Historic Sheet Music Collection
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Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_cradle-song_ernestine-schumann-heink-alexander-macfadyen_gbia0036461a https://archive.org/details/78_cradle-song_frank-sinatra-brahms-axel-stordahl_gbia0019569b
https://archive.org/details/78_cradle-song_glenn-miller-and-his-orchestra-h.g.-chapman-j.-brahms-ray-eberlo_gbia0001154b
https://archive.org/details/78_cradle-song_laura-littlefield-brahms_gbia0015543a
https://archive.org/details/78_cradle-song-brahms-op.-49-no.-4_rosa-ponselle-brahms_gbia0005361a
https://archive.org/details/78_cradle-song-wiegenlied_lotte-lehmann-paul-ulanowsky-brahms_gbia0014980a
https://archive.org/details/78_cradle-song-wiegenlied_michele-rinaldi-brahms-vessellas-italian-band_gbia0016238b
https://archive.org/details/78_cradle-song-1915_john-mccormack-alice-mattullath-fritz-kreisler_gbia0017800a
https://archive.org/details/78_1-cradle-song-2-waltz-in-a-flat_boston-pops-orchestra-brahms-g-h-lovett-smith_gbia0033092a
Publication Date
1893
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Oh, lullaby, my baby. The bee has gone to sleep;
The dew is on the clover, and peace is on the deep
While Mother sings above thee a little slumber song
And prays beneath her singing,
“God save my babe from wrong”
[Chorus]
Sleep, Sleep, Sleep, my baby,
Sleep, Sleep, baby Sleep.
[Verse 2]
Oh, lullaby, my baby.
The starts shine over head;
To light the way of angel who come about thy bed
To keep their watch above thee until the morning breaks,
And from the dreams they brought
My little darling wakes
[to Chorus]
Oh, lullaby, my baby dear,
Take thou this good night kiss,
And may it tell the darling what love a mother’s is
Take thou this kiss to dream of while I breath a prayer;
That God, Who gave, shall have thee forever in his care.
[to Chorus]
Recommended Citation
Rexford, Eben E. and Vannah, kate, "Cradle Song" (1893). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 240.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/240
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Words by Eben E. Rexford
Music by Kate Vannah
Boston (178 Tremont St.): Louis H. Ross & Company
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