BEDSIDE SONG LIST



BEDSIDE SONG LIST

compiled by Cathy DeWitt,

Older Generation (65+):

Bill Bailey

Let me Call You Sweetheart

Down by the Old Mill Stream

*Shine on Harvest Moon

*Daisy, Daisy (Bicycle Built for Two)

Side by Side

Show tunes: Sunny Side of the Street, Try to Remember, As Time Goes By, etc

Singalongs (Almost) Everyone Knows:

You Are My Sunshine

Row Row Row Your Boat

Make New Friends (but Keep the Old)

This Land Is Your Land

Dream, Dream, Dream

Michael Row the Boat Ashore

Home on the Range

Day-O

Show tunes: Somewhere Over the Rainbow, O’ What a Beautiful Mornin’, Summertime

Children’s Songs:

Baby Beluga

Barney Theme Song (formerly known as This Old Man)

Froggie Went a Courtin’

Goin’ to the Zoo

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Eensy Weeensy (Itsy Bitsy) Spider

How Much is that Doggie in the Window?

*Oh Susannah

*Old MacDonald Had a Farm

The Teddy Bears’ Picnic

*The Wheels on the Bus

Religious Songs:

*Amazing Grace

*Down by the Riverside

In the Garden

He-ne-ma-tov-u-ma-na-eem (Jewish)

*Will the Circle be Unbroken

I’ll Fly Away

*Angels Watchin’ Over Me

*He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands

*I Saw the Light

Old Hippie Favorites (for Baby Boomers, 50s & 60s music):

*Blowin’ in the Wind

Blackbird, With a Little Help from my Friends, Let it Be (or anything Beatles)

Scarborough Fair/Sounds of Silence

Get Together

Poison Ivy

Moon River

*Helplessly Hoping

*If I Had a Hammer

*Peaceful Easy Feelin’ (or other Eagles)

You’ve Got a Friend (or other Carole King)

Sweet Baby James (or other James Taylor)

*Mustang Sally

*My Girl (other Motown, R & B)

Twist and Shout

Country/Western:

*Jambalaya

Your Cheatin’ Heart

*Mountain Dew

*Country Roads Take me Home

*My Grandfather’s Clock

Keep on the Sunny Side

*New River Train

*Old Joe Clark

Long Black Veil

Man of Constant Sorrow

Red River Valley

The Tennessee Waltz

Ethnic Songs:

Edelweiss

Frere Jacques

*Jamaica Farewell

Shalom Chaverim

Erev Shel Sho sha nim

Kookabura

*Kumbaya

*Tie Me Kangaroo Down

Cockles and Mussels

Funiculi Funicula

*Cielito Lindo

La Bamba

Sakura

Tumbalalaika

* denotes good for group singalong, easy to make up new words or extra verses to, etc.

Sometimes you might need to change a word here or there—use your intuition!

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