The Songs We Sing

Why is it that we sing the most unusual songs to our babies?  Maybe because they can't make fun of us yet?  Here are a few (I am embarrassed to say) I sing to Sam, often with customized words and choreographed motions.  I promise, all the others are Jesus songs.

• "Good Morning!" from the movie Singin' in the Rain
  
• "Close to You" by The Carpenters
  
• "Hey Little Playmate" nursery song
  
• "Baby Mine" from the movie Dumbo
  
• "Hey There, Lonely Girl" by Eddie Holman (instead, it's "Hey there, Sammy Boy")
  
• "Walk Like a Man" by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons
  
• "Could-Ya Would-Ya Aincha-Gonna If-I Asked-Ya Would-Ya Wanna BE MY Baby Tonight" by John Michael Montgomery
  
• "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls ("If you wanna be my Sammy...")
  
• "William Tell Overture" (including as many parts as we know, while Sam races until he's too out of breath to laugh any more)
  
• "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," the Guns N' Roses version ("Knock, knock, knockin' on Sammy's door, hey, hey, hey-hey, hey...")
  
• "We Want the Funk" by George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars
  
• "You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling" by The Righteous Brothers
  
• "Nasty Boys" by Janet Jackson (only during the most "interesting" diaper changes.  In truth, the only words I know are "doo-doo doodley-doo, nasty, nasty boy," but it seems to fit the occasion.)