American Lullabies

Traditional songs to sing your little one to sleep — with lyrics, translations, meanings and easy chords.

American lullabies tell a double story. Some are travellers — melodies that crossed the ocean from Europe and grew up among the forests and plains of the New World, like Bye, Baby Bunting in New England or the Cajun Fais Do-Do in Louisiana — while others, like All the Pretty Little Horses, were born on American soil out of sorrow and turned into pure tenderness. And beneath them all run the oldest songs of the continent: the cradle chants of the Navajo, Cherokee, Lakota, Ojibwe, Hopi and Haida peoples, never written down, heard in the wind and the tide. On this page you will find them together — lyrics, meanings, stories and easy guitar and piano chords for every song.

Indigenous lullabies are part of a millennia-old oral heritage. The arrangements presented on the pages below are original reworkings, intended as a respectful tribute to the beauty and spirituality of these cultures.

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American Lullabies

All the Pretty Little Horses

Hush Little Baby

You Are My Sunshine

Bye, Baby Bunting

Fais Do-Do (Cajun)

Navajo Lullaby

Navajo Weaving Lullaby

Cherokee Lullaby

Cherokee Syllabary Lullaby

Lakota Lullaby

Black Hills Lullaby

Ojibwe Lullaby

Wild Rice Lullaby

Hopi Lullaby

Hopi Mesa Lullaby

Haida Lullaby

Haida Totem Lullaby

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