The lori is the lullaby and it is the first Punjabi most Punjabis hear.
The repertoire is small, repetitive and largely improvised around fixed phrases, and it is sung by mothers and grandmothers with the child on a manji or in a cloth swing hung from a beam.
The subjects are the child's future, the absent father, the wealth the family does not have, and in a great many of them the daughter's eventual departure.
Alongside them are the sohile sung at a birth and the songs sung at the first haircut and the first solid food, each with its own occasion.
This is the least recorded body of Punjabi music in existence, because it is sung by one person to one person in a room, and it is disappearing without anyone noticing, replaced by whatever is playing.
Recording a grandmother singing what she sang to her children would take five minutes and almost nobody has done it.
The lori is sung by the mother and the grandmother, improvised on a small set of tunes, with the child's name worked into it.
The words are often not about sleep. They are about the family, the village, what the child will become, and sometimes about the singer's own situation, which makes them a record of what women said when nobody was writing it down.
Almost none of it has been collected. The tunes are shared across the region and the words are made in the room.