My mum would sig that to us when we were little and when I had my baby two years ago, I couldn’t think of a single lullaby except for my distant memory of that song, so I sang it even though I figured I probably had it all wrong. When my baby was three months old, my parents flew across the world to visit for a month to meet their new grandson. One day my mum said she’d put the little guy down for his nap and I gratefully accepted and just lay on the bed while she sat in the chair rocking him and singing that song. I realized- as I drifted off to sleep at the same time as my son to the old tune- that I actually had gotten it just right, even after forty-two years,

so fun!!