Baby's Boat & Minka

Do you have a favorite lullaby that you sing or sang to your babies?  This happens to be the song I sing for Daniela.  It is not one I sang for my girls, nor do I know exactly where I first heard this song, but it popped into my head one day and it seemed to calm her down faster than any other.  So this is what I sing......

Baby's Boat

Baby's boat's a silver moon

Sailing o'er the sky

Sailing o'er a sea of sleep

As the stars go by.

Sail, baby, sail

Out across the sea

Only don't forget to sail

Back again to me.

Baby's fishing for a dream

Fishing near and far
His line a silver moonbeam is

His bait a silver star

If you find that dream so fair

Happy may it be

This will always be my prayer

May God watch over thee.

Sail, baby, sail

Out across the sea

Only don't forget to sail

Back again to me.

 

 

 

This I sang for my girls

 

Minka

Russian folk song

From the Volga I was riding

On my great horse nobly striding

When I saw a shadow hiding

Minka, charming Minka

Minka, Minka I have spied thee

Do not in the forest hide thee

On my great horse I will ride thee

Minka, charming Minka

We are not Russian and it wasn't passed down through the generations, that would make a great post, but really I bought a cassette from Wee Folks Sing and this was one of the songs on that cassette.