabye / Like a ship in the harbor
YouTube PDF

Lullabies M
Magic and moonbeams ****
YouTube PDF
Mama loves, papa loves
YouTube PDF
Mama’s gone to the mailboat
YouTube PDF
Mammy, mammy told me-o
YouTube PDF
Manx lullaby
YouTube PDF
Maranoa lullaby
YouTube PDF Australian / Schools radio
Mary’s lullaby new
YouTube PDF a lullaby / Xmas carol
Moon glow, moon glow
YouTube PDF
Moon, moon, shiny and silver
YouTube PDF Schools TV
Moon shining bright
YouTube PDF
Moon River
YouTube PDF a lullaby and love song
Morag’s cradle song
YouTube PDF Scottish
Mother Goose lullaby
YouTube PDF nursery rhyme
Mozart’s lullaby / Sleep, little one
YouTube PDF
My friend the moon new ****
YouTube PDF a lullaby
My owlet Native American
YouTube PDF
My rocket ship
YouTube PDF

Lullabies N
Nature’s goodnight
YouTube PDF
Nature’s lullaby
YouTube PDF
Night is here Cherokee lullaby
YouTube PDF
Nina bobo Philippines
YouTube PDF
North Eastern cradle song
YouTube PDF China
Norwegian cradle song
YouTube PDF
Now the day is over
YouTube PDF
Now the sun is sinking
YouTube PDF
Numbering the fingers
YouTube PDF
Lullabies O
O can ye sew cushions new
YouTube PDF Scottish cradle song
O ladybird
YouTube PDF
Oh, Mother how pretty the
moon looks tonight
YouTube PDF
Old Mother Glasco
YouTube PDF
Onawa’s waltz
YouTube PDF
Only the moon man knows 💖
YouTube PDF lullaby / poem
Oro, my little boat 💖
YouTube PDF Irish lullaby
Over the river to Charlie
YouTube PDF
Owl moon
YouTube PDF
Owl’s lullaby 💖
YouTube PDF Hawaii / birds
Lullabies P
Peek-a-boo baby
YouTube PDF baby play / lullaby
Peek-a-boo! Moon ****
YouTube PDF
Peruvian slumber song
YouTube PDF
Pimpón 
YouTube PDF Mexican lullaby
Lullabies R
Raisins and almonds Israel
YouTube PDF
Rock gently sailboat Israel Summer
YouTube PDF
Rock me easy
YouTube PDF
Rock-a-bye baby
YouTube PDF
Rock-a-bye my little owlet
YouTube PDF
Rock-a-bye you 💖
YouTube PDF lullaby
Rockaby lullaby
YouTube PDF
Rockin’ by the baby
YouTube PDF
Rocking carol
YouTube PDF Czech Christmas lullaby
Russian cradle song
YouTube PDF
Russian lullaby
YouTube PDF

Lullabies S
Sail away, ladies
YouTube PDF
Seal lullaby Rudyard Kipling ♪♫
YouTube PDF poem
Shosheen sho Celtic
YouTube PDF
Sing a song at twilight
YouTube PDF
Sing a song of bedtime ****
YouTube PDF
Sleep, baby, sleep
YouTube PDF
Sleep, little seed ****
YouTube PDF
Sleep, my little one, sleep
YouTube PDF
Sleep-o little owlet new
YouTube PDF Kwakuitl / cradle song / Canada / bird
Sleep, O sleep
YouTube PDF
Sleepy, sleepy eyes ****
YouTube PDF
Slumber in Spring
YouTube PDF
Slumber, my little one
YouTube PDF
Softly canary sings a song /
Yurikago no uta Japanese
YouTube PDF
Softly, softly rock
YouTube PDF Xmas carol
Starlight, star bright
YouTube PDF
Stars and daisies
YouTube PDF
Stars of the summer night
YouTube PDF
Stars shining
YouTube PDF
Stella stellina new
YouTube PDF Italian nursery rhyme
Such a beautiful thing **** 💖
YouTube PDF better world
Suliram 💖
YouTube PDF Indonesian lullaby
Summertime
YouTube PDF
Sweep away
YouTube PDF a Creole lullaby
Sweet and low Alfred Tennyson
YouTube PDF a lullaby and poem

Lullabies T

Tell me, tell me, tell me why
YouTube PDF ****
Tell me why the stars do shine 💖
YouTube PDF a lullaby
That’s an Irish lullaby 💖
YouTube PDF a lullaby
The dolphins’ lullaby new ****
YouTube PDF summer, better world
The dream fairy Thomas Hood ♪♫
YouTube PDF a lullaby and poem
The Earth is your Mother
YouTube PDF better world / Native American / poem / lullaby
The fairies’ lullaby
YouTube PDF poem / William Shakespeare
The golden day is dying
YouTube PDF
The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry
YouTube PDF folk song / Scottish islands
The Israeli boat song
YouTube PDF
The Lady Moon up yonder
YouTube PDF
The man in the moon
YouTube PDF
The moon’s song
YouTube PDF
The nesting hour
YouTube PDF
The little sandman / Brahm’s lullaby
YouTube PDF
The little white boat Korean
YouTube PDF
The moon and the stars
YouTube PDF
The moon shines down ****
YouTube PDF
The mouse’s lullaby
YouTube PDF
The Skye boat song
YouTube PDF school days / Scottish
The spinning wheel /
Mellow the moonlight
YouTube PDF
The star are hiding
YouTube PDF hand play
The starlighter
YouTube PDF
The white hen’s cradle song
YouTube PDF
Three white gulls / Le tre colombe
YouTube PDF Italian
Time for bed
YouTube PDF
Time for man go home Trinidad
YouTube PDF transition / community
To Babyland
YouTube PDF
To the moon and back new ****
YouTube PDF Summer / the very young
Turn around
YouTube PDF
Twinkle twinkle little star
YouTube PDF

Lullabies U-Y
Up the wooden hill
YouTube PDF
Upstairs to fairyland
YouTube PDF BBC radio in 1928 / lullaby / fairies
Wake up little sparrow
YouTube PDF
Waltz round the moon ****
YouTube PDF nursery rhymes / music
Way up high in the cherry tree
YouTube PDF a hand play
Way up in the sky
YouTube PDF birds / Spring / action play / lullaby / community
Weave a web of sunshine new ****
YouTube PDF better world / action play / weather
Welcome little stranger ****
YouTube PDF songs for a better world
Where do you sleep?
YouTube PDF
Which is the way the wind blows?
YouTube PDF Dutch cradle song
Winkum, winkum 💖
YouTube PDF a lullaby
Warm kitty, soft kitty
YouTube PDF
Where should a baby rest?
YouTube PDF
Wishing star ♪♫
YouTube PDF a lullaby for the very young
Yea ho, little fish
YouTube PDF Cape Verde lullaby