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  • I love you Nina. You were the perfect dog my baby girl.

  • when my dad passed away I listened to whatever was last played on his CD player. when it came to this song, it started to play on repeat. I had never heard the song, but it is now one of my favorites!! I know he's with me, looking out for me, always loving me! It's been 6yrs...but it still feels like yesterday. I love you, Daddy... thank you for our song!

  • Sang every night for my son since the day he was born, Thank You Mr. Joel.

  • love his music, so beautiful & haunting..

  • Billy joel has truly been touched by god.. and for all u atheists.... Billy joel is truly talented

  • @trueghostassassin i read on wikipedia billy joel himself was an atheist

  • nice video! :)

  • There is a song called Bedside Lullaby by a band called Vintage Roulette that is very similar to this. I really enjoyed it, although you simply can't out do Billy Joel. Both great songs though!

  • my father and i never really had a good relationship, im the oldest of eight, he showed me this song one day and then he said to me "i love you" nothing ever ment more to me in my life. We are better now and working hard to have a good father daughter relationship. When we have a rough day i listen to this song and remind myself that i am daddys girl. Im only 16 but i know this is my father daughter dance for my wedding and at the end i will say "i love you"

  • i've always wanted to dance with my father at my wedding to this song... for so many reasons

  • This is my Dad"s and I song

    

  • every night my father tucked me in to bed, he would hold me and sing this to me. HOW SPECIAL IS THAT?!? i'm extremely lucky to be able to have my father do this. i remembered most of the lyrics, and i've probably heard this song maybe twice since he stopped singing it to me. i get ticked off at my dad all the time, but you have to remember the special moments when you're upset. i think this is going on the favorite list.

    love you, Pop!

  • sigh...........

  • sighhhhh!

    

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  • im a divorced dad,and i dont get to see them as much as i want,so this song always reminds of them,and they know this is my song to them

  • I either want this song to play at my wedding, My funeral, or my Dad's funeral...

  • This reminds me so much of my Dad.... I haven't talked to him for a few months so when I heard this song I cried myself to sleep.....

  • 23 dislikes. They probably just meant that Michael Jordan likes this song.

  • This video shouldn't even have a dislike button. 

  • i love this song sooooooooo much it makes me feel so free and at peace

  • Such a peaceful song. I want to learn how to play it.

  • I loved this song when it first came out and now that I have 2 daughters it means even more. Billy is the best!

  • great song and are mens choir peice

  • 23 people don't have a sweetheart to sing this to. <3

  • there are some disturbed people out there who press the dislike button

  • The most beautiful lullabye I know of...well done

  • I always listen to this song five or six times right before I go to sleep, and I always seem to have pleasant dreams afterwards. :) So tell me, does it feel like he's singing to the listener, (despite the fact that he wrote it for his daughter when she was seven) or am I just crazy?

  • This song is perfect

  • i could hear this song until i die

  • Beautiful, simply and profoundly beautiful. A song that comes from the heart.

  • Goodnight, my angel. You'll always be apart of me. <3

  • Just what you want ..... stupid adverts ... when you are wanting to hear a comforting song when my sister killed herself. Thanks YouTube. Genuine thanks to the person that uploaded this song - lullabies go on just like me and my sis :o)) x

  • I've been listening to BIlly Joel since I was a kid and his music has been something that is constant to me and timeless. I think it has to do w/ his hard working blue collar ethic. I hope one day I'll get to see him perform live.

  • my marriage is all but over,and no matter how much i try and talk to him and work things out he just thinks of it harasment, the sad thing is that when i've gone with his daughter and it's too late for talking that this song will actually mean something to him

  • @geturgroovon I'm in the same situation as you. My wife won't even talk to me on the phone. She barely even talks via email anymore. Using her oldest daughter who's 14 (My stepdaughter) to talk to me via facebook. My marriage is ending all because I wanted to talk to my wife on the phone at least once a week (she lives on the east coast while I'm stationed out west). I feel your pain but I have to say that everything in life happens for a reason. With the end comes new beginnings.

  • OMG, this song and video always makes me cry. It is so sweet. It also reminds me of when my brother died - he liked this song and I think often shared it with his daughter. 

  • Typo: Father-Daughter.

  • I am so proud that Billy Joel is a Long-Islander and that I happened to live there from 10 -18 years of age. This song, and all that it means, is one of the most beautiful and relevant Father-Daugter songs of all time...

  • :')

  • I used to be in choir in high school when my teacher introduced me to this song. I lost my father the day of my freshman year of high school and this song was on repeat every night for a few months. Now if I ever play it I close my eyes and see him there watching me. Love you dad <3

  • ...i'll promise i'll sing this song to my child if i'll ever have them...every night!

  • i just...don't understand how could these 23 people not like this song! ...but who cares! this song is amazing and maybe amazing isn't the perfect world to desribe it...it's MORE!

  • What a beautiful song. I never knew this is what my father had played to me when I was young but as soon as I heard it, I knew all the words. This is my childhood.

  • I really like it ♥

  • we sang this in my high school a few years ago...it was so hard to not cry. it's a beautiful piece, especially in four part harmony.even remembering it now, watching...memories flood back, i sing along and I can honestly thank Billy Joel for bringing such a beautiful piece to the world.

  • it's impossible to hate an angel. I would hate him but I can not.

  • Daughters if you have a dad that you love alot than you have something in common with this song like me, but my dad works alot. Even though you barely see him or he died remember something he will always love you and care about you or he is watching you from above.

  • perfecta

  • Beautiful song!!! The best!!!

  • such a sweet song. on an unrelated note billy joel has a pug and that is awesome

  • Okay, I wish I could just stop at that. But daughters ALWAYS have a soft spot for their Dads. My Dad was really a working musician (guitarist/singer) . And I did wait and worry about him. I graduated from Oyster Bay High School in 1985.

  • And yes, I'm not from an "Emerald Bay", but from Oyster Bay----waiting for my dad to come home from his working musician (singing) job at 4 in the morning.

  • A father, tellling his beloved daughter how so very much he loves her---even though he hasn't been always able to tell her in quite the way that he wants to. This is the meaning of this song to me. I'm a "Daddy's Girl", and a daughter of a musician. This song breaks my heart...

  • Feel sleepy,

    Nice song like it... =P

  • john why 

  • this song is so underated

    

  • frist time i hear this song and i love it thank you

  • Can't wait to sing this to my baby someday...:)

  • @kingofbling16 I used to sing this to my two kids at bedtime. Now they are 19 and 21 and they still remember! It is a special bond I will always love!

  • Billy Joel 1 Cynics 0

  • We learned this song at my choir today, it was so beautiful I started crying

  • I fully intend on playing this song for my children

  • That chord change never fails to give me goosebumps.

  • Sometimes, all you need is a break. Even from the person you love the most.

    G'night, My Queen. Iloveyou.

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  • This is why YouTube needs a repeat button.

  • @MrAnonymous2470 they did but then google got rid of it

  • @MrAnonymous2470 it had one before google ruined it

  • @MrAnonymous2470 there i a repeat button

  • @Wapow27 But you have to click the repeat button each time. Back in the day many record players had a repeat button that created an endless play scenario. The same song or album would play over and over until you stopped it.

  • @kattatonic1 he asked for a repeat button, there is a repeat button it just isn't automatic :s

  • @MrAnonymous2470 put REPEAT after youtube in the URL and you'll have your repeat button :)

  • @MrAnonymous2470 If you look at the final screen that gives you suggestions, the repeat button is in the top left corner

  • BEAUTIFUL MUSIC,MY ANGEL GOOD NIGHT! THANK YOU BANTU LOVE MY GREAT FRIEND! ♥ BOA NOITE MEU ANJO,OBRIGADA POR ME ENVIAR ESTA LINDA MUSICA LINDA!! 11/12/2011

  • this song whas played on my little brothers funeral.

    Beautiful song.!!!

  • my middle name is angell and my ex used to sing this song to me when i couldnt sleep(: so cute. i love this song.

  • An Angel took me,Song about loss

  • This was written for his daughter which is very touching!!! LOVE IT!

  • I miss him so much

  • I love thi9s song, i played this song at my son furnel

  • @paintbrawl I am so sorry for your loss

  • what a beautiful song i wonder if he wrote this song?

  • @curvy71 Yup. He writes a good majority of his songs. He wrote it for his daughter.

  • @wickedwritersho thats so sweet

  • @wickedwritersho I think you'll find that he's written ALL of his songs, a couple of cover versions being the exception, and these were recorded after he'd finished writing

  • It's so beautiful!!! *cries*

  • Thumbs up if your crying right now.

  • Love this song !!

  • i mis my son...see you soon... ='(

  • i like this song, first time i hear this song from peter holland cover...

  • This song comforted me greatly when my mother passed away. I love it dearly.

  • 22 people were never hugged as a baby. :(

  • stanley i miss you dearly. good night my angel

  • Good night my angel, I'll always be a part of you

  • This reminds me of my God daughter :) The only wee life i will have any responsibility for :)

    My wee woman

  • my favorite Billy Joel song. This song, and the motion video are beautiful...makes me thing of my dad, who would have sung it to me, and my daughters, whom I'd sing it to...a beautiful song to pass on...simple, and conveys love. (Corny, I know, but who cares)

  • Its so beautiful!!! Thank you Billy

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  • I would just like to thank Billy for allowing total strangers to speak about their most treasured memories with loved ones, and the one's of loved ones who have sadly passed. I would also like to personally thank everyone who is sharing memories, as it makes the importance and beauty of this melody, even more special. I wish you all the very best from the bottom of my heart. Tori.

  • I cry like a baby whenever I hear this song. My high school sweetheart of four years used to wrap me in his arms and sing this song to me at night after he came back from his 18 month tour in Iraq. A battle with PTSD and depression claimed his life in 2007, but this song will always keep his memory alive for me. Miss you dearly, my Nickolai. I will sing this one to my future babies as well...

  • I wonder who are those 20 people who don't like this ?????

  • My mom used to always sing this to me. <3

  • I sang this with my middle school choir (still have the sheet music) and the lyrics and some of the tune stil stays in my head. It was in 6th or 7th grade that I sang this, and it was so beutiful that I still remember it, and it STILL makes me want to cry

  • Never heard this Billy Joel song before.

    It's beautiful!

  • I will sing this to my babies one day :) x

  • Such a beautiful song. I lost my own daughter when she was just 12 hours old and would give up my own life 4 her to have grown up and heard an explanation of death put in such a tender way. Top marks Billy.

  • Billy Joel is the most amazing singer/song writer in the world to me!

  • My daddy would sing this song to me when i was a baby.I still cry when i here this song! :(

  • thanks twilight

  • @JinitiCibis why?

  • @carriexoxkellie something..............

  • I sang this to my little sister the other night before bed. I could barely get through it without crying.

  • This will be my kids bed time song it's a wounderful song by billy joel

  • @dramaticallyawesome 19 people must be gingers then!

  • gives me that amazing feeling you get when your listening to an amazing song sung by an amazing person. and then i rape the replay button, cause its the good ind of chills <3

  • 19 people have no soul. There's nothing else to say about it.

  • i sang this to my son Joel when he was born and just love it

  • @GiuliaChopper Me tooo!

    

  • Brilliant as BJ is always - Im now retired after 30 years in the record industry (retired hurt as they say in cricket and its a bit terminal) - I worked with Elton for 13 years but still consider Billy the songwriter who appeals to me most - Elton in his DJM was just as brilliant but Billy never faltered contsistant all the way through. Anyway great track

  • this reminds me of my boyfriend...... <3

  • My mother used to sing this to me when i was young.... it means a lot to me.... she has a beautiful voice.... she cryed.... i didnt undestand but now i do.... memories shot back.... when my father left this is what comforted her... thank you... i might only be 13 but i will not forget this... thank you....

  • @aidenisthebest98 You sound like a very mature 13 yr old. Sounds like life experiences have made you that way. I too have experienced a lot at a young age (although I'm 28 now) I wanted to share this quote with you by Abraham Lincoln: "It's not the amount of years in your life that matter, it's the amount of life in your years." I always felt that quote described me...I have a lot of "life" in not a lot of years so far. God Bless you!

  • @aidenisthebest98 This was my song when my best friend Chip, left me, I had to put I put him down due to cancer. Beautiful song. Chip was an exceptional Lab. Stay strong, my friend.

  • @krysteen100 my yellow lab has cancer now, Beau is my best friend also. Things are not looking to good, I feel your pain. God bless you and Chip.

  • @aidenisthebest98 God bless you honey. Everything will be OK.

    There is much beauty and love and hope in this world. 

  • @aidenisthebest98 the night before my dad died i played this for him (he was a 1/2 step from comatose) a tear rolled down his cheek he passed the next night and the next morning as in this video seagulls hovered outside my kitchen window where seaguls are never seen....now i can't watch this video without crying and I am a grown man

  • @aidenisthebest98 Dot... Dot... Dot...

  • @aidenisthebest98

    dude when i read your comment i feel like i was also crying and now i listen to this song every night before sleeping and cry for you i cant listen to this song without crying and i don't know how tears come out of my eyes :'(

    Whats your name by the way

  • @aidenisthebest98 "Someday your child may cry and if you sing this lullaby, then in your heart he will always be a part of me." :)

  • I wanted this to be the last song of my wedding, but it was voted down...

  • You inspired me to write my own lullaby Billy...

    Thank you. It is called Leah's Lullaby...

  • I remember, when I was about 8 and still afraid of the dark, my mom got me a little stuffed porcupine. She would have me settle into bed with it, and then either sing or play a tape of a few different calming songs. This was one of the songs on the tape, and she would always get teary eyed when it came on. I listen to it now, only ten years later, and have the same reaction she had. I now know that I will play or sing this to my (eventual) kids quite a bit. I still have the animal somewhere.

  • I cant wait till I have a child so I can sing and play this for them every night

  • you'll always be wih us A.J! <3

  • simplemente hermosa,no tengo otro calificativo para esta obra.Grande billy joel.

  • this most beautiful song ive ever heard...hands down

  • how could such a great man, have such an asshole in his band, david brown, hes no one anymore, in his home town gloucester ma. they hate him, he was just an egotistiscal asshole,

  • Who could dislike this?!?!

  • I would test this theory with 'And So It Goes'. This is gorgeous too. Just discovered it. Bob Chilcott did a choral arrangement of And So It Goes - it's incredibly beautiful and haunting. This would work beautifully too.

  • @beckynahmad PS It makes me cry too!

  • I'm gonna sing this to my kids one day but i needa find a guy to be his daddy that will apperciate us.

    I'm using my bros account and no hes not gay.

  • oneday i will rocking to sleep my own son with this song...

    but first i need to find a woman to be his mother ... :)

    and she must love this song as much as i do ..

  • M,M,M...MMM

  • I remeber when Billy Joel first released this song and unfortunately my son was a bit old for lullabyes but I do sing this sweet song to my grandson now and thanks for reminding us what is important in our lives

  • I sang this as a bass in the Men's Chorus at my University 2 years ago: my fiance still requests it, and I graduated February 2011. Thinks it's a keeper/fan favorite. :)

  • Most people use this song as a special parent-child melody, but my boyfriend and I actually have this as our song. <3 So many of the lyric relate to our story personally. We were cuddling one night and he played this song while stroking my hair... It's such a beautiful memory.

  • my choirs singing this song =]

  • @jessiebookout Woah, so is mine o:

    DO WE GO TO THE SAME SCHOOL?

  • when my grandma died they played this at her funeral and ever since then whenver i hear this i get a tear in my eye

  • :( my german bf cant watch this

  • there are 18 tone deaf people out there

  • i started singing this song to my daughter the very first night she was born.She is turning 12 and still singing the same song.

  • J.J. is four months old now and I sing this song to him every night. Thank you for the comments everyone :)

  • Peaceful

  • ♂● Dreams are beautifuL part 0f Life & if y0u miss sLeep

    y0u miss a part 0f Life t0 enj0y. s0 g0 t0 bed & catch them` ;)

    Sweet Dreams & Go0d Night`❤..

  • ♂● Dreams are beautifuL part 0f Life & if y0u miss sLeep

    y0u miss a part 0f Life t0 enj0y. s0 g0 t0 bed & catch them` ;)

    Sweet Dreams & Go0d Night`❤..

  • My dad died when i was 4 years old, six days before my birthday. Since then I have dedicated this song to him. I cry everytime I hear it. I love you dad, babygirl misses you. <3

  • I'm watching this video as my son goes off to college for the first time today ... it never gets old ...

  • love this song! always hold your children and tell them how much you love them.. no matter how old they are.

  • fells so good.......

  • Memories are like pie; You can only taste them once, but you will always remember the flavor of it ;)

  • This I used to sing for my boy,when he was a baby,now he's 12.Time flies,but the memories are for a lifetime. One life to live,please live every moment of it,for there's no second chance. Peace n godspeed

  • It's sad how little views this has.

  • when i was little my daddy would dance with me to this song everynight before he tucked me in and when im sad i sing it. <3

  • My father used to sing this song to me at night....so then he bought a book of it one day. I tear up when it comes to the lyrics "i promised i would never leave you"...well my father broke his promise <|3 He left me and my family. Yet as bad as a father he was i still kept the book. This song is amazing and the artist is amazing <3

  • hermosisima cancion!