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Text:Slumber Song
Author:Anonymous
Tune:[Sleep, baby, sleep! Sleep, dar­ling, sleep!]
Composer:Francis Lee Robertshaw
Media:MIDI file

16045. Slumber Song

1 Sleep, baby, sleep! Sleep, dar­ling, sleep!
Gently close thy laugh­ing eye,
Night is droop­ing from the sky,
Sleep, baby, sleep! Sleep, darling, sleep!

2 Sleep, baby, sleep! Sleep, dar­ling, sleep!
Birds within their shel­tered nest
Now are seek­ing downy rest;
Sleep, baby, sleep! Sleep, dar­ling, sleep!

3 Sleep, baby, sleep! Sleep, dar­ling, sleep!
Flocks are si­lent in the field,
Roving winds to slum­ber yield;
Sleep, baby, sleep! Sleep, dar­ling, sleep!

4 Sleep, baby, sleep! Sleep, dar­ling, sleep!
One there is who watch­es still,
He will guard thy life from ill;
Sleep, baby, sleep! Sleep, darl­ing, sleep!

Text Information
First Line: Sleep, baby, sleep! Sleep, dar­ling, sleep!
Title: Slumber Song
Author: Anonymous
Language: English
Source: Great Revival Hymns by Homer Rodeheaver, Bentley Ackley, William E. Biederwolf and John B. Herbert (Chicago: Hope Publishing Company, 1911)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: [Sleep, baby, sleep! Sleep, dar­ling, sleep!]
Composer: Francis Lee Robertshaw
Key: F Major or modal
Copyright: Public Domain



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