Piranha Plant's Lullaby

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"Piranha Plant's Lullaby"
"Piranha Plant's Lullaby" in Super Mario 64
The image for "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" from Super Mario 64 on Nintendo Music.
Image from Nintendo Music
Composed by:
Koji Kondo
Key G major
BPM 128.36
Time signature(s) 3
4
First appearance Super Mario 64 (1996)
Latest appearance Hello, Mario! (2025)

"Piranha Plant's Lullaby"[1][2] is a musical theme composed by Koji Kondo for Super Mario 64, where it plays when standing next to a sleeping Piranha Plant in Whomp's Fortress. In the game's Nintendo DS remake, Super Mario 64 DS, it also plays in the Which Wiggler? minigame.

Reuses[edit]

The following list does not include ports or remakes of Super Mario 64.

Work Description
New Super Mario Bros. As with Super Mario 64 DS, "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" plays in the Which Wiggler? minigame.
Minecraft "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" is one of the several themes that can play in the Super Mario Mash-Up Pack.
LINE The Talking Super Mario Animated Stickers set features an excerpt of "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" that plays over a sticker of a sleeping Piranha Plant.

Arrangements[edit]

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Super Mario 64 Original Soundtrack[edit]

The Super Mario 64 Original Soundtrack album features an additional piano arrangement of "Piranha Plant's Lullaby," known as "Piranha Plant's Lullaby – Piano."

Nintendo Sound Selection Vol.1: Healing Music[edit]

The Nintendo Sound Selection Vol.1: Healing Music compilation album features a live arrangement of "Piranha Plant's Lullaby", featuring Koji Kondo on cello and Asuka Hayazaki on piano.

Super Nintendo World[edit]

At the Super Nintendo World theme park, an arrangement of "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" plays in the Piranha Plant Nap Mishap activity when no player is currently participating in the activity.

Pikmin 4[edit]

In Pikmin 4, the Mechanical Harp (Lullabies) treasure plays a music box arrangement of "Piranha Plant's Lullaby."

Mario Kart World[edit]

In Mario Kart World, an arrangement of "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" can play in Free Roam.

Hello, Mario![edit]

In Hello, Mario!, an arrangement of "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" plays after ten minutes of playing, when Mario has fallen asleep. A full arrangement exists in the files, but fades out after about a minute in-game before the player is told to restart.

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Gallery[edit]

List of Super Mario appearances[edit]

Games[edit]

Work System Year Type Title Credits
Super Mario 64 Nintendo 64 1996 Original "Piranha Plant's Lullaby"[2] Koji Kondo
Super Mario 64 DS Nintendo DS 2004 Original "Piranha Plant's Lullaby"[2] Koji Kondo
New Super Mario Bros. Nintendo DS 2006 Original Koji Kondo
Minecraft: Wii U Edition Wii U 2015 Original Koji Kondo
Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition Nintendo Switch 2017 Original Koji Kondo
Minecraft: New Nintendo 3DS Edition New Nintendo 3DS 2017 Original Koji Kondo
Minecraft Nintendo Switch 2018 Original Koji Kondo
Super Mario 3D All-Stars Nintendo Switch 2020 Original "Piranha Plant's Lullaby"[2] Koji Kondo
Mario Kart World Nintendo Switch 2 2025 Arrangement
Hello, Mario! Mobile/Nintendo Switch 2025 Arrangement

Albums[edit]

Work Year Type Title Credits
Super Mario 64 Original Soundtrack 1996 Original "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" Koji Kondo
Arrangement "Piranha Plant's Lullaby – Piano"
Nintendo Sound Selection Vol.1: Healing Music 2003 Original 「パックンフラワーの子守唄」(pakkun furawā no komori-uta) Koji Kondo
Arrangement

Other media[edit]

Work Year Type Title Credits
LINE 2016[3] Original Koji Kondo
Super Nintendo World 2021 Arrangement

References[edit]

  1. ^ Nintendo Music
  2. ^ a b c d Super Mario 64 Original Soundtrack
  3. ^ Sickr (January 28, 2016). Super Mario Stickers For LINE Messaging App Now Available For $1.99. My Nintendo News (English). Retrieved September 8, 2024.
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Recurring themes and sound effects
Donkey Kong franchise Donkey Kong "Game Start" • "Hammer BGM" • "Round 1 BGM" • "Round Start BGM" • "Title BGM"
Donkey Kong Jr. "Game Start" • "Round 1 BGM" • "Title BGM"
Donkey Kong Country "Aquatic Ambiance" • "Bonus Room Blitz" • "Cave Dweller Concert" • "Cranky's Theme" • "The Credits Concerto" • "DK Island Swing" • "Fear Factory" • "Forest Frenzy" • "Funky's Fugue" • "Gang-Plank Galleon" • "Ice Cave Chant" • "Life in the Mines" • "Lost a Balloon" • "Mine Cart Madness" • "Northern Hemispheres" • "Simian Segue" • "Treetop Rock" • "Voices of the Temple" • "Well Done"
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest "Crocodile Cacophony (K. Rool's Theme)" • "Lockjaw's Saga (Lockjaw's Locker)" • "Run, Rambi! Run! (Parrot Chute Panic)" • "Stickerbush Symphony (Bramble Blast)"
Donkey Kong 64 "DK Isle" • "DK Rap"
Donkey Kong Country Returns "Mine Menace"
Mario Bros. series Mario Bros. "Game Start" • "Title BGM"
Wrecking Crew series Wrecking Crew "Bonus Phase" • "Golden Hammer" • "Phase BGM"
Super Mario series Super Mario Bros. "1-Up" • "Castle BGM" • "Coin" • "Course Clear" ("Power Up") • "Ending" • "Ground BGM" ("Game Over" · "Player Down") • "Invincibility BGM" • "Pause" • "Pipe Travel / Power-Down" • "Timer Warning" • "Underground BGM" • "Underwater BGM" • "World Clear"
VS. Super Mario Bros. "Gyōmu-yō Mario Namae-ire"
Super Mario Bros. 2 "Boss BGM" • "Ground BGM" • "Please Select Player" • "Underground BGM"
Super Mario Bros. 3 "Airship BGM" • "Athletic BGM" • "Bros. Battle" • "Ending" • "Fortress BGM" • "Fortress Boss" • "Game Over" • "Ground BGM" • "King of the Koopas" • "Music Box" • "P Switch BGM / Toad's House" • "Player Down" • "Slot Game BGM / Memory Game BGM" • "Underwater BGM" • "Warp Zone" • "World 1 Map (Grass Land)" • "World 2 Map (Desert Land)" • "World 3 Map (Water Land)" • "World 4 Map (Giant Land)" • "World 5 Map (Sky Land) - On the Ground" • "World 5 Map (Sky Land) - In the Sky" • "World 6 Map (Ice Land)" • "World 7 Map (Pipe Land)" • "World 8 Map (Dark Land)"
Super Mario Land "Chai Kingdom BGM" • "Main Theme" • "Underground Theme"
Super Mario World "Bowser BGM" • "Donut Plains (Map Screen)" • "Ending" • "Ground BGM" ("Athletic BGM" · "Bonus Game BGM" · "Castle BGM" · "Course Clear" · "Ghost House BGM" · "Underground BGM" · "Underwater BGM") • "Koopalings BGM" • "P Switch BGM" • "Star World (Map Screen)" • "Title BGM" • "Vanilla Dome (Map Screen)" • "Yoshi ni noru toki" • "Yoshi's Island (Map Screen)"
Super Mario 64 "Bowser's Road" • "Bowser's Theme" • "Dire, Dire Docks" • "File Select" • "Main Theme" ("Cool, Cool Mountain" · "Course Clear" · "Slider") • "The Merry-Go-Round" • "Metal Mario" • "Peach's Castle" • "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" • "Staff Roll" • "Star Catch Fanfare"
Super Mario Sunshine "Isle Delfino" ("Ricco Harbor") • "Secret Course"
New Super Mario Bros. "Course Clear" • "Fortress Theme" • "Main Theme" ("Athletic Theme") • "Mega Mario" • "Paah" • "Switch On!"
Super Mario Galaxy "Buoy Base Galaxy" • "Egg Planet" • "Enter Bowser Jr.!" • "Gusty Garden Galaxy" • "Luma" • "Overture" • "Purple Comet" • "Rosalina in the Observatory" • "The Toad Brigade" • "Waltz of the Boos"
New Super Mario Bros. Wii "Bonus Area" • "Castle Theme" • "Coast Theme" • "Desert Theme" • "Forest Theme" • "Ghost House Theme" • "Lava Cave / Underground Ruins Theme" • "Lava Theme" • "Title Theme" ("Game Over") • "Toad House Minigame" • "Underwater Theme"
Super Mario Galaxy 2 "Bowser's Galaxy Generator" • "Puzzle Plank Galaxy" • "Slimy Spring Galaxy" • "Super Mario Galaxy 2 Trailer Theme" • "Teleporter Melody"
Super Mario 3D Land "Castle Theme" • "Main Theme" • "Snow Course" • "Underwater Theme"
New Super Mario Bros. U "Ground Theme"
Super Mario 3D World "A Boss Approaches" • "Chainlink Charge" • "Piranha Creeper Creek" • "Super Bell Hill"
Super Mario Maker "Title Theme"
Super Mario Odyssey "Fossil Falls" • "Jump Up, Super Star!"
Dr. Mario series Dr. Mario "Chill" • "Fever" • "Game Over" • "Selection Screen" • "Title Screen"
Mario Kart series Super Mario Kart "Awards Ceremony (1st – 3rd Place)" • "Donut Plains" • "Mario Circuit" • "Rainbow Road" • "Super Mario Kart Title Screen"
Mario Kart 64 "Battle Arenas" • "Choco Mountain" • "D.K.'s Jungle Parkway" • "Frappe Snowland" • "Kalimari Desert" • "Koopa Troopa Beach" • "Luigi Raceway" • "Moo Moo Farm" • "Rainbow Road" • "Results (1st − 4th Place)" • "Staff Credits" • "Starting Grid (Time Trials / Battle)" • "Toad's Turnpike"
Mario Kart: Super Circuit "Koopa Castle Course" • "GBA Mario Circuit"
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! "GCN Baby Park" • "Mario Circuit" • "Peach Beach"
Mario Kart DS "DS Peach Gardens" • "Waluigi Pinball"
Mario Kart Wii "Coconut Mall" • "Luigi Circuit/Mario Circuit" • "Wii Maple Treeway" • "Moo Moo Meadows" • "Mushroom Gorge" • "Wario's Gold Mine"
Mario Kart 7 "Neo Bowser City" • "Piranha Plant Slide" • "Rainbow Road" • "Toad Circuit"
Mario Kart 8 "Cloudtop Cruise"
Yoshi franchise Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island "Athletic BGM" • "Bowser" • "Flower Field BGM" • "Opening Melody" • "Powerful Mario" • "Stage Start" • "Yoshi's Island"
Yoshi's Story "Yoshi's Song" ("Yoshis on the Beach") • "Yoshi's Story!" • "Yoshi's Tale"
Luigi's Mansion series Luigi's Mansion "Title Theme (Humming)"
Wario franchise WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! "Drifting Away" • "Pyoro" • "WarioWare, Inc." ("Dr. Crygor")
WarioWare: Twisted! "Mona Pizza"
WarioWare: Touched! "Ashley's Theme"
Mario vs. Donkey Kong series Mario vs. Donkey Kong "Mini Mario Stage"
Super Smash Bros. series Super Smash Bros. Melee "Rainbow Cruise"
Other The Legend of Zelda "Important Item Acquired" • "Magic Whistle Melody" • "Overworld Theme"
Mario Paint "Drawing Board 1" • "Gnat Attack: Level 1" • "Save & Load"
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars "Beware of Forest Mushrooms" • "Hello, Happy Kingdom"
Miscellaneous "Le Galop infernal d'Orphée aux Enfers" • "Totakeke's theme"
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Super Mario 64 / Super Mario 64 DS
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Locations First floor and mezzanine Bob-omb Battlefield • Whomp's Fortress • Jolly Roger Bay • Cool, Cool Mountain • Bowser in the Dark World • The Princess's Secret Slide • The Secret Aquarium • Tower of the Wing Cap • Sunshine Islesc • Goomboss Battlec
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Other Castle Grounds • Mushroom Castle • Princess's room • Courtyard • Rec Roomc • Switching roomsc
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Gameplay elements Completion • Letter • Mario's face • Missions • Power Meter • Slide • Switch Cap Course
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Mario Bounce and Pounce • Bounce and Trounce • Connect the Characters • Mario's Slides • Shell Smash • Shuffle Shell • Sort or 'Splode • Trampoline Terror • Trampoline Time
Wario Bingo Ball • Bob-omb Squad • Coincentration • Giant Snowball Slalom • Intense Coincentration • Lakitu Launch • Psyche Out! • Slots Shot • Snowball Slalom
Yoshi Boom Box • Hide and Boo Seek • Loves Me...? • Mix-a-Mug • Puzzle Panel • Puzzle Panic • Tox Box Shuffle • Wanted! • Which Wiggler?
Music "Bowser's Road" • "Bowser's Theme" • "Dire, Dire Docks" • "File Select" • "Main Theme" ("Cool, Cool Mountain" · "Slider") • "The Merry-Go-Round" • "Metal Mario" • "Peach's Castle" • "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" • "Staff Roll" • "Toad's Message"
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a Exclusive to Super Mario 64
b Present in both games, but has different roles in each
c Exclusive to Super Mario 64 DS
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