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LULLABIES
They're the first songs we remember from childhood - a link between generations. Click below to hear lullabies from around the world - then add your own.

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1 Kuwa

2 Obrigada papaid do ceu

3 Gopal Nu Paranu

4 My Dear One

5 Picking Up Frogs

6 Ah-La-Lu-La-Lu-La-Lu

7 Lori

8 Boi da Cara Preta

9 Duermete Mi Nino

10 Habe Baleju O Duliki

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This chart is compiled in partnership with Radio 4's .

Read a about a lullaby ritual for childless couples in Leicester's Jain temple.
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AYISHA YAHYA

CARLA DI BONITO

PRAMILLA CHAUHAN

LARISSA

YEE YEE AUNG

SAEEDA MAHMMOOD

SUE ARNOLD

AMERICO MARTINS

PILAR BOETTI

KADARIA AHMED




Lullaby: My Dear One
Language: Russian
Country of origin: Russia
Chosen by: Larissa


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My name is Larissa. I’m Russian and I’m from the Urals originally which is North East from Moscow. Let’s say, it’s just before Siberia starts.

The song which I used to sing to my daughter a long time ago, is not a lullaby but a song which could be used for a lullaby because it’s a very slow and monotonous but the context is the major attraction to me. It’s a dialogue between a peasant woman and a soldier who was fighting against the French at the beginning of the 19th century fighting during the Russian French war.

They met each other while he was fighting not far from the village where she was from - and they fell in love. His military unit is moving away from the village, and she’s saying to him: ‘Please take me with you and I’ll be your wife wherever you will go’. He says, ‘I’m sorry. I love you very much but I’ve got a wife,’ and so she says, ‘Please take me with you and I’ll be your sister.’ And he says, ‘I’m sorry, I love you very much, but I have a sister.’ And she says to him, ‘Please take me with you. I will be a stranger’ to which he replies, ‘Well I’m sorry, I love you very much but I don’t need a stranger.’

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