The Best 35 Baby Shower Songs You’ll Actually Enjoy
Have you ever been to a get-together at someone’s house where they don’t have music playing in the background?
And then the lull comes.
It’s super quiet and no one’s saying anything, so you stare at the floor. You glance up real quick, but the lull continues, so you look down at your lap. Still no one’s saying anything, and you can sense everyone else’s eyeballs trying to settle on the least awkward thing, and you find yourself focusing on that weird stain on the kitchen counter that looks kind of like a uterus.
This is why you need music.
Add to that the unique brand of uncomfortableness that a baby shower brings with those blasted games, oohing-and-aahing at every boring gift, and the lack of alcohol – and did I mention the games? – and you REALLY need a baby shower playlist.
But Here’s the Problem With Most Baby Shower Playlists
I helped plan a baby shower recently, and my job was to provide the official baby shower playlist. But when I searched online, the baby shower songs I found consisted of:
- Songs with “baby” in the title, or
- Saccharine sweet kids’ music
The first approach gives you Baby Got Back†, and the second makes the attendees gag. Not to mention the guest of honor. That new mama has years of cheesy kids’ music ahead of her – why subject her to it earlier than necessary?
The Best 35 Baby Shower Songs You’ll Actually Enjoy
So I put together a new and improved baby shower playlist: These baby shower songs have sweet lyrics without being gag-worthy.
Since I first created this playlist, dozens of friends and neighbors have used this same playlist for baby showers they planned, and they’ve all reported back that the music was a crowd-pleaser for expectant moms, grandmas-to-be, and childless friends alike.
This playlist will give you hours of tunes to combat the baby shower awkwardness – so you can spend your free time figuring out which newborn must haves or funny baby shower gifts you’ll be getting your friend.
You may even find yourself listening to this playlist well after the baby shower – I did!
Note: Unlike other baby shower playlists you might find out there, this one features upbeat tunes appropriate for a party or get-together. For example, while the lyrics of Sade’s “The Sweetest Gift” are lovely, the slow pace would lull your guests to sleep, so you won’t find it in this list.
1. We’re Going to Be Friends by The White Stripes
Fall is here, hear the yell
Back to school, ring the bell
Brand new shoes, walking blues
Climb the fence, books and pens
I can tell that we’re going to be friends
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
2. Race You by Elizabeth & The Catapult
‘Cause there’s dirt on my skirt and pebbles stuck in my toes
Oh, which way should we go down
Nobody knows, nobody knows
I’m gonna race you back home
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
3. Beautiful Day by U2
It’s a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It’s a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
4. Count on Me by Bruno Mars
If you ever find yourself stuck in the middle of the sea
I’ll sail the world to find you
If you ever find yourself lost in the dark and you can’t see
I’ll be the light to guide you…If you’re tossin’ and you’re turnin’
And you just can’t fall asleep
I’ll sing a song beside you
And if you ever forget how much you really mean to me
Every day I will remind you
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
5. Sweet Pea by Amos Lee
Sweet pea
Apple of my eye
Don’t know when and I don’t know why
You’re the only reason I keep on coming home
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
6. The Littlest Birds by The Be Good Tanyas
Well, I love you so dearly, I love you so clearly
I wake you up in the morning, so early just to tell you…
The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
7. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da by The Beatles
In a couple of years they have built a home, sweet home
With a couple of kids running in the yard
Of Desmond and Molly Jones
Happy ever after in the market place
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
8. Haven’t Met You Yet by Michael Buble
I might have to wait, I’ll never give up
I guess it’s half timing, and the other half’s luck
Wherever you are, whenever it’s right
You’ll come out of nowhere and into my life
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
9. All Smiles by Jess Penner
Hands full of lemon drops all dissapear
All lips like children, the voices we hear
They’re all smiles, they’re all smiles, they’re all smiles
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
10. Upside Down by Jack Johnson
I want to turn the whole thing upside down
I’ll find the things they say just can’t be found
I’ll share this love I find with everyone
We’ll sing and dance to Mother Nature’s songs
I don’t want this feeling to go away
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
11. New Soul by Yael Naim
I’m a young soul in this very strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit bout what is true and fake
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
12. The One Who Loves You the Most by Brett Dennen
When the sky is falling from above you
And the wind is raging from the coast
And you want someone who truly loves you
I will be the one who loves you the most
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
13. Baby by Devendra Banhart
Like some hog-tied kangaroos
You be one and I’ll be one too
We play it goofy, or we play it cool
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
14. Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
I hear babies cry and I watch them grow,
They’ll learn much more
Than we’ll know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
15. The Lucky Ones by Tim Myers
Lately I’ve been smiling outside
I feel good, I feel light as a feather
Open up the window look out at the sky
Everything’s better
Ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah
We’re the lucky ones
Listen: Apple Music
16. Yellow by Coldplay
Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you,
And everything you do,
Yeah, they were all yellow
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
17. Home by Phillip Phillips
Hold on to me as we go
As we roll down this unfamiliar road
And although this wave is stringing us along
Just know you’re not alone
Cause I’m gonna make this place your home
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
18. Thank You by Mozella
You fight off my enemies
You’d take a bullet for me
And you know I’d do the same for you
‘Cause that’s how we roll
Connected at the soul
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
19. Overwhelmed by Tim McMorris
From the first time I saw you
I knew that you’d be mine
And from the first glance you gave
My world it slowed, you stopped the time
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
20. Never Grow Up by Taylor Swift
Your little hand’s wrapped around my finger
And it’s so quiet in the world tonight
Your little eyelids flutter cause you’re dreaming
So I tuck you in, turn on your favorite night light
To you everything’s funny, you got nothing to regret
I’d give all I have, honey
If you could stay like that
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
21. Brave by Sara Bareilles
“Say what you wanna say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave
With what you want to say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave”
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
22. Ho Hey by The Lumineers
“I belong with you
You belong with me
You’re my sweetheart”
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
23. 1234 by Feist
“One, two, three, four
Tell me that you love me more
Sleepless long nights
That is what my youth was for”
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
24. You Are the Best Thing by Ray LaMontagne
“Oh because, you are the best thing
You are the best thing
You are the best thing
Ever happened to me”
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
25. Lucky by Kat Edmonson
“Happiness
Feels like this
Your heart upon your sleeve
There’s a place,
In time and space,
We can all be free”
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
26. Fireflies by Owl City
“I’d like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
It’s hard to say that I’d rather stay awake when I’m asleep
Because my dreams are bursting at the seams”
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
27. Heaven by Brandi Carlile
“When you’re lyin’ here in my arms
I’m findin’ it hard to believe
We’re in heaven”
Listen: Apple Music
28. I’m Yours by Jason Mraz
“Look into your heart and you’ll find love, love, love, love.
Listen to the music of the moment, people dance and sing, we’re just one big family
And it’s our God-forsaken right to be loved, loved, loved, loved, loved”
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
29. Beauty in the World by Macy Gray
“Stop and smell the flowers
And lose it the sweet music and dance with me
There is beauty in the world
So much beauty in the world”
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
30. The Best Day by Taylor Swift
“Past the pumpkin patch
And the tractor rides
Look now – the sky is gold
I hug your legs and fall asleep
On the way home”
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
31. First Day of My Life by Bright Eyes
“Yours is the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
Now I don’t know where I am
I don’t know where I’ve been
But I know where I want to go”
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
32. What I Wouldn’t Do by A Fine Frenzy
“If we were children I would bake you a mud pie
Warm and brown beneath the sun
Never learned to climb a tree but I would try
Just to show you what I’d done”
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
33. Far Away by Ingrid Michaelson
“I will bear three girls all with strawberry curls, little Ella and Nelly and Faye
While I’m combing their hair, I will catch his warm stare
On our island in the blue bay”
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
34. Just the Way You Are by Bruno Mars
“And when you smile
The whole world stops and stares for a while
‘Cause, girl, you’re amazing
Just the way you are”
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
35. Who’s My Pretty Baby? by Elizabeth Mitchell
“Who’ll be my little man
Who’ll be my nice lady
Who’ll be my funny little buddy
Hey hey pretty babe”
Listen: Apple Music | Amazon Music
Related: The Newborn Must Haves That Will Make Your Baby Happy (And You, Too)
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Your Turn
Which songs would you add to the perfect baby shower playlist? Share your picks in a comment below!
This is an awesome playlist! I couldn’t find some of them yet but I’m looking forward to listening to them all. I think they’ll be a hit at my friends shower. Thanks for sharing! :)
Nicole, I’m so glad you enjoyed the list! Just let me know if you need any help tracking any of them down. :-)
Excellent idea.I want to do this for my niece’s baby shower. How did you actually copy the songs to play? Did you use an MP3 player!
I’d like to add “How Sweet it Is” by James Taylor. Such a great song!
Lisa, that’s such a great suggestion! I was just singing that to my baby girl the other day. Thanks for stopping by to share that one. :-)
Puff the magic dragon by Peter Paul and Mary
Shelby, thanks for that recommendation! That’s a good one. :-)
Lenka- The Show
Phil Collins- Strangers Like Me
Thanks for a great list!
Je, I *adore* The Show by Lenka. Great suggestion!
This is just what I didn’t know I was looking for, haha! Thank you for sharing!
Aubrey, my pleasure! I just love all these songs, so it makes me happy to share them. :-)
Britney Spears’ song My Baby is a really lovely song as well or even Someday (I Will Understand) which is by her as well.
Brittany, thank you for the recommendation! I will give those a listen right now. :-)
I love this list I am definitely using it for the baby shower I am planning next week. Thank you so much :)
Phil Collins – You’ll Be in My Heart
I sung this song throughout my pregnancy to my little man.
Araceli, I’m so glad to hear this list was useful to you in your shower planning! I love that you sang the same song to your little guy while you were pregnant. And what a sweet song! The song I’ve always sung to Bailey is much less inventive – Hush Little Baby. :-)
mamas song by carrie underwood makes me think of my sweet little girl growing up
Scarlett, what a sweet suggestion. Thank you!
Was making a list of my own and needed some more ideas, and your playlist is exactly what I’m going for. A few I already had (some not as contemporary as others, but I still dig ’em):
The Mamas and Papas rendition of Dream a Little Dream is my favorite. I sing it to my stinker bell every night.
Ray Lamontagne- Hold You in My Arms
Ronettes- Be My Baby
Elton John- Your Song
Amy, thank you for adding more to our ongoing list! Also, I just love that you call your little one stinkerbelle. I use that one too! :-)
This is a wonderful list! I am helping to plan a baby shower for My son and someday daughter-in-law(hopefully) and came upon this. They will love it, thank you!
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Michelle, I hope the baby shower went well! I’m happy to have helped a small bit. :-)
love this list, thanks so much, I was just sitting down to make a list for my sister’s shower and I found your list first. Perfect
Tabitha, I’m so glad the list was helpful for you!
Great list. Thank you so much for posting it. I am going to use every song you listed.
Kat, I’m happy you enjoyed it! I’d love to hear how the baby shower goes. :-)
wow! best baby shower playlist i’ve seen yet! thanks so much! fantastic!
What a sweet comment! So glad to hear you enjoyed it! :-)
Add Stevie Wonder’s “Isn’t She Lovely”. Beautiful song.
Kim, yes! That one is so beautiful. Thank you for adding your pick to the list!
great post! thanks!
You did an awesome job with this playlist!! I so love this list!! I will be using it as well! Thank you so much for sharing!!
I agree – this is the list I didn’t know I was looking for! Thank you so much for putting this together!Other playlists were too cheesy for me. I added a few:
Feist – 1234, Mushaboom
Jack Johnson – Better Together, Angel, Lullabye
Edward Sharpe – Home
Michael Buble – Dream a Little Dream
But I only thought of these after your inspiration! Thanks again!
Banana Pancakes by Jack Johnson always reminds me of my kids. :)
Here’s a song just released on iTunes in November: “Father Daughter Song It’s Your World” by yours truly, Jimmy Wendt. Rockin’ upbeat song dedicated to my two amazing girls. The lyrics start with:
Welcome home, glad you’re here.
It’s a fragile world but have no fear.
I will love you all that I can.
Look up at me, squeeze my hand…
Enjoy.
Lovely pick of songs, thank you so much. I have added some of my own…love Feist and so also added Mushaboom. Van Morrison- Sweet Thing. Billy Joel- She’s always a woman (cos we need to celebrate US too). Stevie Wonder- signed sealed delivered. Bob Marley 3 Little Birds (3 is the magic no. in our case!) Xxx
Great list….add “safe and sound”–capital cities and “I’ll be there” by M.Jackson.
I love Safe and Sound. It was our intro song at our wedding. Addictive song lol
I love this playlist. I would definitly add Take your time girl from Niels Geusebroek. I dont think you know it but it was a hit here in the netherlands and the melody is to the heartbeat of an unborn baby.
Will definitely use most of these songs in my upcoming baby shower this Friday, wish me luck!! Thank you so much! Love from Egypt :)))
Teach your children by Crosby Stills and Nash. Have to add it for nostalgias sake it’s one of my faves. Lullabye baby blues by Keb Mo and maybe even you are my sunshine, I know it’s a bit over the top ridiculousness but admit it, everyone hums along ….
What a Wonderful World – any version really. :)
I love “my girl” and Butterfly kisses
through my daughters eyes
I love the lyrics to a song called Baby Bundle. I can not seem to find the song or lyrics anywhere. I appreciate your help!
Thank you so much !
Awesome list thanks sooooo much!!!!
Love the playlist!! Another good one is When We Were Young by Lucy Schwartz.
The Story…Brandi Carlile.
You are my Sunshine by Morgan Stapleton featuring Chris Stapleton.
Thank you!! Incredible playlist!!
SweetLife by Paul Davis
This is such a great playlist, especially with the additions everyone made in the comments! I’d also add Danny’s Song (Loggins and Messina). :)
“Baby Love” and “Sweet Child of Mine”
Thank you for taking the time to create this! It was an overwhelming task to create my own playlist but found this and it’s perfect!