An Old Cradle Song (Henry Walford Davies)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-09). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 332 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: An Old Cradle Song
Composer: Henry Walford Davies
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Nursery-rhyme
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1909 Chappell & Co.
Description: Eight Nursery Rhymes (set 2) Op. 23 No. 7.
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Original text and translations
English text
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Our cottage vale is deep.
The little lamb is on the green
With woolly fleece, so soft and clean.
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Down where the woodbines creep.
Be always like the lamb so mild,
A kind and sweet and gentle child.
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Sleep!