Songs for Naming Ceremony

Are you looking for baby dedication songs? Naming ceremony songs play a huge role in the celebration of your child’s birth. From gospel songs, soul and Motown. As a parent you want to make the right decision and choose the right music.

Music has the power to capture the feeling of parenthood. It’s a lovely way to welcome your child into the world. Conveying ones emotions can be difficult, even overwhelming at times. How do you share the joy of your new born?

Well, I’ll help you celebrate the beginning of a new life and greet your little one with soul songs, lullabies, and traditional gospel hymns. Mark the precious moment and add an extra touch to the birth of your child. Read on…

Naming Ceremony Songs For Parents

Naming ceremony songs help parents compile a birthing, labour or arrival playlist ©Pavel Danilyuk – Pexels

Which naming ceremony songs should you choose?

There are no set rules to choosing naming ceremony songs and baby dedication songs. As new parents you’re free to structure the playlist as you wish. The right naming ceremony songs, tunes and background music expresses your commitment, love and parental guidance.

Naming ceremony songs are an expression of joy, love and a fierce desire to protect your child. pexels-karolina-grabowska

Parents can communicate through music their true emotions and feelings about the arrival of a new member. Dedicate naming ceremony songs & love ballads to your (step) child, adopted child or foster child. Here are baby-friendly and background music open to all ages. Grandparents, guardians and godparents will love them, too.

Don’t Make Me Over by Dionne Warwick

Don’t make me over
Now that I’d do anything for you
Don’t make me over
Now that you know how I adore you

Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder

• My cherie amour, lovely as a summer day
• Isn’t she lovely?
• Knocks me off my feet

Beautiful Boy (Darling boy) by John Legend

Close your eyes
Have no fear
The monster’s gone
He’s on the run and your daddy’s here

My Boy Lollipop   by Millie Small

My boy Lollipop
You made my heart go giddy-up
You are as sweet as candy
You’re my sugar dandy

Morning Has Broken – Yusuf Islam

Morning has broken like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for them springing fresh from the world

Clair by Gilbert O’Sullivan

Clair
The moment I met you, I swear
I felt as if something, somewhere
Had happened to me
Which I couldn’t see

Your Song by Elton John

And you can tell everybody
This is your song
It may be quite simple, but now that it’s done
I hope you don’t mind
I hope you don’t mind
That I put down in the words
How wonderful life is while you’re in the world

‘The sweetest sound in the world is a person’s own name’. source: Dale Carnegie naming ceremony choir ©Lotta-Lagerberg

First time ever I saw your Face by Roberta Flack

The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave
To the dark and the endless skies, my love
To the dark and the endless skies

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by  Jane Taylor

Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are

Teach your children well by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Teach your children well
Their father’s hell did slowly go by
And feed them on your dreams
The one they pick’s the one you’ll know by

Summertime by Ella Fitzgerald

Summertime
And the livin’ is easy
Fish are jumpin’
And the cotton is high
Oh, your daddy’s rich
And your ma’ is good lookin’
So hush
Little baby
Don’t you cry

God Bless the Child by Billie Holiday

Mama may have, Papa may have
But God bless the child that’s got his own
That’s got his own

When a Child is Born by Johnny Mathis 

A ray of hope flickers in the sky

A tiny star lights up way up high

All across the land, dawns a brand new morn

This comes to pass when a child is born

Baby Love by Diana Ross

Baby love, my baby love
I need you, oh how I need you!
But now it is time for you to go off to school
It breaks my heart and leaves me sad
Tell me, you will be happy in your heart?
Don’t stay away so long BBK

Hush, Little Baby by King Singers

Hush, little baby, don’t say a word,
Papa’s gonna buy you a mockingbird.

And if that mockingbird don’t sing,
Papa’s gonna buy you a diamond ring.

 Miracle by Celine Dion

You’re my life’s one Miracle,
Everything I’ve done that’s good
And you break my heart with tenderness,
And I confess it’s true
I never knew a love like this till you…

When a Child Is Born by Johnny Mathis

A ray of hope flickers in the sky
A tiny star lights up way up high
All across the land, dawns a brand new morn
This comes to pass when a child is born

Baby Talk by Jan & Dean

She can not speak very well, everybody knows
But to me she sure looks swell in her baby clothes
I asked her if her love is true and she only goes (yeah)

Little Child by The Beatles

Little child, won’t you dance with me?
I’m so sad and lonely
Baby, take a chance with me

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Your Children – poem by Kahlil Gibran

“Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the make upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness.
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He also loves the bow that is stable.”
― Kahlil Gibran

Naming ceremony songs, lullaby’s & Nursery Rhymes: musical expression of a direct bond between parent and child. ©www.fischerfotografie.nl

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